INEXPENSIVE QUILTS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19846, 21 May 1927, Page 19 (Supplement)

INEXPENSIVE QUILTS

[ Excellent and warm quilts for use at home or to be given away in charitv.

can be made from blankets which have worn thih and newspapers. The blankets should be dyed a colour which will go with the recipient’s room, and must bo cut to the size required. Then place the blanket on the floor anil lay opened newspapers on it. The pages of one newspaper must completely overlap those of another, so that there will be no gaps between them, and the layer of newspapers, when finished, will bo the thickness of one newspaper before it is opened. Those printed on good quality paper are the. warmest. Pin them in place from underneath the blanket, using long and large-headed pins or the old-fashioned hatpins so that, it will be easy to remove them. Lay the second blanket on top. Quilt across it in mercerised cotton with inch-long darning stitches, taking care that they pass through both blanket and newspaper. A long thick needle is necessary for this purpose. The diamonds or squares of the quilting should measure about a foot across. Remove the pins and bind the edges of the blankets together with bias tape.