Evening journal., 1915-09-03
Quilting BEE WILL
SUCCEED TANGO TEA
Passion for Old Time Handi-
work Sweeps Over the
Modern Home
MANY NEW IDEAS
WILL BE CREATED
BY MARGARET MASON,


Good gracious, can il 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 S.-The newest
bee in mlady's bonnet is a mighty
old one-the quilting bee, if you
please At least a perfect passion for
this old time handwork is sweeping
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 specially
shops in Fifth avenue are showing
some delightfully."- artistic and Won
drously attractive things in the quilt
ing line
There are first of all the large bed
quilts done on unhleached muslin.
with appliQued designs of old fash
Toned hollyhocks i'm lovely rose pinks
and greens 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 la, lender.
The hollyhock design and cOlors are
perhaps the most effective and there
are slip covers for chairs. table COW
ers and even curtains i'm the same
patterns the latter appiqued on
single thickness of the muslin and
quilted only i'm the sense of the patch
work 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 of
the cherries being wildly futuristic
in gorgeous yellow. bright puppies
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
intricate patchwork designs Of filled
baskets of fruit or flowers. sprays Of
varicolored grapes and the hollyhock
designs and morning glory wreaths
Of the bed spreads Each pillow is Of
course bound in the inevitable strip
of plain color.
As the prices of the fascinating
finished articles are as high as their
coloring it is indeed a boon to the
woman who has more taste than cash
that the tea napkin, pillows and small
Ter pieces come with the material
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 love-
" women in any more personal spot
than her household furnishings as yet
but it will no doubt be but a Ques-
tion of time when her ingenuity will
turn this quaint art 20 good sartorial
account Especially for the kddies
are its possibilities manifold in the
form of gay little jumpers. aprons
and cunning washable bonnets and
hats The crib sets including the lit
tie bed spread and the quilted side
protectors are adorable and for the
wee folk the floral designs vary
with charming but often unclassified
fauna. cute cubist ducks and doggies
and bmnies pink. blue and green. de-
flying in the snug security Of their
carefully quilted stitching the inquls-
ite prying of infantile fingers.
Just think. too. of the unlimited
vista this revived art opens ND in
the line of hand made merry Xmas
and natal gifts for Father Can't you
just coniure up fhe quilted smoking
jackets and house slippers rife with
pink elephants nesting on SPRAYS of
purple grapes. Oh there is simply
NOTHING that can put a wet blanket on
the quilting now. In this respect "to
be or not to be" is a settled question
for the quilting bee is bound to be.