WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 19 January 1935, Page 17 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

A PRETTY NIGHTDRESS-CASE. Here is another “special request” birthday £tegent. A Tinkite wants to make a pretty nightdress-case for her big sister. We hope she will be pleased wjth the one that Goblin Artist has sketched here. It is rather a nipe pase, because, when the nightdress is plumped up inside, the round sachet looks like a pretty little decorated pillow as it lies on the coverlet. To make it, you need two circles of pale blue or pale green linen, each one twelve inches across, one-and-a-half yards of bright green bias-binding, a scrap of bright green linen for the lilyleaf applique, a scrap of white for the lily, and penny skeins of stranded embroidery cotton, in these colours—white, bright green, and gold. Take the circle that is to be the back Of the sachet and cut a slit right across the middle; then bind the two edges with bias binding, and put the circle on one side for the time being. Take the front circle, and draw a lily and a leaf on it. You will find this quite easy if you draw it on paper first, and then transfer it to the material by placing your drawing over a piece of red carbon-paper, going over the lines with a sharp point.' Diagram A shows the approximate size of the lily outline. Draw an oval to these measurements, then draw in the pointed lily petals. When it is traced on the background, .use the drawing as a pattern on the traced outline; do the leaf in the same way (this measures about four inches wide, and two-and-a-half inches deep at the widest part), and tack that in place, too. Buttonhole the lily down with four, strands of white cotton in the needle, and work the front

petal in stem-stitch. The stamens are worked in yellow thread. Buttonhole the leaf down with bright green cotton, and work the veins in stem-stitch. The stalk of the bud is in green satin-stiten, and the bud itself is a small oval of white linen two inches deep and one inch wide, buttonholed down with whitethread. Diagram B shows the buttonholing jn progress. > Diagram C shows you how the embroidered motif should look when finished. Press it well under a wet cloth with a hot iron. Now lay the front circle on top of the back one. Bind the two together with green bias binding and the case is finished. The little drawing shows you how the back of the finished case should look. The nightdress which it is to hold is slipped through the bound slit that was made' first of all. A small case, made in exactly the same way, but only about eight inches across, would make a pretty handkerchief sachet, wouldn’t it? Wendy’s Dressmaker.