Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — NEW PATCHWORK IS PRETTY [ARTICLE]

NEW PATCHWORK IS PRETTY

Many Fresh Ideas Have Been Applied to Handicraft That Was Always a Favorite. The newest patchwork has a wonderful charm of its own. Quilts, cushions and the like made of it should sell well at one of the many charity harsnra which will soon be in vogue. You take, say, for a child’s coverlet, a square of quilted muslin, while for preference, and apply to it a wreath of flowers or fruit that you have cut out in washing silk or linen. '’’A. brown basket design filled with little oranges and lemons and grapes is handsome on a green or purple silk cushion. Cherries with their leaves are charming on pale, green linen. Serge and other woolen materials for foundation and appliques may be pressed, of course, into the service. Really the quaint and pretty possibilities that lie in the art of the new patchwork are endless. How glad one is that a fresh turn has been given to the dear old handicraft.