Evening star., 1923-10-26
Desi ems for Home Needlework

deep. Leave untucked two inches of
material at each end of the piece
| When the collar is finished it should
| be twenty-four or twenty-siX inches
| long. Make the cuffs in the same
way from the remaining strip of
! organdy. When completed each cuff
! should be seven or eight inches long,
according to the size you wish. and
| of the same width as the collar
Finish all the edges except the upper
ones Of both collar and cuffs with a
rolled, plain or hemstitched hem.
| Bind each unfinished edge with a
| length of bias tape. Then make but
tonholes and fasten the collar and
cuffs by means of small pearl or lace
| buttons.
a more dressy set is made from net
footing or chiffon, trimmed with
Chantilly lace. The net footing is the
easier of the two materials to work
with and is also cheaper. To make
the collar, cut a strip of the footing
| twenty-siX inches long and two and
one-half inches wide. To make the
cuffs, use two strips each six inches
long and two and one-half inches
wide. Finish with lace that is one
or one and one-half inches wide. You
will need about two and one-siXth
yards of il. If you wish to make a
VeStee also. allow more, of course
Sew the lace edgins to the net with
soft-colored embroidery silk in two
I'NS VI Jilt IpllS SlliCI.
Then decorate the corners of the col
lar and cuffs with clusters of French
knots worked in black or colored silk
! or if YOU like you can leave the corr
pers without any decoration.
To make Il VeStee, cut a piece of net
footing to the right length. gather it,
then sew d band of lace to the gath
cred edge. Then bind the unfinished
edges with narrow folds of net.
If you wish. you may wear either
~ lf In n,l in Y a
with a round-neCked silk shirtwaiSt
which fastens in front. In this case
draw the collar snug and fasten in
front.
How to Make New CamiSOles.
Any paper pattern of a camisole
will serve as the basis for various
Camisoles that any woman can make
by applying lace edging, insertion,
beading. ribbon and ribbon flowers.
according to individual taste. The
bodice of. the camisole is simply made
from 4 strip of material that is long
enough to allow for gathers, tucks or
pleatS. The shoulder straps arS uSu-
ally made of ribbon, lace or insertion,
and will stay in place better If two
straps are used, one crossing the
other.
CamfsoIe No. Cut a length Of
fine white nainsook or very wide
white satin ribbon. Allow about six
teen inches of extra length for gath
ers. For this camiSole the shoulder
straps and the top of the camiSole
are made in lattice effect. To make
the straps use narrow bias folds of
peach-cclored georgette or nainsook,
each fold being three -eighths of an
inch wide and placed an inch apart
to form the latticc-work bands. AL
low enough material to make bow
forming the lattice work first. and do
not sew the sides where the edges
are folded until YOU have folded in
the edges of all the short straps that
fern the lattice bands. Make a hem
round the lower edge Of the Camisole
and gather it over an elastic band.
No. 2--This is made from solid
white or solid COlored muslin and
trimmed with Lace landings Of
shadow or tilet lace. having insets of
colored muslin or organdy. The pret-
tieSt choice of Colors for the insets,
which are usually embroidered in
white. are pink, blue, lavender and
yellow. y CamiSOle Of white muslin
With white shoulder straps. the in
sets giving the only dash of color to
the garment. is very attractive. or
YOU may prefer to make the straps of
muslin that matches the inSets in col
or and to decorate them with small
flowers made from ribbon. For the
bodice Of the camisOle cut strip of
material long enough to allow for
Sli@ht gathers. Finish the bottom
with a hem that is deep enough to
run elastic through. Sew lace band
ing to the gathered top and finish
with combined edeing and heading,
Then run ribbon OF the same color as
the iusetS through the beading
Nc. 3-This is camisole made
from a piece of white wash satin.
Draw or trace on il a spray of vio-
let's and emhroider the drawing with
fine lavender -coIored floss silk. Then
make up the bodice, using beading
instead of insertion at the top and
running elastic through the hem at
the bottom. Run white or lavender
cnlorcd ribbon through the beading.
For each shoulder strap use two
similar ribbons, trimmed with very
narrow lace cdging. Finish each
strap at the top with a small violet
made from laVenGer-coiOred ribbon.
ALI these camisoles are made to slip
on over the mead, without any fasten-
ings down the front or back.