Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-02-08
Improving a BEDROOM.

To have ones bedroom look hand
some is laudable ambition, and when
this can be accomplished with the out
lay of a little taste, rather than of
means, it is doubly desirable. With
the many beautiful fabrics now TO be
had, there is not the slightest necessity
for our rooms to look cherries or cold.
The bed-spread, pillow shams, mantel
and bracket lambrequins; the table-cov-
er, chair-backs and splasher; the doilies
for dressing-table and wash-stand, to-
gether with the cover of foot-stools, and
the night sachets and the comb and
brush boxes, may all be covered alike
from any one of many materials. For
instance, il you wish full set of cheese
cloth (Which is nothing more or less
than unbleached muslin), you can cut
out the various pieces to fit their APP
pointed places. Drawing some suitable
design, work this in outline stitch with
red, blue or brown marking cotton, and
finish the edges with red skirt braid
The bed-spread can be finished after
the directions given by Farmers Wife
in a previous article on counterpanes;
only the tufts of wool used for lacking
the diamonds must be of the color that
is used in embroirdering the other ar
ticles. The curtains can be worked in
deep borders of peacock feathers and
sunfiowers, mixed with cat-tails, and
lined with turkey red, for the sake of
warmth, if these are to be winter cur
tains. The loops to tie them back with
will be of crimson satin ribbon, and
they are edged with antique lace. A
piece of the cheese-cloth about three
eighths of yard wide, is taken for the
lambrequin. Work in outline stitch
some quaint figures upon it, and edge
it with lace to match the rest of the
curtain. This is to be box-plaited and
fastened to the curtain. On one of the
doilies for the dressing-table work n fan,
and on the other horseshoe, with the
words "Good Luck in the border in
small letters. The pin-cushion can
have butterflies and spray of flowers
surrounding the owners monogram,
while the table and washstand scarfs,
the splasher and chair backs may have
border of drawn work across the ends,
and groups of Kate Greenaway children
above this. The bottom of each of
these pieces, together with the doilies
and pincushion, &c., is finished with an
tique lace. Or you may knit an edge in
any of the many patterns of lace with
which you are familiar. | would recon-
mend that you knit this with linen
thread, the sort which is really nothing
but shoemaker's thread.
If baby's crib stands beside your bed,
an extremely pretty spread can be made,
by taking a piece of cheese-cloth and
drawing upon it the outline of cherubs'
heads Accompanying this design is a
rose, and bees fitting about, and the
motto. LAS the bees around rose, SO
the spirits group and close round about
holy childhood, as if drinking its re-
pose" Or should this prove too elab.
crate, there might be, CANCELS guard
my cradle treasure" or, "Fair, sweet
dreams to thee, my baby with bor-
der of fret work and the lace finish.
1t may seem as if these suggestions
were too elaborate, and would consume
too much time in the execution of them.
But the work is all done in outline
stitch, which is accomplished very
quickly. When done. it fully repays
for the effort expended. Its very sim
plicity and neatness renders it charm
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