WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 1 June 1935, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

TWO r’.IETTY PINCUSHIONS. A pretty pin-cushion is the special re-, quest this Week, and we hope you will “like the; two that Gdblin Artist has sketched for you. Besides being useful, either will make a gay ornament for the dressing-table. THE FRUIT BASKET. To make the basket of fruit you will need an oddment of orange casement cloth, a yard of green ribbon one inch wide, some black embroidery cotton, cotton-wool for stuffing, some yellowwool, and a piece about ten inches wide and three-and-a-half inches deep cut from a woven raffia shopping-basket. Make the basket, first. Cut a circle of cardboard three inches ’across and cover it with orange casement cloth. Take the strip of raffia, Wend-the two short sides over to form, a- tube’; join the edges, then buttonhdle-stitch along the top and bottom edges with-, yellow Wool. Join the tube to the, covered cardboard-to form a basket, taking care to make invisible stitches, fill the basket with cotton-wool and put. it Side .“while’ you make the “fruits” for the decoration. Each one is.a small circle of orange cloth three-inches across.- Run A gather-ing-thread round the edge, as shown in diagram 'A, ipiill up •to form a big, and stuff tightly with, cotton-wool. Pull the gathering-thread right* up, then work two or three- stitches on the top in black thread. Make enough fruits to- cover the top of .the’basket. • Now cut the ribbon into’-twelve three-inch. lengths - for the leaves.. Each leaf is made as shown in diagram B, ffom a, length,pt ribbon .with the. ends, mitred over and gathered up. Stitch these all round the - top of the basket, overlapping the sides a little, then pile in the fruit, sewing them to each other and to the leaves here and there. THE OLD-FASHIONED LADY. The second pin-cushion is made in the shape of a little old-fashioned figure. You will need an empty round cardboard box for the foundation, a piece, of flowered cretonne for the skirt, a scrap of white muslin, half a yard of coloured braid one inch wide, a skein of yellow wool, some cotton-wool, a wooden clbthes-peg, andtwo pipe-cleaners. I expect you’re wondering what on earth some of the items are wanted for! The clothes-peg makes the little figure’s head and body. Paint a face On the head, wrap cottonwool roiind just'bdlow, then wind the' two pipe-cleaners round, as shown in. diagram C, to form the arms. Fill the? box (an empty face-powder box does' very well), with cottorf-wool, and wedge

the clothes-peg into the middle of this. Twist the braid round the pipe- cleaners to suggest bodice and sleeves. Now cut a piece of cretonne eight inches deep and twenty inches long for the skirt. Join the short sides of this, turn over hems along the top and bottom edges and run gathering-threads through both. Slip the skirt over the figure, pull in the waistgathers tightly and fasten off. Then pull up the lower gathering-thread so that it will fit tightly over the bottom of the box. Make an apron from a scrap of muslin four inches wide and thfee inches square, and sew this in place. Crochet two-little circles from: the .yellow wool, each: one three inches across, working In d.c. all the time. /Hold one circle over the head and tie it with a length of, coloured thread for the bonnet. ’ Fold the other in halves and add a crochet-chain handle, for a shopping-basket. . Wendy’s Dressmaker.