An Attractive Afternoon Coat

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 4, Issue 10, 1 April 1926, Page 21

An Attractive Afternoon Coat

Gross-stitched with Wool in £ix hades. The Gollar and Guffs are of (Slipped Wool

You will require 3 yards of 48 in. soft cream canvas showing 17 squares across to the inch, 6 to 8 ozs. each of 4 ply Scotch Fingering in navy, royal, saxe, brown, beige and cream. Half yard of 48in. silk or cloth for the front facings and collar lining, one crewel or wool needle. Cut out your canvas from a suitable pattern allowing about 1 in. on all sides for turnings. The Darning. —Take the right front piece and begin working in cross-stitch at the lower edge working from right to left. Darn each cross over three threads along and three threads in depth, following the pattern from the chart below which is quite simple to read.

Each square represents the amount of canvas to be covered by a cross-stitch. The black squares mean navy blue cross-stitches, the crosses royal blue cross-stitches, the ovals saxe, the three horizontal lines brown, are dots biege, and the white squares cream. The first row begins with 4 in saxe blue, then instead of continuing along the row changing colours it

is better to work the row above, then another row above using up your needleful of wool. If you like you may fill in all the pattern that is in the same colour, but it is really advisable to change so that you are sure of getting the correct spacing between the different colours. (In each successive row, the bottom part of the crosses is worked into the same line as the top of the crosses in the previous row.) Repeat the 30 cross-stitches across the rows to the side edge and repeat the 26 rows of pattern up to the top of the shoulder and neck edge. IVTOW work the left front to correspond, this time working

from left to right, but reading the chart from right to left as before. For the back find the centre of the canvas and work in pattern to the left side edge, repeating the 30 stitches on the chart, reading from right to left. Finish the 26 rows then go back to the middle and repeat the chart, reading it from left

to right and working on the canvas to the right side edge. Work the sleeves in the same manner starting in the centre and working first to one side edge, then to the other. The Cuffs and Collar are worked differently. They are covered with loops of wool, using a differten colour for each row. Thread your needle with a long length of wool in one colour, leave a margin for turnings, then proceed to pick up one thread, miss the next, pick up the next and so on, leaving loops

of about liins. when drawing the wool through. Work like this in every alternate row, or in every row if you want the loops thicker. Also you can use your wool double if needed. When the canvas is covered, rub soap on the wrong side and press warm iron to keep the wool secure. Clip the loops and trim evenly. Join the sides, shoulders and sleeves by machining the edges, then open out, press flat, and hem down. Stitch in the sleeves and press, then face in the fronts. Line the collar and cuffs and stitch on.