RIBBON AND TEN FINGERS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17246, 12 January 1924, Page 18

RIBBON AND TEN FINGERS.

BY CORNELIA M. TODD. Do you remember the amazing I centrepieces and nightdress cases that I used to be made from soft, wide-mesli-jed canvas and quantities of narrow ! ribbons Y The ribbon was threaded in I and out, in and out, ad infinitum, and the result—to our modern eyes was . never worth the trouble. | Nowadays we are more utilitarian! iu our needle-crafts, and we have learnt the value of time. For instance, it is possible with the same canvas and many coloured silk ribbons to convert a plain Marocain frock into something approaching a Parts model. ... I have recently changed a black marocain sleeveless attern<K>n frock into a thing of such beauty that it is now reserved for my next dinner dance.

With six little rounds of canvas (the sort on which children are taught to do cross-stitch), varying from 1 to 2 inches in diameter, and narrow Sarsenet ribbon in smoko grey. tango, lemon, flame and jade, 1 made two groups of flowers from which hung loops of jado and grey ribbon, some 12 inches long. One group of flat posies is poised just below the right shoulder in front of the bodice (the frock has a boat-shaped neck) and the other at the left, of the low waist-line. Beginning with the flame-coloured ribbon at the centre of each flower. 1 made loose loons \ inch long, close to-e-ether. Round this I put the orange ribbon in little loons, slightly shorter: then the lemon; chen the grev, and at the edge, spraying outwards like leaves. Irons of the jade "reen ribbon. T backed the canvas with silk and stitched each flower in place on the dress. The effect is remarkably smart.