WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 17 August 1935, Page 18 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

“SPECIAL REQUEST’ BED JACKET. To make the pretty little bed jacket, about which I am telling you by special request, you will need one yard of flannel 30 inches wide, in a pretty pastel shade such as soft blue, rose or lavender. You will also need about half an ounce of white wool for the crochet

edging and two penny skeins of embroidery wool in pink and light green if the jacket is blue. Use blue wool on a pink jacket. Fold the flannel widthways and lengthways, and cut according to the diagram. Pin the folded material flat on a table and rule off the various measurements with a pencil, so that you can quickly and easily do the cutting out. Cut through the top left-hand fold for the front opening, but take care not to cut the back. The dotted lines show where to cut the fronts away at the top. The curved line shows the cut to make for the back of the neck. Take the pieces—one back and two fronts—and turn under and tack a single hem all round each. Now blanket-stitch along the hems in white wool. Next, with a medium-sized crochet-hook, work a border of double crochet all round, working each stitch into one of the blanket-stitches. Then join the fronts to the back along the tops of the shoulders, using white wool and putting the stitches into corresponding loops of the crochet edging. The easiest way to do this neatly is to lay the pieces to be joined flat on the table and thread the needle in and out of each " opposite pair of stitches, Join the side and underarm seams in the same way. Work a little fancy edging pound the sleeves, and round the edges of the jacket. Join the wopl to the lower corner of the .right front, and work one d.c., * two chain, miss two d.c., one d.c. Repeat from * all round, then work another row and fasten off. Treat the sleeves in the same way, then crochet two 18-lnch lengths of chain, using doubled wool, and join one to each side of the neck opening, so that they can be tied in a bow, Finish the ends of the cords with little wool tassels. The second diagram gives a “close-up” of the embroidered posies that trim the jacket. The flowers are little pink but-ton-hole-stitched rings with white French knot centres, and there are green daisyloop stitches between them. 1 Pencil round a farthing to get the outlines for the flower?, Wendy’s Dressmaker.