WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 20 July 1935, Page 6 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

“SPECIAL REQUEST” WORK BASKET.

To make a big work-basket like the ope sketched you will need a piece of cardboard 32 inches long and 12 wide, and four cardboard circles 10J inches across. Yriu will peed also a piece of crash 25 inches wide and 33 inches long, four circles 12 inches across, and a piece 10 inches deep and 33 inches long. An empty cotton-reel and some penny skeins of embroidery wool will complete your list of materials. Fold the big piece of crash in halves, then draw the flower-design along the lower edge of the top fold. Pennies and half-pennies will give the outline for the flowers, straight lines serve for stems and little loops for leaves—see diagram A. Embroider them as shown in diagram B, giving all the flowers satinstitch centres, stem-stitch stalks ana daisy-loop leaves, and working some of the petals in buttonhole stitch, and some in daisy-loops. Diagram C shows the finished strip. Now take the narrower strip of crash and turn over a hem along one edge. Sew this strip to the other half of the big piece of crash, as shown in diagram

D, mark it off into pockets by lines of stem-stitching, then press the whole and sew th'e two shorter sides of the crash together to make a tube. Now make the base and the lid of the basket. For the former, cover two of the cardboard circles by running a gathering-thread round the edge of the crash, placing a card on top,- and pulhng up the threads so as to enclose the edge of the board. Do the same with the other two cards and crash circles for the lid. The top of the lid has a handle made front the cotton-reel enamelled bright green. Make a woollen tassel on a double length of wool, thread this through the -reel, then through the centre of the top circle, and secure it to the inside. Place the other covered circle on top, with the two wrong sides facing, stitch round the edges and conceal the stitches with green wool blanket-stitching. This completes the lid. , * Bend-the cardboard Strip round and stick the edges together to form a tube. Take the crash covering, turn it right side out, and fold in halves. Slip the tube between the two halves, then sew the two thicknesses of material together along the lower edge of the tube. Stitch one covered cardboard circle to the base, taking care to get the surplus material on the inside, then slip the other cardboard circle inside the basket, sandwiching the material at the bottom underneath. A stitch or two here and there will keep this circle in place. Finally blanket-stitch round both edges of the work-basket to match the-edge of the lid.

Wendy'a Dressmaker.