South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-12
NelO Suggestions
for Enlbroidering
Much of Beauty of Hand
Work Depends Upon Taste
and Originality.

Turkish towels are stamped with
buttonholed ends. The towels are
striped with three bands of pink or
blue at the end of the rough Turkish"
part. Below that is a stretch of plain
fabric for the buttopholing. which can
be worked in white or in the color of
the stripes
For the luncheon or breakfast table
=, set of doilies or runners embroider-
ed with d willow china pattern. OF
course a table spread with these
doilies or runners should be set with
willow-ware. The pattern is stamped
on very heavy linen and is 10 be work
ed in blue. 4 big centerpiece, a yard
square, costs dollar and a half, and
scarfs 20 inches wide and yard and
a half long cost the same. There are
smaller doilies. Of course, at smaller
prices The centerpiece can be but
tonholed in scallops or finished with
an edge of eluny lace.
Transfer patterns are now sold for
these willOw-ware centerpieces and
doilies. and in addition there is a will
,ow-ware candle shade pattern; sol
with these patterns, some ecru or gray
linen, cluny lace for bordering and
blue floss for mbroidering, one could
make a most attractive set OF dollles
and centerpieces for the breakfast and
luncheon table, or OF candle shades
and centerpiece for a spread for the
afternoon tea table.
There is a transfer pattern for va
rious small embroidered frames 10 be
worked around initials on lingerie and
household linen. There are II frames
IN the set some big enough 10 hold
letters two and one-half inches higs
and some for letters an inch shorter
The scallop OF today. as everybody
doubtless knows is not the scallop OF
yesterday, Then, if we had no pattern
at hand, we could take a spool OF one
size or another and mark off the seal
lop we desired. But now-scallOps
are square and pointed quite as often
rs they are round. There is a good
transfer pattern for scallopS including
round ones, pointed ones and various
sorts of square ones which sells for 10
cents and has scallops of various
widths and sizes.
\ recently designed centerpiece
shows a clever adaptation of cross |
stitch to a round cover. The cross
stitch, undeniably square, is arranged
N pretty WreatnS, Tour WredJnS IN all |
placed at equal distances about the |
edge of the round piece OF white linen. !
Between the wreaths appears a square |
diamond, also done in cross-stitch. |
Further harmoniZing with the square |
cross-stitch on this round piece are
iour strips of cluny insertion, one ar
ranged across each side OF the round /
piece and thus forming square in the |
center of the piece, each corner of the /
square making two overlapping ends
that continue out TO the edge of the /
round centerpiece. AS though TO /
equally emphasize the roundness of |
the centerpiece there is an edging of
cluny lace about the cover. The
wreaths of crOss-stitch are in the tiny !
oblongs of linen near the edges of the |
formed by the cross strips |
of cluny. These cross strips of lace in |
tersect the crOss-stitched diamonds, |
so that the lower point of each dia- |
mOnd is in two of the oblongs formed |
by the insertion, and the upper point |
of each diamond is in a separate tiny |
point of linen formed by the overlap
ping ends of the insertion which run
cut to the covers edge.
As a result. the square and the cir
cular have been brought together in
an unusually artistic and harmonious
manner for the emhroiderer. The
is done in three shades
of delft blue and is most effective.