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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956,
PRACTICAL
Guest Towel Edging
MATERIALS:
Chinta
Mercer-Crochet No. 1 (20 Græn.), 2 balls White or Beru.
1 Ouest Towel, Milwards Steel Crochet Hook No. 1 (Sluck (workörs epuld use in No. 2 honk
und fight workers a No. 1).
MEASUREMENTS: 2 in. (3
<r.).
ABBREVIATIONS: 216 --chate, Rip stitch; de double crochet; his tr-half treble; tr- treblo; dbi It-clouble treble; sp-apace
EDGING
Commence with 3 ch.
In Row: 1 into bib eh from book (slirli made), 4 ch, tum.
2nd Row: 7 Ir in first 1.4 ch, turn Repeat 2nt row outil there sufficien
end of towel loving an uneven number of shells are mach
ustel omitting farning ch ut end of last repeul. Do not break oft.
HEADING
1st Row: vb. I te lule 4th fr of previous shelt, 2 ch, 1 t into ap ut turning ett of **1231-* shell, 2 ch. 1 tr Into 4th ir next shell on some long side Eepear fromeurling with 2 eh,
de into sp of turning cli rst at, 5 ch. turn.
of
2nd Row: * § de into next tr.
ch, te into next de. 2 ch:
stra Suding with 3 tr
into next r. 2 ch, 1 tr into 3rd
karen off
SCALLOPS
Join ihrend in turning eh loop before last shell, 7 ch, I de inte 3rd ch from book (pient madri,
sane turning cl work (1 dtr 3 el und plent; 4 times bu 1 dbl 12, * into next turn-
ing ch of next shell with *
ework 2 de and 1 hif ta, Into turning ch of next hell work (bl tr 3 eh und picot) times and thi tr; repeat from Lo end of the long side. Fusten off.
·
Sew to end of towel. tui re
HOMECRAFT
ANNE SHARPLEY
cables from Stockholm
CAN YOU HAVE
TOO MUCH
OF THIS? →
HR ERE they really love
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colour and comfort. This is
country where there are curtains m the telegraph office and the Domp cement mixers on the backs of lorries are striped ke barber's poles.
Round and round solemn - ly twirl the huge cones of cement yellow, red and purple, or green, yellow and black. It is absurd hot quite charming.
And 80. of course the
| Swedish home is, as one de-
In Sweden..
the land where design has almost become a religion where cement - mixers are striped like barbers" polos and even children are enthusiastic about furniture I hear a bored voice: "It is always the
One
of gets tired
same.
and
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it ...
* caption of miniature New York. I am bound to say that the elegantly Her daughter Monica, who patterned cobbles
which pave like her mother will be going every inch of this wonder town to London to study at the Royal were jolly hard on my feet.
Collego of Art, also has
Here are to be found the active wall.
enormous "family hotels" quite the most advanced
tousing scheme in the world today. visites ene at nearby Hasselby. than 300 familles Here mare Ilve, but It is all designed
pockel to keep a standard, the A combination of pine and red frock Swertion home has only kettles teak is the new thing in Swe- dublous intent, ef that shining superice order den now. The pine la
quite that in Beltajn seem only to matained and is given a clear pass one by in the pages of the silly plastle finish which casily slo y magazines.
wipes down. As in all unstained that the Swedish womart is plue there is a lovely pink flush by no
down the centre of the plunk erlour-blind
and such furniture has a charm- ng softly striped effect. But pine is very soft and so for the working surf
surfaces teak. hardest
cans
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THE BEAUTY.. OR THE BLEAKNESS
OF SWEDISH DESIGN
This is a study. The wall on the Tafe (1) in a glowing red.
On it hanga a Japanese plcture (2) of growing bambeo. But the picture ir terned on its side. The other wall (3) is of contrasting shade. On it is (4)... cupboard ? No - a place of modern art, a design in black and white, taking the place of the traditional mirror or picture. On the floor standa à foam rubber chale (5) and a moral ball (6) which was of the house goes to work. So part of the decorations in Pall of there is a restaurant (indeed 25
Mall during the Coronation. 2 month for adults La meals compulsory-co £40 10% month). All laundering cleaning exquisite modern pre
Around Hasselby picked up
EARLY APPRECIATION Settle in a chair, like a bent saucer, and feel like an oyster
signer put it to me, a "plat- their homes with the enthusi-woods, is used and stain- with its lid off while we discuss around the fact that the woman
form" for all this. Since one never seen anything but good design in things for the home it is difficult to see how the Swedish woman, even if she were a colour blind incompetent. could make mistakes.
asm and detall
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1:
of nil
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a rich
brown,
incompetent anyway. They all take the most animated interest in new de dans,
Even
husbands discuss w
unly เtis- Lovers chichl young genti men doing Interior
In derur Britala
There seems to be atmest regulation about having in the window sill and not just
plan's t our old frier.ds the philodendron, castor
oll and
rubber Here they get very
advanced with things like hiblacus
and other marvels I cannot name. A there are no cheap
and When they imported 700 Jan- nasty Kettles la try the will- terns (some as blg os gaso- Dow: when the is struggling moters) by the Japanese de- designs these rugs also de- knowing the difference between against the misgivings of one's signer Noguch they were gone signed a fabric That followed lovely and ugly things."
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costumes and sellings
an in the
why the Briton' is so far behind the Swede in oppreciation Cowhides (with their hair on) good design, are the thing to fling on your floor, and leather safari chairs
"It is a smaller country, easier
and for your table if you can afford to handle.
we give our Association of Industrial De- them. Royal blue and a brilli- ant apple green are the coleurs sign real power to make sale is done. There is a day nursery day nursery kitchen. It was the
fell. The British design beau- that would make
on the premises for children ser of thing I would love to tul jet airplanes and nobody you complains that they are beauti-
ful. We feel the samé abou things for the home. Classes are given in factories on design and, of course, children at school
hardly cscape
without
ing pink string rus are to combine, antt stuggy shock-
aink to your hocks Into are con- sidered very chic,
Mis
MOSAIC FABRIC
Viola Grasten
who can
a. Nash. Neguchi did the the atso-current craze for for The mosale-a mosaic coffee table production of King Lear that is a must. everyone got so cruss about,
those people
this is the
who complained
the give a home to." about Attings al Lendon Airport have same as you get in all hospitals Ja Sweden," she Bald dimost apoplexy.
thopping it with boredom is always the same, I am frod of seeing it,"
SATIATED?
Tottering round Vallingby over those muguishing cobbles with the
evening light making
Kreat buttresses of shadow on that
If you are not in at meal- times you collect a basket of ready pooked food and simply have to, warm at NEW WORLD
There are club rooms and the proud white verticals
are the homes of man today, I It was a mosale cobweb pal- hoim's underground traits
I am happy to say. Stock- even a church on the premises,
are and there is a school across the got a feeling of complete dis- If the Swedes had a King torn Intended for curtains
<he past and called
and neither as attractively designed road. It is assumed, however, Bociation from. "comph."
When
little from the future. the nor as comfortable as oura
that women will also want to even Swedish girls
It was as though nothing in saw "unmph"
end At the
of the
do their own cooking and Tum hundreds
of them bought for they have only one line so far chens go with each flat.
stunningly well-equipped k- the world had ever existed tre- fore-and where were we to go summer ekirts.
As an entire new world Mrs Astrid Sampe is one of
from here? The oldest thin and skyscrapers
shopping
furniture 1s All Sweden's
the leading
place were clearly designers squares all shot up in the last sophisticated and contemporary ancient and, alas, too-thin-soled my whose designs for carpels are three years.
us the crown-up variety. Buit having an exhibition in the This is Vallingby where 24,000 even perfection can reach calicty WORLD West End of London now,
Lear they would have been moro than enchanted to let Noguchi Rive him a face lift, however weird. Neguchi lumps have burst out like so many Incandescent mushroom alt over Stockholm.
SHOWCASES Even in their equivalent of Leicester Square this remorse- Jess interest in new designs goes on. There, if you can imagine tt, they have glass showcases l Art in the garden in the middle of the square,
Some of these showemus jul out into ornamental pools and It is sald, although I have not seen it, that some people
are
of
The
씹다
Her flat, where she lives with people are suddenly living in a it seems. The girl who took me her daughter, 17, and son of 14, 3 febulous and rather inde scribable. A list of cendents could rot
glve the overall effect. "This room is about yard too
narrow to be beauti- ful" salu blonde and high; Mrs Sanipr. " I painted the two and walls black, It brings the room together and that large mirror on the side wall widens
so fascinated by the displays of poltury in them that they walk it." round the casts and fili the waterl
Into
Design has become, I suppose,
VIVID COLOURS
a
influence will
almost the religion of Sweden. The Japanese Young couples, if they were not have US all creeping about both by training and
Instinct
well able to design their own
lower and
lower it stems.
SIMPLE BOLERO
MATERIALS: 6 oz. Munro-
spun 2 ply **Morning Hazo". wool. pair cach Nos, 12 and 14 knitting needles,
MEASUREMENTS:
Blist
Important,
36 ins. 10% Ins
Seats hava become tile more LEGION: 9 ats, to 1 in. home, need not be stumped, than cushions on the floor and Sweden's leading furniture indeed; in Mra Sampe's fat shop.
known es N.K., has department where there is consulting architect who
will reds. visit dheir home and bring them
smartly up to Swedish par.
one
gtx-
tensión cannot be obtained with " the needles stated.
To make a there are cushions all over the
correct floor, vivid purples, oranges and ment of the
size the above tension should be main- Noguchi tamps moon at
tained throughout. It is advis and she has some amusing little able to knit a small sample Neguchi rocking stools of two beloro beginning the garment AMUSING CHAIRS rounded discs of teak separated and to use 4 Giza larger pr N.K. has a budget shop for by a bunch of steel spokes on matter
smaller needle if the required young couples and the State which one can squat and rock Also helps with grant to get them started,
In her bedroom, Mrs Sampo ABBREVIATIONS: K, kalt; P. Even children got imperious has what she calls an "active" puri; et, or sta stich or stitches cbout furniture it seems. These wall. Here she sticks an artistic- in. or ins inch or Inches¡ amusing chairs that looks like a ally daft jumble of things-bits inc. increase(ing); déc. de- despairing, pancake propped by cut trem posters, photographs, creato(ing); beg. beginning: four knitting needles, are alt scraps of fabric, a ourl of con-cont, continue; fall, following: the rage. "Swedish children feel weed, and I noticed one of those rep. repeat; alt. alternale; stist, out of it if they do not have ridiculous British nettside post-stocking stitch. one," the salesman said.
#tenerous as one talks.
cards with a fat woman in a
BACK
Using No. 12 needles cast on 120 st. and work 12 rows in st.st. (c. 1 row. k, 1 row. py
New Culinary Tidbits antaly
By ALICE DENHOFF
TERE are some culinary groen grapes. Continuo scolding
Habits that
new interest to spring meals.
Dovilled calary maltes picasant eppetleer.
garnished with paprika.
A tsp. of· mixed pickling spleen in, aqinano of cheted a cloth males a world of differ- enco when you're bolling bland
Now cont, in st.st. and Ant
at both ends of the next and every foll. 4th row until there
shoca.
COPYRIGHT RESERVED London Express Servico,
are 184 ris. Then inc. at both cdro should now have din same and work in k.1, p.l rib untit ends of every alt. row until number of dopings as back). there aro 104-eta.
band is long enough to Borger Cast on 10 st. nt side edge from sido edge, round fronts Crist on 10 sts, at bog of next at jeg. qabat and fall, all row, and bark of neck to other slike. 4 rows (204 ata.),
Cont. without further shaping Cact off. Cont. without further shaping at sido edge but cont. to do ext until work measures 15 d. front edge on every 8th row. from beg
Shape shoulders: Cast off
12th, 14 sts. itmain.
BACK BAND
Coot 8 stalks with a stico of 150 much as cod or haddock. It is. at bog, of text 14 Tows. Cont. without further sharing Work for Frost Band witāl
lemon until tender Silce length goes well with salmon, too, and Coat of remaining 30 sts. wise in 3 in: ticies, Chill and gives the dah a now, and un- serve with
a dressing ot wudi flavour. dil, vinegar, dry mustard and fresh- Here's a new wpy: ly ground pepper poured over lamb leftovers.
.'
lo
trent
until work measures 15- - Ins. from beg, ending at side edge. Shape shoulder: Cast off 13 float hot next and each alt row 7 times.
RIGHT FRONTAL
LEFT FRONT Using No. 11 needles cast on the colery. Garnish with - Mix dp, cornstarch with 1 48 ctx, and k. 1 row, Cont. to paprika and chopped parsley. C. water. (If you have some work in st.st., Inc. at beg, at Smati potatoes, peeled and lamb gravy, substitute it for 1/3 next and every toll. alt. row at coolcod whole, can be served o, of the water), Bilr in a this the front edge, unul hard Using No. 12 noodles east on with o butter or marideinu „kuðu - current Jally, 1⁄2 e, organa fulco are 56 sis. rib, which you'yo added a (bap, and la. c. minced fresh mint Lot the potators deaves of tep, dried mint. Cook of paprike, bent in the sauce after draining, until thiejoodi stirring to pre-
Ever cook Brussels and green, gropes)
sprouts vont lumping, Together Add about 8 pices cold, cooks: they make manque di alam and the cooking Cooke & cr of sprouts, 18, mher thur bonne throurke bare then cåd 1.0, of halved, needed sauce with the ment, Serves 4,
48 als, and p; 1 row,: Cónt to Commence ide do cke work in alat and follow id on next and every foll, sth row structing as given for Le and cont, to the, në dront edge Tront, ojj overy 4th gow untit
02 ata) Now dec, ot front edge
on every 4th row not Inc. Hot
FRONT BAND
band mensures 15 ins. Cist dff. ARMHOLE BORDERS
With right side of wộc facing and using No. 14 needles pick up anzi k. 108 sia, around namhole edge. Work in k.1, p.1 ritmilbanki mènsures 1. jn. Cast off in ribi
TO MAKE UP
pin out and prese to corteot incasuremente: willy a hot: Jhon' over a damp cloth, “John! des and sleova podaria." Sow on tránh
en dit row Join should scars. Using and back bands, joining at sida until thero seo 70 ate. (Bjde for 14 neram cast on 12 steamount:" Fame vooTABULOUS