WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1933, Page 19 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

HOW TO MAKE A CARDIGAN COAT.

“An easily-made cardigan coat, please!“ writes a: Wendy girl, so this week we are telling you how to make one like Wendy wears. Hers .. is soft green woolly material, trimmed With wool stitching in daffodil, brown» ■ and orange, so you’ll know What colours to choose if you want to copy her 1 But of course, you’ll choose the shade that suits you, and goes with your other clothes. The cardigan takes from one-and-a-half to two yards of material, according to your size. Cut it out in paper first, and measure to see how much you’ll need. As you see .from the little dia-j grams, it is quite simple to. make—the back and front are cut in one, arid the sleeves are Straight pieces of material added at a low shoulder line, the ends being gathered into plain’ cuffs. Measure across the chest,. and from shoulder to just below your waist. Then cut a piece of paper six Inches Wider than-your.. chest-measurement, and twice, your shoulder-to-Waist depth. .’Fold widthways and lengthways, and, cut aS shown in the diagram. Scoop out a little curve at the top for the neck, 'then slant the shoulder, and cut out

the underarm curve down to the edge, as shown. The dotted line indicates where to cut the front pieces, to give the opening of the little coat. Tire Sleeves are straight pieces of material, long enough to reach from the shoulderseams to just above your wrists, and wide enough to fit nicely round your arms. The cuffs should be about three inches deep, and must fit your wrists closely. Having, cut all the different bits in paper, tack them together, and try on. Then you can quickly take in a little here, or let out a scrap there, till you’re satisfied with the fit. This done, pin the pattern pieces to the ma-terial-folded widthways and lengthways to correspond with the pattern—and cut out carefully, allowing otle-inch turnings On all seams. Sew the shoulder-seams together, then stitch on the two sleeves. Sew up the side seams of coat and sleeves, making a single row of stitching, and cut the raw edges in tiny V-shapes to prevent them fraying; this is known as “pinking.” Gather the sleeves into the cuffs and bind the two fronts, the neck, and the bottom of the coat with crossway strips of material. Make a belt to fit your waist, sew two big buttons on to the left edge of the coat-fr Ont at the bottom, and work two loops on the other front to correspond. Work round the coat, bell, shoulder joins and cuffs with three or four lines of different Coloured running-stitches, making the stitches about a quarter of an inch long and an eighth of an inch apart. Wendy’s Dressmaker,