| Show By Lydia L oue Le Baron Walker o cu ii r S 1 In Interesting Examples of Plaited Plaid 1 ld Trimming on Frocks Sofa a Cushions and nd Draperies PLAITED plaids are novel They form attractive ornamentations for useful and fancy tancy articles and for tor frocks The plaids are open showing the foundation foundation foundation tion material as a background They are of the tile simplest construction They require either cither a very accurate eye eYe eYe- eye or or lr ora lra a ruler The latter Is advised as ns with It the work Is made very easy cosy easy Rule Hule the lines straight with a pencil They will w be concealed entirely by the material material material ma ma- sewed over them This material may be bo very narrow folds of a contrasting textile of rickrack rickrack rick rick- rack braid of ribbon fancy tancy braids etc Rickrack Is a favorite medium for making these plaited plaids One color alone may be used or two or three each different from the color of the foundation as well as from each other Narrow v ribbon Is another medium medium medium me me- ready rendy to use and so o also are trimming braids Textiles can be made Into narrow strips for tor plaiting by cutting strips from ie to 1 Inch wide and seaming the lengthwise edges together This can be done without basting If edges are even and are pinned together at Intervals Run nun a small mall safety pin through one end of a strip and shut It securely Push It down through the tubing and when It comes out at the theother theother theother other end of the strip the tubing will willbe willbe be turned right side out and all raw edges be concealed conceal d. d Ruling Huling the Lines Line Rule lines In parallel rows on the material to be ornamented Cross these lines with equally spaced lines extending over o the first ones at right angles Allow plenty of room between lines 1 Just what this distance shall be Is determined by the width of the braid ribbon or textile strands When using rickrack It must be reckoned as v wide Ide as the distance between tips Ups on one edge and the other The braid Is undulating and so while narrow In Itself tills this waving line spreads to two or three times the actual width of ot the tho braid The braid or textile strands etc when basted to the foundation must baste weave alter alternately over and under the crossing strands leaving the openwork spacing Narrow strands can be te stitched by machine through the tho lengthwise center Is II generally generally gen gen- y so sewed on When strands are wide enough to curl when sewed down so have bave each euch edge stitched down The trimming Is II delightfully effee effective effee- effee tive In corners of sofa cushions and table covers with two or three of ot the middle strands running straight and uncrossed between the he corner pieces Or the plaiting can cnn be bo In triangular form across opposite ends of ot a square sofa cushion cover an untrImmed diagonal section through the center A Arow Arow Arow row of plaited platted plaid makes a smart finish or border around the lower part of or a blouse down shoulder seams scams and for cuffs e. e Il nen ll |
