Omaha daily bee., 1906-12-09

10 WOMAN who embroiders but
nj sooner or later will try her skill
on a blouse. 1t means more
work naturally, but it is work
that is repaid a thousandfold in the
satisfaction Of sporting a waist that is
Enthusiastically not picked up on bar
gain counter.
The furore for these. embroidered
blouses shows not the slightest sign of
abating-in fact, it is, II anything, on
the increase. A bit of handwork-satin
stitch. French laid work, Hedebo, bro
derie Anglalse or even the easy outlines
will give an air to the simplest little
costume.
But, alas, this "air," II it must be pur-
chased, is a very costly luXury-a lux
ury to be dreamed of but scarcely at
tained by the woman whose allowance
can by no possibility be stretched to
cover the extra frills so dear to the fem
mime heart
Fortunately, many girl-poor In this
worlds goods-has the blessed compen-
sation OF being "knacky"-able to do for
herself things that her Weather friends
must buy at a round sum- For the
woman who is a good needlewoman,
therefore, the number and variety Of
embroidered Houses in her wardrobe are
only limited by the time at her COM
mand-and pc ssibly the strength of her
eyes.
But even getting the material
stamped is an extra item of cost
that must often be considered. Just
here we come to the rescue with de-
kNwn fWrl haN
every woman seeing them is straight
way impelled TO utilize them at once.
AN EFFECTIVE PATTERN
The blouse pattern given today, for
instance, is something quite out of
the ordinary. Graceful and effective,
it yet is not so elaborate as to make
it's completion almost lifework This
is the secret of really good design
ing-to achieve the best results at the
least expenditure of time.
The combination of scallop, bow
knots and floral spray has been skill
fully united into a harmonious whole
that lends itself to the beautifying of
many different materials.
1t is equally good done in fine cot
tons on the sheer lingerie blouses
that are worn at every season, worked
in silks, either colored or white, on
crepes and fine gauzes, or carried out
in ribbon work on smooth. light
weight cloths or silks.
The method of the embroidery may
be equally varied. The scallop is. OF
course, buttonholed This should be
done as closely ana smoothly as pos
sible, the edges being first heavily
padded with a rather thick. soft cot
ton. By the way. the quickest way
to pad a detached scallop like this.
where a loose cordilg cannot be con-
veniently used, is to fill Il I'm with
several rows Of rather large chain
stitch.
The bowknots may be padded and
worked over and over in the plain
satin stitch, or they may be heavily
outlined and seeded thlckly This lat
ter method is particularly effective
when colors are used, the edge being
either couched or outlined with a
gold or silver thread. and the inside
dlled in with a color
The flowers, n intended for a lin
gerie waist may be treated in several
ways. Each petal may be embroidered
In satin stitch with a pierced eyelet
centre, or the centre may be in the
raised embroidery and the petals first
run around closely. the centre slashed
and turned back and the edges worked
smoothly over and over as for English
cut work.
The leaves are prettiest done solidly,
but may be outlined and seeded, or else
worked into a slightly slanting stitch
in central vein.
Do the stem in twisted outline
sketch, or, II time is no object. and you
really can embroider well, work them
i'm the very fine over-and-over stitch TO
be seen on the exquisite French lingerie.
Color is so much used again this win
tel that this design is specially good
when worked either I'm pastel shades in
the natural tones OF flower and foliage
with the scallops and bowknot a slight
~ deeper tint than the flowers: OF
carried out In self-tints OF the fabric
embroidered. For instance, a pale gray
crepe woulO be charming worked in
one or two harnonizing tones OF gray