WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 4 August 1934, Page 9 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

A BATHING DRESS. Would you like to knit a bathing-suit, all ready for the next holiday? If so, just follow these instructions, which are given in answer to a Tinkite’s “extraspecial request!” You will need about eight ounces of four-ply wool in one colour for the suit, and one ounce in a contrasting shade for trimming. (Tink’s suit, which she has just finished, is navy»blue, trimmed with cherry, and it looks very gay and smart!) You will also need a pair of number twelve needles, and a pair of number nine needles. Start with the right leg, using red wool, and small needles. Cast on forty stitches, and knit twelve rows in a twoplain, two-purl rib. Change to navy wool, and big needles, and knit in stock-ing-stitch for three-and-a-half inches. Increase at the inside end of every knit row by working into the front and back of the last stitch, but work. the -purl rows plain. When yoa have done three-and-a-half inches, put the right leg piece on a stitch-holder for the time being. Knit the left leg to ■ match, and, when you have done three-and-a-half inches of this, join the right' leg to the left by knitting the stitches off the stitch-holder on to the needle. Be care-

tiititiiiiiiiiiiiiutiiiiHiifiititiiiiiitiiniiitiiitiMiininiitiHitiniii ful to get the pieces joined with the inner increased edges facing each other. Knit in stocking-stitch for about ten inches, which brings you to the waist. Change to the red wool and small needles, and vzork a two-inch band of ribbing to match the leg edges. Now go back to the navy wool and number nine needles, and knit nine inches for the bodice. Then with the right side uppermost, knit fourteen stitches, cast off till you have fourteen left, and knit these last stitches. Continue knitting on the second set of fourteen stitches for three inches, then cast them off and break off the wool. Now go back to the first set of fourteen stitches, and knit three inches to match. Cast off, and the front is finished. Knit the back in exactly the same way, until you reach the red waist-ribbing. Then do three inches of navy stockingstitch instead of nine inches, and make each back shoulder strap (on the fourteen stitches each side) twelve inches long. Decrease the last few rows by working the first two and last two stitches together,' which will make the straps end in a point. Next make a square of stocking-stitch for the little gusset. To do this, cast on twenty-two stitches, and knit in stocking-stitch till you’ve got a square with sides about three-and-a-half inches long.

Press all the pieces of knitting. Join the side seams, stopping six inches from the top of the front shoulder straps. Join the ribbed parts of the legs, and stitch the gusset between. Sew a button on the top of each front strap, and make a buttonhole in each back strap by pushing a pencil through the middle stitch of a strap-point to make a hole and buttonhole-stitching round it in red wool. Finally, work two rows of double crochet in red round the arm-holes and round the back and front of the bodice. Wendy’s Dressmaker.

RAISIN TOFFEE.

(Sent by Margaret Jennings.) Two breakfast cups of sugar, two tablespoons of water, two large tablespoons of vinegar, butter the size of a large walnut. Put all together in a saucepan over the fire, and boil quickly, stirring all the time. Try a little in cold water till it crisps. Pour into buttered plates, and stick raisins well into it