WENDY'S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY'S DRESSMAKERS

BOLSTER . CUSHION FOR THE SOFA. Our “special request” this week is for a bolster cushion to go on a sofa. It has come at a very good time, because Tink .has just made such a cushion for Wendy’s sitting-room, and she is so proud of herself that she is longing to tell you about it! One yard of forty-eight-inch wide casement cloth will be enough materia) to buy, and of course you will choose a colour to go with the room, won’t you? If ypu would rather havo an. artificial silk cushion, you will need a yard and a half of thirty-inch-wide material. _ Make an inner case for the stuffing, So that the nice outer cover can be removed at any time for cleaning. The inner and outer cases are made in the same way, so instructions for one will do for both. Of course, the outer is decorated, while the inner case is left plain. Cut two circles of lining-material ten inches in diameter, and then cut a strip of material to go round the circles

—you will find that the measurement Is thirty-four inches. The strip . should be twenty-seven inches long. Join one end of the strip to one circle, making a hem of about half an inch.. Diagram A shows this part of the work in progress; When you have sewn round the circle, do the same with the other side, then join the two long edges of the strip together, leaving aTfew inches' unsewn, so that you can turn the case, right side out Fill it with, “kapok,” small pieces of cut-up rag, or whatever you have for the Stuffing, ."taking . care .to. pack the filling well into, each end, and sew up the open edges neatly. _ Make the. outer, case in exactly the same way. Tink trimmed hers, (which was made of deep blue cloth), wi. • bands of orange and green wool-braid, wn on with contrasting wools. If you ■sould like to do the same, buy two yards of braid in each shade and two penny skeins of wool, in royal ana cherry. Cut the braids in halves, and tack them on the strip of material before you join this to the circles. Then sew them down with herringbone stitching using the royal wool for the orange braid, the cherry for the green. Diagrams B and C explain how you tack on the braids, and how you do the herringbone stitch, which is worked from left to right. When you have stitched all four braids, remove . .the tacking threads, and sew the strip to the circles, as explained for tne inner Big tassels, made from blue and cherry wool, look fine dangling from crochet chain cords, at the ends of the cushion, as shown in the sketch. Wendy’s Dressmaker.