WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 20 (Supplement)

WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

My dear Children, —A Wendy Lady wants to know how to make different, things out of ribbons. .Tt will be rather fun to talk about them this week, don’t you think?

You can start with a smart woven belt., to wear with a plain frock. You’ll want three yards of inch-wide ribbon in one colour for the foundation, and another yard or so in a con trasting shade for the weaving. Cut the three yards into three, and pin the strands firmly down side by side. Then take the other colour, and, starting at the very top, weave it in an’ out, cutting the ends each side after allowing about a quarter of an inch to turn over. Tack the ends down as you go along, and when you’ve woven all the ribbon you must mitre one end by turning the points over to each other. You will, have to stitch the ‘ ving on to a plain ribbon or cotton braio three inches wide, to keep it firm and neat; then, if you stitch a buckle on • (‘nd, the belt is finished. The same idea can be carried out make a hat-band, using much narrower ribbons.

With a scrap of patterned silk ribbon. two inches wide and about nine inches long, you can fashion a dear little needle-case for the handbag. Mitre cue end, and line the ribbon with a strip of fine flannel the same ■ size; turn up a flap one-and-a-half inches deep at the unmitred end, and sew down each side to form a pocket. This will hold a thread-card, thimble, and so on. The needles and pins arc pinned on to the flannel. A wee loop at the top will fasten on to a button, when the case is rolled round and round. A pretty pincushion can be made out of a little celluloid doll head and three lengths of different coloured satin ribbons—say, pink, mauve and pale blue. Make a flat round cushion first; then run a gathering thread along each ribbon, and sew them round the cushion, allowing each row to overlap the other. Dress the doll’s head m scraps of ribbon, sew it firmly to the middle of the top frill—and that’s Wendy ’s Dressmaker I

Dear Wendy,—l am going to tell you the adventures of another duck of ours. First of all I must tell you that, the old duck we set brought out four little ducks, such darling little things they are. Well, this duck I am going to tell you about, she always goes down to a little pond we have, but lately she has not come back, and we never seemed to worry much about her, hut this morning mother and I vent down to look for I her and we never found her or saw a sign of her. After «he came up the next day 1 I watched her all the time right down to the pond and then I sat on the bank and waited | anxiously to see what would happen. At I last she swam away. I sat as still as I I could, and then I saw her get amongst the * rushes and box thorns and sit quite still. I then went and looked to see if she had any eggs under her. I had a look but I did not *ee any. so I went home and told my mother, who told me to put some hen eggs under the duck. I got some and started off to her nest. 1 made her get off and then I could sc* that she had six or seven eggs beneath her, so I did not put any hen eggs under her, because I thought there might be some come out sooner than the others. I will write soon and tell you if she brings any out, or not. ir she does we will have ten or eleven darling little ducklings. Did you get the parcel of dolls we sent you, Wendy? I hope you got. them safely. Well, Wendy, I suppose I will have to close now. Hoping you and your big family are quite well. With love.—From “EASTERN STAR.” Opaku. The little ducklings are such pretty little things, aren’t they? What a cunning ok? duck to go and hide away like she did. Perhaps she intended to spring a surprise upon you by hatching out her brood, and then proudly marching up to you one fine morning to show them to you. Yes, do let me know how she gets on. Oh, how can I thank you and "Snowflake,” also “Little Goodie Two “Shoes” for those lovely dolls? Many, many thanks, my dear.—Wendy.