Show Wool Event Scheduled For January 1961 If you like to sew and have a n flair for lovely wool fashions here is an opportunity for you to do your very best and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps win national honors I 1960 has been the bicentennial centen bi-centen- nial year of wool manufacturing and the annual MAKE IT YOURSELF WITH WOOL CONTEST CONTEST CONTEST CON CON- TEST is being sponsored by the American Wool Council and the Women's Auxiliary to the National Na National National Na- Na Wool Growers The wool growers and their ladies want to encourage girls to sew with American loomed wool fabrics because wool they maintain Isan is isan isan an American heritage Ever since your great-grandmother great carded and spun her own yarn from wool grown by your great ers er's own shep it has been the I fashion to MAKE 1 IT YOURSELF WITH WOOL Today's wool producers producers pro pro- producers have no notion of letting you forget that wool is wonderful wonder wonder- ful to wear and easy to sew The big event for our district is a fashion show to be held Jan 19 1961 1 at 30 2 in the Centerfield Centerfield Centerfield Center- Center field Ward Yard chapel at which each contestant models her own wool garment Teachers mothers H 4 leaders and home demonstration agents give advise and instruction instruction instruction tion but contest rules stipulate that all garments submitted must be entirely the work of the contestant contestant contestant con con- and much be fashioned from American loomed per percent percent percent cent wool Any girl 13 years of age and not over 22 in one of the 21 contest states may enter the district contest by turning in an official entry form to her dis district district district dis- dis state and national contest directors The MAKE 1 IT YOURSELF WITH WOOL contest is open to beginners girls of 13 juniors girls 14 to 17 years of age senior girls 18 to 22 years of age and to adults women of 23 or over Incidentally an excellent sewing sewing sewing sew sew- ing instruction booklet Lets Let's Sew With Wool will be mailed free to each new contestant upon re receipt receipt receipt re- re of her entry forms You are eligible to enter the make it yourself with ith wool contest if you are within the 13 to 22 age I I bracket eager to try sewing with wool and have made an all wool I article during 1960 |