Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1916 — TURN AGAIN TO PATCHWORK [ARTICLE]

TURN AGAIN TO PATCHWORK

Old Fashion Is Being Revived —Scrim as a Material for the Curtains.

Piecing the old-fashioned patchwork quilt is again. a popular occupation. Nursery quilts are made of heavy cotton or linen sketched with designs to be worked with floss, Mother Goose figures being favorites. Simple patterns done in blue and white or rose and white chambray are chosen for boys’ rooms. The mystic rose design, now popular, calls for a pale pink calico, a rose shade, a rich red and the right shade of green for foliage. The morning-glory pattern of rose and French blue calico, is also a favorite. The “four patches” calls for a white background dotted with tiny pink rosebuds. For a colonial bed the old log cabin design Is choßen. Loosely woven gray scrim, which is Inexpensive, would make extremely good-looking curtains for your living room or library. Use the selvage as a finish for the sides and across the bottom; hemstitch a two-inch hem. An unusual way to decorate the curtains is to embroider a stencil pattern In greens and bronze. A quaint foliage pattern would give the right effect. Place the stencil on the curtains, and with a pencil mark the pattern. By holding the pencil in an upright position and following the cut line of the stencil board, the outline pan be readily traced. Simple, sketchy stitches should be used for the embroidery, as a light shadowy effect Is desired. Another unique color combination is dull silver and orange; then when the light shines through the curtains the embroidery will emit a bright bit of color. This sort of curtain will

look especially well In a room where blue is the dominating color.