Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1918 — QUILTING IS EVER POPULAR [ARTICLE]

QUILTING IS EVER POPULAR

Style of Trimming Is Smart and Serves In Various Capacities to Add Beauty to Garments. - No manner of trimming is smarter than quilting this season, and beautiful Suilting is quite as difficult to do as eautiful embroidery. The stitches must be tiny and perfectly even, and the lines of. the pattern must be perfectly spaced, so that the design will show up effectively. A very handsome frock of midnight blue taffeta,- seen the other day, had a tunic bordered with 8 inches of quiltihg, and the pattern was repeated on the sleeves and on panels at back and front of the bodice. To make quilting of this sort the material is underlaid with very thin sheet wadding, and the quilting stitches are set through the outer material and wadding. Then the quilted portion is faced with thin silk or with the material of the frock, if it is not too heavy. Quilted angora is especially Sfnart just now. Vests of quilted angora show in the open fronts of new cape coats, and there are waistcoats of quilted angora for wear with street; suits. Such a waistcoat accompanies a taupe cheviot suit, the waistcoat being in lighter taupe shade, and the quilting is done with still fighter taupe silk. A blue cloth cape is lined with scarlet satin and has a blue angora vestee quilted elaborately with red silk.