Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1918 — GINGHAM PLAIDS ARE USED [ARTICLE]

GINGHAM PLAIDS ARE USED

Needlework Also Calls for This Popui lar Material for -Numerous Pur- ' poses About the Home. ' Everything Is taking to gingham plaids, even needlework. And this is not to be wondered at when you consider how neat and symmetrical for practical purposes the gingham check and plaid can be. Here it is applied to the end of a useful scarf or runner

in 18-inch width. The gingham part of It is simply a matter of outlining those squares with neat stitches in one color, most likely blue, or any color to match the general scheme of your room. This-scarf may be stamped on linen, if you can afford that luxury—or doily cloth, cotton rep, lawn, batiste, crash tow’eling or linene. It will not be hard to do this stamping yourself; merely repeat the design on each end of the scarf. In this way you can make it as long as you like, and should you not want an 18-inch width you can reduce it to 15 very easily by removing the last row of squares on each' edge. The design remains exactly the same, but not quite so wide. Now as to treatment, you will find colors the best choice "Instead of all white. Let the squares he outlined with the color you want to emphasize. Note that the intersections of these lines are interrupted by a cluster of lour small single stitches of another color and a knot of a third color.