WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 13 April 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

EMBROIDERED CUSHION COVERS. A Tinkite wants to make some pretty cushion-covers, so this week we will tell you how to make one like those we have in the Hut sitting-room. You will need one yard of eighteeninch crash for each cover, and a scrap of blue linen for the' bowl that decorates it. An eight-inch square of crimson felt for the tulips, one of bright green the same same size for the leaves, and skeins of white, bright green, and blue embroidery wools will complete your list of requirements. The cover is trimmed with a gay bowl of tulips, and diagram A gives you a clear idea of the design. Draw it on a sheet of paper first. The bowl is three inches deep, three inches wide across the bottom, and six inches wide across the top. Each tulip is about two and a half inches high and one and a half inches across at the widest part. The leaves vary from two to three inches In height, and are roughly one inch across at their widest. Having drawn out the design, fold the crash in halves with the fold along the top, so that you have a square 'with sides eighteen inches long. Trace the decoration. on the top fold. Arrange it so that the bottom of the bowl is about four inches up from the lower edge of the crash, and transfer the design by laying a piece of carbon paper beneath the tracing, with the. shiny side facing the material. Go over all the lines with a sharp point and when you remove the papers you will have a clear outline drawing on the crash. Now trace the bowl-shape on to the blue linen, cut out, and tack in position on the traced outline. Buttonholestitch it down with the blue wool, then work little satin-stitch spots all over in white wool. This will give a blue china bowl spotted with white. Cut out four tulips from the red felt. You can do by cutting out one of the tulips from the tracing and using this as a. pattern. Tack each one

ydiniiniiiiitniiHniHiiuftiHiniiiHiiHiminiiiiniiHiniiniini' in position on the crash. Do the same with. the , leaves, 1 and oversew both flowers and leaves, using tiny stitches in matching cotton, as shown in. diagram B. When this is finished, embroider the flower-stalks with two rows of .green wool stem-stitfeh. Finally, rule a pair of parallel lines, one inch apart and twelve inches long, at the base of the bowl, and fill this space with rows of stemstitching in green. This completes the embroidery, which you must press well under a damp clotn with a hot iron. Make up the cushioncover in the usual way. .. , ‘ Wendy’s Dressmaker.