WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 6 October 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

A KNITTED COT COVER. Someone would like to make a knitted, cover for her baby sister’s cot, so we have made a “model” which anyone can copy. We used up all the odd balls of four-ply wool in the basket pink, pale blue, and white—and they look very pretty together. Of course, you can use any colours you like, but two or three different ones give the best result. This cot-cover is made of squares of knitting, joined together in a chequer-

board design. Using a pair of number nine needles, cast on sixty stitches with, say, pale blue wool. Work in alternate rows of plain and purl until you have a square; then cast off. Make five more pale blue squares, and six pink squares. Sew the squares together in rows of three, arranging the colours alternately, chequer-board way. The top row will be pink, blue, pink; the next row, blue, pink, .blue; the next row, pink, blue, pink; then blue, pink, blue. Now, with a crochet hook,' work a plain doublecrochet border .in-white wool all round the oblong panel'which you have made. •Work three stitches into the stitch at each corner to turn round. With some penny skeins of embroidery wool in rather deeper colours—rose, powder-blue;' yellow and jade—work wee-flower posies oii the quilt, as shown in the picture. < . Press the cover slightly on the wrong side when finished. ’ The beauty of ■ this design is that you can have the cover, any ,size l ; you- like,, by making' the squafes eWf .bigger or smaller. ' ■ '

Wendy’s Dressmaker.