WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1933, Page 19 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

PRETTY EMBROIDERED TABLE MATS '.• ■ : . The table mats sketched are made of pale green linen, -embroidered with daisies, poppies, and buttercups, in stranded threads. You’ll need half a yard of linen to make a set of six place-mats and six smaller glass-mats. They can be round or square, as you prefer. I’ll tell you how to make round ones, but if you want to adapt the design for square mats, you’ll find it quite easy. For the larger mats, lay a plate, eight inches across, in one corner of the linen and outline it with a pencil. Pick up the plate, and make five more outlines. Outline the little glass-mats in

the same way, going round a cup, or small saucer, four inches across. Cut out the mats very carefully,' allowing a quarter of an inch extra all round, then turn in the edges and tack them. You will have to make wee pleats as you tack, to get round the curves. Button-hole-stitch round the edges with green stranded cotton, which costs only a penny or so a skein. . , j n When you have buttonhole-stitched all the mats you can begin the embroidery,Diagrams A, B and C show a daisy, a poppy, an d a buttercup, and you must draw' a little posy of all three flowers on to each mat. You’ll find it quite easy if you make the drawings on paper, then trace them on to the mats over' carbon paper. Work them in natural colours —white daisies with yellow centres, yellow buttercups, and scarlet poppies with black centres. The leaves are deep green. Wendy’s Dressmaker.THIS WEEK’S BEST LETTER. A STARLING STORY. Dear Wendy,—l had such a lovely birthday last Saturday. I belong to the .Wellington Radio Circle and when it was my call I got some pretty crayons. Cliff got 12 pretty marbles for being a good boy. That is one of our rules and the others are—to .be kind to animals and to look both ways before crossing the road. I must not forget to thank you for- my card; I -have now four. cards and all coloured differently. There are two' starlings building in our shed; the daddy one brings lots.of straw and the mummy one builds the nest. One day we saw them quarrel because he brought the wrong kind of straw. Have we not had lots of frosts lately? ■ . • ■ With best love to all at the Hut, “Yellow Hammer.” (Melva Reynolds, Oaonui.) THE FLYING SHUTTLE. Two hundred years ago John Kay, of Bury, in Lancashire, invented the fly shuttle, and cotton workers all over the North will do him honour this year. No wonder the industry is grateful, for to throw the heavy old shuttle by hand was dangerous, slow and none too sure. Many good pieces were ruined by inexpert workers, with the inevitable trouble between trembling operative and harassed, truculent overlooker. Now the fly shuttle is part of a deft machine, and the worker can produce more and finer cloth’under far happier conditions John Kay’s little invention helped to make Lancashire great.