KNITTING CORNER

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)

KNITTING CORNER

A “SUN-KAY” CUSHION. This round cushion is so easily knitted and so fascinating to make. I imagine how- nice one would look, perhaps in green and heliotrope colours, in a chair in the garder. these sunny days! It would be such a nice Christmas box for mummy, too; “Sectional colour” means the colour, or colours, which forms those V-shaped pieces like sun’s rays and the “dividing” colour the one which divides one colour from another and which is almost always black, as that shows up other colours to great advantage. You may cast on any number of stitches divisible by three, but in this case we cast on 48 stitches in dividing colour, that is the black. *K. 2 rows. Join sectional colour (the bright one). K. 3 turn and knit back. K. 6 turn and knit back. K. 9 turn and knit back. K. 12 turn and knit back. Continue taking 3 extra stitches each row until all dividing colour is worked off the needle. Turn and knit back * Repeat from ♦ to * 15 times more, making all joins at the outer- edge. You. may knit the second side the same or merely knit it in plain wool. Cast on 13 stitches for the band and knit length required. Join both sides to the band, and finish centre of cushion with wool-covered button.

' THE KING’S 900 CLOCKS. Whenever the King appears at some public function notice of the time is issued beforehand, and his Majesty is there to the minute. We now realise how such punctuality is ensured, for a staff of clock-cleaners has been attending to the clocks of Windsor Castle. Here are 360 clocks; Buckingham Palace has 160; Sandringham perhaps as many; and Balmoral has 250- . All these timekeepers must say the same thing to a second. We are so used to the King’s punctuality that we take it as a matter of course rather than as evidence of the King’s courtesy to his people; but we appreciate it the more when we cross the water and find ourselves wearily waiting for something to begin.