Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1884 — Bed Quilts. [ARTICLE]

Bed Quilts.

It is not to every one that time and patience to make Japanese or crazy quilts is given, but simpler silken spreads may be made with good effect by alternating plain black silk or satin stripes four inches wide, with six-inch stripes made in imitation of Roman ribbon, or horizontal pieces of gaylytinted silk or ribbon. If the latter is used the corded edge must be cut off. No embroidery is necessary on these quilts, but narrow black velvet run between the stripes is an improvement. The short seams across the Roman stripes should all be pressed open. For ordinary winter use serviceable bed spreads are made of plain red or blue satteen; lined with the same shade of some cheaper material, cambric or siiesia will do very well. Put in sheet wadding and tack the quilt all over in six-inch squares, tying in a narrow ribbon at each intersection to make a bow. If the spread is only large enough to cover the bed without tucking in, it may be edged with torchon lace or with rickrack or braid lace. Cheese cloth spreads are pretty made in the same way with ribbons tied in, or they may be tacked with a cross-stitch of red worsted, and edged all around with two rows of briar stitch done in worsted. Into the overcast edge a double row of orocheted scallops may be worked. In the center, just below the turning over of the sheet, place a graceful bow of wide satin ribbon and tack it down with embroidery silk, the same color in a wfile-apart buttonhole stitch. Loops,

ends, and every part of the bow must be fastened down the same as in applique work.-—Good Cheer.