WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSLAKERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 8 (Supplement)

WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSLAKERS

My Dear Children. Your new ,dress or jumper wiy be very plainly cut, but if it s to l.e smart you simply must have a touch of embroidery on it! So to-day we’re g> ing to tell you how you can make li ■ prettiest posy of flowers imaginable--we call them “penny ha’penny flowers” in the Hut. because you want a penny and a ha’penny for them! Lay your penny on the stuff aid pencil round it for the outline of a Hower: then pencil round a ha 'p< m v arranged dose to the penny drd«-. hi d so on, until you’ve got a nice iitt group. If you look at the po>y in t! ■ sketch, you'll see that some of tl • flowers overlap a tiny hit here am. there; so make your overlap, too, to g : a pretty, natural effect. Now we're ready to begin. Thread a rrewel needle with yellow wool, ai 1 bring it up near the centre of one of the circles. Then work a serie- o( “lazy-daisy” stitches, as shown in l>i < gram A. You 11 find you must do eight or nine of these stitches 1 • get rout > the circle; and when you've fin-hol. just fill in the centre with tw«> or three satin-stitches in orange wool. Another pretty way to make a flow r is shown in Diagram B. For th -. thread your nerdle wit fl T»Tue wool.

bring it up near the centre of a circle, and then work a scries of buttonhole stitches round the circle. This flower can have two or three French knots in yellow for its centre.

Diagram C shows you yet another way of flower-making. To do this one, thread your needle with mauve wool, and bring it up somewhere on the outer line of the circle. Then make a seriea of big stitches in towards the centre, radiating them round as you go. The centre of this flower will look nice outlined with stem-stitch. The leaves ar< worked in jade-green wool here and there round the posy; use the lazy-daisy stitch (Diagram A) for them, and, lastly, w r ork three or four lines of stemstitch up to the flowers,, to suggest stems.

Another very effective way of using all these flower-stitches is to work them right round a jumper hem; or you might like to work posy-motifs on collars, cuffs, and pockets. A trail of gay flowers embroidered on a ribbon makes a pretty hat-band; in fact, once you’ve learnt how to do all the different flowers, you’re sure to find lots of wayto use them.