East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1915-09-03
BY MARGARET MASON.

avenue SHOPS SHOW NOks
BY MARGARET MASON.
(Written for the United Press)
| Good gracious, can It really be
This season that we're going to see
The good old fashioned quilting bee
Replace the favored tango tea?
II certainly looks so to me!
NEW YORK, Sept. The newest
bee in miladys bonnet is a mighty
old one-the quilting bee. If you
please. At least perfect passion
for this old time handwork is sweep
ing over the modern hearth and now
no home is complete without a bit Of
handsome quilting. Shocking has
been laid aside and patching up has
become a fine art.
Several of the smart speciality shops
in Fifth avenue are showing some de-
lightfully artistic and wondrously at
tractiye things in the quilting line
There are first Of all the large bed
quilts done on unbleached muslin
with appliqued designs Of old fash
toned hollyhocks in lovely rose pinks
and green's and the whole quilt bound
in an inch wide binding of green.
Then there Is the morning glory de-
sign in shades of blue and lavender.
The holly hook design and colors are
perhaps the most effective and there
are slip covers for chairs, table COW
ers and even curtains in the same
patterns the latter appliqued on
single thickness Of the muslin and
quilted only in the sense Of the
patchwork design being stitched on
by hand.
There are even tea napkins with
tiny patches Of red and green cloth
set on in one corner like a cluster
of two cherries with a binding Of the
red around the whole. In a set OF
these napkins there are only two OF
like coloring in the dozen, some oil
the cherries being wildly futuristic in
gorgeous yellow, bright purples and
gay blues and all combined with the
green for leaves.
Stunning quilted pillows there are,
their elaborately quilted cream col
ored backgrounds frightened with in
tricate patchwork designs of filled
baskets OF fruit or flowers, sprays Of
varicolored grapes and the holly
hook designs and morning glory
wreaths Of the bed spreads. Each
pillow is of course bound in the in
evitable strip Of plain color.
| As the prices OF the fascinating
! finished articles are as high as their
coloring II is indeed a boon to the
woman who has more taste than cash
that the tea napkin, pillows and
smaller pieces come with the mate
rial all cut and the designs basted on
ready to be neatly stitched and quilt
ed at home or at the sewing club for
exactly half prices.
Aside from cunning aprons made
on heavy linen like the tea napkins
the quilting fad hasn't struck lovely
women in any more personal spot
than her household furnishings as yet
but it will no doubt be but a question
Of time when her ingenuity will turn
this quaint art to good, sartorial ac-
count. Especially for the kiddies are
It's possibilities manifold in the form
Of gay little jumpers, aprons ana
cunning washable bonnets and hats.
The crib sets including the little bed
spread and the quilted side protec-
tors are adorable and for the wee folk
the floral designs vary with charming
but often unclassified fauna, cute
cubist ducks and doggies and bunnies
pink, blue and green, defying in the
snug security Of their carefully
quilted stitching the inquisitive prying
of infantile fingers.
Just think too Of the unlimited
vista this revived art opens up in
the line of handmade Merry Xmas
and natal gifts for father. Can't you
Just eonjure up the quilted smoking
Jackets and house slippers rife with
pink elephants nesting on sprays OF
purple grapes. Oh, there is simply
nothing that can put wet blanket
on the quilting now In this respect
ito be or not to be" is a settled ques-
ton for the quilting bee is bound to