Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-07-05
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Dainty bedroom accessories in the
way OF curtains, ~bedspreads, bureau
and dresser scarfs, can be easily made
at small cost OF striped or checked
Bingham. Blue and white is a clean.
cool color to select.
For the bedspread use coarse white
lace insertion about an inch and a half
wide to join the breadths together
down n center and also to place at
the heading of a ruffle eight inches
wide that is placed on each side and
across the bottom of the spread. Shams
for pillows are edged with narrow in
sert1on and a four-inch ruffle. For
the bureau scarf use three 12-incll
quares of Bingham, Joined and edged
with insertion.
The window curtains are made per-
fectly plain, excepting for Il ruffle
across the end headed with insertion. A
deep valance across the top is edged
with a narrow ruffle also. With q
biue and white cotton rug on the floor
this makes a most attractive room for
"a young girl. Bingham is very mex
penSive and launder beautifully.
Have you a little girl who yon want
TO train in the domestic way she should
go! And do The little fingers work
clumsily over long seams and min
Lerestlng centerpieces? Why not sug-
gest some interesting embroidery for
not afternoons when it is much better
for little ones to be quietly employed
than running about in the scorching
sunshine. There are so many cute little
articles that a child may embroider
which she can use afterward herself
and which will make her doubly proud
Of her handiwork.
There is the little play apron in
rolored linen or chambray. Mother can
run II up in no time on the machine,
binding the edge with white bias bind
'ng, which she can buy all cut and
pressed ready to stitch into place over
me raw edgS. She may make one deep
pocket across the front and print or
write on 1T the words play Time" or
draW II she can a group of scattered
toys.
Play aprons turned up halfway and
stitched into a series of deep pockets
are most useful and admit of as much
pr as little handwork as mother sees
NJ to impose. Towels, of the small guest
size variety, make excellent exercises
tor easy %stitchery.
one OF the most difficult things for
the home dressmaker to accomplish is
the proper cutting Of striped Materials.
To be able to cut a striped dress we'll is
proof that you are by no means u novice
at the art Of dressmaking.
Skirts are always cut first. Lay the
material out flat on the cutting table,
Pnd II there is no up and down" to the
material, you will be able to fit the
cores into each other, cutting the ma
terial in an economical way. Remember
to have the line of small p~erforations
found in. the center Of each gore of the
pattern run straight with a stripe. This
will cause each u edge to be slightly
bias, and, when Joined will look far
better thar if a bias edge was joined to
the straight. The center of the front
gore must. of course, be on a stripe.
Double your material before cutting in
order to have both sides exactly alike.
When cutting sleeves, me sure the ma
terial is doubled, and save yourself the
trouble Of having one sleeve different
from h other. thus running the gar
ment. Stripes should be run straight
from the shoulder to the waist in
sleeves. Have the stripes run straight
down the center of the front and
straight down the center of the back
when cutting the bodice. Always allow
plenty of material for cams when
striped material is used. and be sure
that the stripes match in the Joining
of seams.