Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — TEA COSY OF NOVEL SHAPE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEA COSY OF NOVEL SHAPE

Fite Over Teapot Easily and Is More Ornamental Than the Ordinary Affair. In our sketch may he seen a tea cosy of a somewhat novel shape, and it is quite as simple to make as an ordinary cosy, and It will be found to fit over the teapot much more easily, and Is also more ornamental. The colors of the materials for a tea cosy should always be selected to harmonize with the tea service witji which it Is to appear, and the cosy from which our sketch as made was carried out entirely in blue and white. , ’ . , It is composed of six separate panels, and each one may more or less be

completed before being sewn togeth6T. ■. The side of the cosy facing yon in the sketch shows the shape, in which each panel should be cot out, and in this instance white satin was used, and the conrentional design shown worked in dark blue silk- Mach piece

must be well padded with wadding, and then the whole six portions are' sewn together at the edges, the seam* afterwards being hidden with a blue and white silk cord, which Is curled into three little loops at the top and forma a kind of handle by which it may be lifted. The little on the right-hand side shews how wonderfully well this sh&pe fits over any ordinary teapot. The cosy should be lined with soft silk, and instead of having the same design on each panel they can be varied If desired, and there are numbers of transfer patterns of suitable designs that are easily obtainable at a* trifling cost, that may be used tor this purpose.

Hexagonal Ten Cosy.