CHINA MAIL, HOME SUPPLEMENT
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Make your own home
Build-up furniture.
One occasional table:
One on one: a corner cabinet.
One by one: a dressing table.
Furniture comes in Units."
It grows as you add to it.
URNISHING ABRIC'S
FURNIS
STRIPED & CHECKED
TWEEDS
SMART RANGE OF
• COLOURS
48" wide at $0.75 per yd.
48" wide at $1.00 per yd.
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wide at $1.25 per yd
48" wide at $1.50 per y
48′′ wide at $195 per yd.
THE
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E like houses which can have rooms and wings added. We like furniture which can grow with our houses and. our purses. Designers, as you see from the pictures on this pare. have harnessed this trait and made furniture which starts modestly enough and then grows up, or across. Above
you see a table shaped like a particularly generous piece of pie. It is practical in a room, cheap and goodlooking. When the time comes that, you can have two, you have gained not a second table so much as a dressing table. When you final- ly acquire a third, you pile the threesome up, one on top of the other, and make a what-not.
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A Garden Bunch Cushion
TTERE is a cushion-cover you can embroider in an even- ing or so Try to copy and en- large the design, trace it on to one piece of cream linen, and you're all set to begin
You will need: two pieces of cream linen. 22 inches by 19 in- ches: one skein each of "Anchor" Flox in two shades of blue, magen- ta, and greet, and ong éich of yel low and crzrke.
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The depiiniums are clusters buttonhck-ngs in two shades of blue, with a magenta cross-stitch
for each centre.
The flower at the top of the clus- ter is yellow, with magenta lines taken across the centre, caught down where they cross with tiny green stitches, in a circle of. Fel- low stem-stitch. The inner petal- circle is satin-stitch and the outer one buttonhole-stitch.
To the left, below, there is an orange flower-two circles of but- tonhole-stitch with the centre in two shades of green.
The flower to the right has sin- gie magenta stitches in a circle of pale green stem-stitch for centre. The petal-circle is pale blue bo
To the right there is another orange flower, and the tulip, to the right again, is yellow.
Beginning at the left of the lower
row, the first one is orange with a magenta centre, next, a magenta flower with a yellow centre. The last big flower has, an outer circle.. of pale blue battonhole-stitch, an inner one of satin-stitch and single magenta stitches in the centre
The smaller flower below is deep. blue buttonhole-stitch with an or- ange centre and the bud is a.mag enta buttonhole-ring
The leaves are worked in two shades of green Roumanian stitch and the stems in green stem-stitch-
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