Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — Decorative Idea [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Decorative Idea

NOWADAYS, when the metal bed is the rule in almost all well ordered homes, there is a constant cry among the home decorators for ideas as to Its suitable covering. Many women, handy with the embroidery needle, are buying a square of the widest, heaviest white sheeting. This is cut out at the two lower corners, so that the bottom of the cover will hang free across the foot of the bed below the mattress. A wide border is hemstitched all around the edges of the cover, and the center is embroidered as elaborately or as simply as one desires. A monogram is often used, and when it combines three initials is most striking. When a set design is used for the. center the Initials can be put in one

corner in three separate letters, each about four inches in size. The design given may be placed as an inclosing form around the monogram. in the center of the spread, or several of the motifs may be used, with the initials in one corner. The work may be all white, or, in accordance with the fashion for a touch of color, may be done in a dainty shade on white, with a wide border of the same shade used to decorate the edge of spread. One-half of the design is given, to be transferred to the material by means of carbon paper and embroidered in satin stitch and kensington outline stitch. Omit the dots in the center if the motif is used with the monogram.