Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-27
B R I G HT In COLO R
SLUMBER ROBES MADE BY !
QUAINT DESIGN.
Old Style Afghans Having
Fresh Vogue New
Stitches.

Written for The Evening Star.
The slumber robe that women like best
now is cheerful-looking and cozy object
of comfort. 1t is neither too delicate in
color nor in material to stand hard wear,
and it combines lightness of weight with
warmth.
A pretty new slumber robe is of Italian
make, or an imitation of 1t, in broad
stripes of bright coIors, in which yellow
appears and frequently red. 1t has a long.
woolIy, hairy surface that is soft ia effect
and warm to the touch.
The Italian slumber robes are selected
with a view to the colors in the room in
which they will be used, and hues are
chosen which will become the face of the
woman who snuggles under them.
French Slumber robes are also faShlon-
able. These are more elaborate than the
other sort and cover wider range or de-
signs and materials. The French robe is
hgnt and warm and also distinctly orna-
mental. 1t often has wreaths of mowers In
soft tintS upon a delicate ground color. but,
generally speaking, its coiors are not so
bright as those in the Italian stripes.
The afghan. which was once such Ia
vorite, has come into its own once more,
and society not only wraps itself in aft
ghans when 1t lies down tor siesta, but
knits and crochets them as well.
Slumber afghans are sometimes worked
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mating lines of color, while various fancy
effects are produced in alternating lines OF
colOrs of contrasting hues-
With Shaded Sides.
1t is also a fad of the day to make these
broader stripes with shaded sides, the CEN
ter lines Of stitches being dark and the
side lines gradually shading to an almost
white edge. Another popular afghan pat
tern has zigzag stripe running from cor
ner to corner instead of from end 10 end.
SIumber robes worked in cross stitch are
even more stylish than the others, ana re-
uuire much more time to make and much
more money to buy. To work a big mono
gram in, the center of a slumber robe, and
then work a border or corner pattern In
large figures and bright colors, and finally
to ofill in the ground with u dark WOOL IN
cross stitch, Is to produce something as
beautiful as 1t is serviceable and fashion
able
1t Is possible to get a single blanket OF a
pretty color and work a cross stitch border
to it upon scrim, with design in the CEN
ter.
Robes of Swedish fat stitch are worked
in different tints and lighter ones from
cross stitch, and much more yellow Is seen
in Swedish and Danish work The slumber
robes are treated in the same manner and
with the same materials as II cross stitch
was to be worked. the coloring being diff
ferently arranged for the reason that one
stitch mingles color where it pleases and
the other works in lines. The stitches for
slumber robes are long and the woods, silks
and yarns rather thick, so that robe is
not such a task to make, being tedious
rather than troublesome.
1t is quite fad to mingle cross with
fat stitch, in slumber robes, and American
impatience is fairly well shown in the fact
that more robes are ornamented with these
fancy needlework stitches than are worked
entirely with them.
Womer deft with the needle construct
some dainty slumber robes of satin rib
bons joined with fancy needlework stitches,
mingling feather stitching, briar stitching.
herring boning, chain stitching and French
knots with any other stitch their ingenuity
may suggest.