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Show 'TpHERE is a modern air about the colorful roughly woven table mat and the chair cover and cushion shown here. Does it surprise sur-prise you to learn that they cost next to nothing? There is a trick in it. The fabric is actually burlap bur-lap sacking with dyed strips of old silk stockings drawn through. Bright colored yarns may be substituted sub-stituted for the stocking strips or combined with them if desired. Either plaids or stripes may be worked out, and the best results will be obtained with a simple color scheme such as the one suggested sug-gested here. Dye the stockings before cutting. cut-ting. Cut the strips -inch wide and about an inch longer than the space they are to fill. Taper one end of the strip so that it will pull through the burlap easily. If long strips are needed, cut around and around the stocking spirally instead of lengthwise. Now, draw out one thread of the burlap; then tie one end of the next thread to the tapered end of the stocking strip as at A. Pull the other end of this thread as at B to draw the strip through. NOTE: If you wish to use these weekly articles for reference paste them in a scrapbook, as they are not included in either Sewing Book No. 1 or 2-. Book 1, "Sewing for the Home Decorator," Decora-tor," covers curtains, slipcovers, dressing tables; 48 pages of fascinating fas-cinating directions. Book 2 illustrates illus-trates 90 embroidery stitches with numerous applications; doll clothes and gift items. Order by number, enclosing 25 cents for each book desired. If you order both books, leaflet on making crazy quilts, with 36 stitches illustrated, il-lustrated, will be included free. Address Mrs. Spears, 210 South Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. |
