South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-09-29
Bed Spreads That
Are Different

Probably the grandmother,
10 whom the quilt had originally be-
longed, would have been quite shock
ed If she could have seen her beau
tiful old blue and white quilt being
used for a bedspread. Yet the idea
that one must conceal things as love
~ TO look at as are some of these
old-fashioned quilts is rapidly being
done away with, and the girl who
wants TO have a colonial room is
fortunate if she can find one of them
in that part of her house which has
supplanted the attic.
This quilt was so pretty that sew
eral people copied it. Made by what
used to be called the log cabin pat
tern" of delft blue and white. it
had the owners quantity pretty
name worked into the edge 1t was
used in a white room. where the
furnishings were all Old-fashioned.
and il proved that the covering of
a bed can be made quite as dis
tinctive as any piece of furniture
in the room.
Another bedroom, in which bed
coverings played an important part.
was rather a large room, with two
iron cots in A. The owner of the
room and her sister had wanted ma
hogany twin beds. but found it ad-
visable 70 substitute cots, for
time at least However, they set
about making their cots into twin
beds at the first opportunity. They
"a
ers, which concealed the beds COM
pletely; not bit Of the iron frame
work showed. These covers were
cut by paper patterns, which the
girls made by experimenting with
newspapers, held up against the
beds. A headpiece and a footpiece
we're made for each bed; each of
these was in two pieces, sewed to-
gether with French seams. The
framework Of the cots thus covered,
the bedspreads were made from the
same cretonne; this was dull blue
and pink in colOring. and was so
made that the edge next the floor
was uneven, about a yard across the
front touching the floor, and the rest
of the front edge Of the spread be-
ing about an inch shorter. These
spreads were then edged with dun
blue tape and white ball fringe
An attractive bedspread of cream
colored net rather coarse in quality,
I had an interesting border. made by
cutting large flowers from cretonne,
sewing them on a band OF cream
colored net like that Of which the
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band TO the wrong side OF the
spread. SO that the flowers showed
through.
A sleeping-room. whose effect was
I decidedly restful. had bed covering,
curtains and chiffonier and dress
ing-table scarfs that its young owner
had designed and made herself She
bought a very fine white sheet for
/ her he'd snread. traced a Greek key
/ design around the edges. cut strips
of dull blue linen and stitched them
70 the sheet in the lines Of the de
/ sign She followed the same
method i'm decorating the white
muslin curtains and scarfs. and her
room was far cooler in effect than
when its furnishings were more or
nate
When one v ishes TO leave a fold
I ed blanket or comforter on the
/ foot Of the bed. it j. advisable To
+ provide some sort Of a coyer. a
good pattern which was used. in
I one instance. was made OF cretOnne.
bound with colored ribbon liz a mar
row width. A piece OF cretonne.
/ long enough TO cover the folded
I blanket. was used: this was folded
/ over I'm the middle and the side
/ openings thus left were filed in
F with narrow strips of the cretonne.
slightly gathered so that they htted
into the top Of the opening. and
snapped with patent fasteners 10
/ the edges OF the cretonne. The COW
er was tied az the bottom edges.
at intervals, with ribbons. and thus
the blanket was securely protected