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Show Needle era ft Iews The new trend in table styles and settings is the circular look. Round tables draped with round, fringed tablecloths, practically Ron-existent in fashionable residences a decade ago, are the household house-hold styles of today. New? No, not really. During the gaslight ra, everyone who could, had a round table somewhere in her ' home. It was most often covered with a circular cloth edged with deep fringe. This appealing style we have borrowed from yesteryear yester-year is meant to add a decorative flourish to the stark simplicity of our contemporary interiors. ) I ! ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION As soon as a new, attractive style enters the scene, fashion-minded, fashion-minded, budget-conscious needleworkers ask themselves if they can make one like it. I The answer is yes where the j circular, fringed tablecloth is concerned. Lustrous, mercerized mercer-ized crochet cotton, so easy to launder, makes perfect fringe and trimmings for a round cloth. Most stores are now selling a colorful selection of plain, round tablecloths, 72 inches in diameter, to which you can add your own special adornments. To be doubly economical, eco-nomical, you could make your own cloth from a twin-size bed sheet. These sheets, usual- ly 72 x 108 inches, will allow you extra fabric for napkins after you cut out the circular piece for your tablecloth. A nice trick would be to make a narrow edging of hairpin lace for each napkin, using a -inch staple, to match the trimming on the dinner cloth. ELEGANT TABLE MANNER Dainty hairpin lace edgings are always found in and on the best circles. Here, hairpin lace reveals the finest in table manners as an insertion and edging for a circular dinner cloth. Deep, flowing flow-ing fringe adds further elegance to the table setting. Decorate your own round table in this pretty way by doing the trimmings yourself. Full instructions for making the hairpin lace, with illustrations, il-lustrations, and the fringe, may be obtained by writing to the Needlework Department of this paper. Simply send a stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request for CARNIVAL TABLE-I TABLE-I CLOTH, Leaflet No. S-864. |