THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1987.
PRACTICAL
Choose Your Colours First
MRS HOURI" HOURI- viser on what went with they picked up for a song. Reds,
is
an interior what in Lord and Lady royals, and purples,"
She has a weakness for what eighteenth- decorator who has pretty Blandford's violent views about subtle century mansion in Oxford- she calls "no" colours. They are so soft, muted, and neutraj that colours. She was chief ad- shire.
they don't clash or match with She is busy "helping" with any of the other colours in the the interiors of Jocelyn room
Her, favourite "no" colours are Only Pasha have them all-the Stevens's new country house in Flexible Platform, the Break-Hampshire. Her advice to young pale mushroom, dim grey-blue,
the proof Fleel.
British and couples in;-
dark, dark green American Lasts-all the features
By Joy Matthews that
ahoe wake Pasha. "The With the Beautiful Fit".
uged
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"Start first by deciding the three main colours you want to have in each room: the walls, the curtains; and the carpets,
Try them out in the rooms
they are meant for they may DON'T PLUNGE
look lovely in the showroom but completely different with a different light and a different view from the window."
HOMECRAFT
KNITTED MOTIF TROLLEY CLOTH
"
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21st Now: * yrn, PS, 12, yrd, Kl, yfd, K2, P3, 811, K1, peso, K1, K2 tog, P3, K2, yid, KI yfd, K2, PS, you, K1; repeat
from to end of row.
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22nd Row: P6, K7, PJ, KJ, P3, K7, PO, KI; repeat from to end of row (144 219),
MATERIALS: Coats 20th Now: * PB, KS, (P3, KB) Chain Morcer,Crochet No. twice, PS, K; repest from 10 20 (20 grm). 6 balls selected end of row (128 sta). colour. I set Milwards 'Disc' Knitting Needles No. 14.
TENSION: Size of Motif
41⁄2 in. (11.6 cm.).
MEASUREMENTS: in. x 221⁄2 in. (45.7 cm. x 57 cm.). 4 motifs x & motifs.
ABBREVIATIONS: K knit; P-purl; yfd-yarn forward; ym-yarn round needles; yon.... yarn. on
24th Now: (P7, KB) twice, needle; togtogether; st P, K1; repeat from to end of stitch; al-alip; paso-pa88 allp stitch over,
Motif
DIRECTIONS
Cast on 8sts (4 on needle and 3 on each of needles).
23rd Row: + yin, P, K3, yid, K1, ytd, Ka, P3, 81, K2 for psso, P3, K3, yfd. K1, yid, K3, Ps, yon, K1; repeat from to end of row.
row (160 sts).
25th Row:
ym, (PT, K4, rid, Ki, vid, K4) twice, FT, yon, Ki; repeat from to end of row.
20th How: P8, K11, PT, KI1, ole PD, K1; repeat from to end of twɔ, row (184 mis),
1st and 2nd Row: K. 3rd Now: * yid, Ki; repeat from to end of row (10 sla),
4th Row: K.
5th Row: As 3rd row (32 sta). 6th Row: K. 7th Row: yrn, P2, (ki, yta twice, K1, P2, yon, Kl; repeat from end of row,
*P3, K5, P3, K1; to end of ruy
8th How: repeat from (48 (5)
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Dlh Haw: * yra, P3, K2, yt, Kl. yd, K2, 13, yan, KI; re- pent from to end of row.
10th Row: repeat from sts),
P4, K7, P4, K}; to end of row (04
11th Now: yrn, P4, K3, yfd, K1, yid, K3, P4, yon, Ki; repent
from-to-end of row:---
12th Row: PS, KO, P5, K1; repeat from to end of row (80 st),
13th Row: ymn, Pb, K4, ytô, K1, yfd, K4, PS, yon, KJ; repeat from la end of row,
14th Row: PO, KI, PG, KI: repeat from to end of row (06 sts).
16th Row: yrn, P6, S11, XI, peso, K1, K2 top. PB, yon, Ki; repeat from to end of row.
16th Now: F7, K8, PT. KI; repent from to end of row,
17th Rowym, P3, yfd, K1, P3, 811, K1, Pso, KS, K2 tog, P3,yon, K1, yin, På, yon, Ki; repeat from to end of row.
DICHARD FORWOOD Ris a decorator who is
18th How! • P4, K4, P3, K7, fed up with seeing the same 3, K3, P4, K1; repeat from old contemporary style fur to end at row (112 ats). niture everywhere. Ho la 10th Rowi ym, P4, (KI, designing his own, and is yid) twice, K1, P3, Sil, K1, selling it direct to the so, K3, K2 tog, P3, (K1, yltd) twice, K1, P4, yon, K1; repeat public.
from to end of row.
"When you have picked the main colours, which you should pick all on the same day, then you can worry about pletures and accents of colour ilke lamp- shades and cushions**
thinies Mrs Hourian
"I hope to compete with the wall- papers should be kept for halls Scandinavian market," he told
"I believe in Individumi |
And
bedrooms. Other rooms me. should be done in beautiful subtic colours-"the while crazo, is going out," she added.
For colour-mad clients who want heelie colours somewhere | she does up one room as a joke room. "I usually pick an Impossible box-shaped room Then I put in the mad wall- Papers they love. The junk bits
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27th Row: yra, P8, S1, K1, psso, K7, K2 tog, P7, 51, K1, psso, K7, K2 tog, P8, yon, Ki; repeat from to end of row.
28th Row: * P9, K9, 17, K0, . P9, K1; repeat from to end of row (118 sts).
29th Row: yra, Po, S1, KI, peso, K5, K2 tog, P7, SI, KI, paso, K5, K2 tog, P9, yon, KI; repeat from to end of row.
30th Row: P10, K7, P7, 167, P10, K1; repent from to end of row (188 sis).
31st Row: yrn, P10, S1, K1, psso, K3, K2 log. P7, S, KI, psso, Ka 12 tog, P10, yon, Ki; re- pent from to end of row.
-32nd Row: P11, K5, P7, I, P11, K1; repeat from to end of row (160 zx).
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33rd flow; * yrn, P11, 911, K1, pro, E1, K2 tog, P, SI, KI, pazo, K1, K2 tog, P11, şun, Kj. repeat from * to end of row.
54th Row: P12, K2, PT, KJ, P12, K1: repeat from to end of row (152 eta).
35th Row: yrn, B12, S11, K2 tog, paso, P7, $11, K2 tog, paso, P12, yon, Kl; repent from to end of row.
36th Now:
from to end of
37th Now!
A MAN-SIZED PULLOVER
H
over
P36, K1; repeat
TTERE'S & man-sized pull- row (144 sts).
you can make yid, K35, yid, yourself. It's designed for to end of row. 2-ply wool but you could K2, (yid, K2 tog) (kait it up in cotton or orlon repeat from to yarn, if you make sure the
tension is right.
1; ropeat from
38th Now: 17 times, K2; end of row.
30th Now: • yen, P37, yon, Kl; repeat from * to end of
row.
Cast off very loosely.
Mako 10 more motifs in same manner. Over cast edges
mollis.
.
It's designed to fit n.36- 98 inch bust, and the ten- slon is four stitches to one inch on No. 6 needles,
You need 18 ounces of 10ether to from 4 rows of 2-ply wool which is used at treble thickness through- Domp and pin out to racasure-out, a pair each of No. 6.
No. 9 and No. 10 needles.
FRONT
ments,
Anne Scott-James
ON PARTY GIVING
T'VE been talking to some for its longus,
THEY AGREE on candlelight
ing as well. "so you can see people who are adept at clearly what you're picking at."
With No. 6 needles cust on 80 stitches, using three balls of wool together. Change to No. 9 needles.
1st row: Knit 1, wool forward, slip 1 puriwise,
Repeat from * to the last the single-handed dinner
THEY AGREE on tablecloths, stitch, Knit 1. party. (Butler fooiman
Everything was suggested, trom circles requiro no help from tarian linen to pink organdle, wool to front of needle, slip 2nd row: Knit 1, * bring me.)
puriwise,
though for a formal party white
beloved, 1 damask is still bost
wool over Though each hostess has Even the protllest mats do not needle, knit 2 together. Mr Forwood thinks that dishes and gimmicks of her dress the table enough.
Repeat from to last stitch, young couples who come into own, certain key ideas were THEY AGREE you must Knit 3. his ahop and buy £509 worth of repeated over and ovor leam to plek good, inexpensive furniture in Ave minutes, and
The second row rose, Macon, the
forma Then spend the next five years again. Four entertainers in wines-vin
to mo: light Austrian white wines. the pattern, repeat it until paying for 1, are foolish,
one morning sald They usually
three- "Only
For six people, perhaps one the work measures 4 inches hate
one hot dish, but quarters of it before the year is that must be firat cláss.”
bottle of white and two of red, from the beginning. Change rather than three the same, toto No. 6 needles and Anished.
make it a full-dress meni.
tinue in the pattern, until THEY AGREE that flowers the work measures 16 the clever single- are a mistako All
on the table inches. Cast off 8 stitches
Screens uro mukhg a com« back, according to young in- terior decorator Jon Bannen-
@
ber. They are top prizes for handed party givers agres Unless your dowers are kept the people who hount the antique shops and hunt through that, rich or poor, you must low and salt they get in the at the beginning of
give a feeling of luxury. One way. If you need, a centrepiece, next 2 rows. * luxury dish or a glass of most prefer a group of cardles
or a dish of fruit.
the loa muricets.
Only 4
But
hand
con-
the.
10
COLLAR
Work on the other
SLEEVES
With No.
next 2 rovɛ. Leave the re- puri row. They can be practical-to stop
Keeping the continuity of the mainder of the stitches on a side of the slit to match. the draught, or screen off odd, champagne as a cocktail can
rib, in the next row work across stitel holder. ugly tomers in a room, or hide carry a meal which is other
BUT THEY DISAGREE 33 stitches, turn. Leave the the carcar girl's washbasin' in
about where to cook. Shirley remaining 33 stitches On a
necdles, cast on wise very inexpensive. her one large room.
Conran, who entertains a lot of spare needle. Continue Or they
G stitches. Change to No. 9 can be just plain pretty.
writers, work on the hrst 32 sutches THEY AGREE that three young designers and
With the right side of the needles.
1st row: Knit 1 wool for "But if you scout around, you courses is the right sized meat has an open-plan living-room. only, until the work measures can occasionally, pick up a pair terved cold-hot-cold,
work facing, plek up but do not and likes to
dishes 224 inches. Finish at the outer knit, the 10 stitches on the ward, slip one puriwise, knit 1. of shutters from a house that is marvellous cook can do two hot straight from the cooker to the edge.
halder, 10 stitches up the side Repeat from to the last stitch, Now work in rib for 4 tablo. being demolished, and all you courses without getting Buster have to do is get them hingeded and having too much last-
Nex rows work 22 stitches of the neck, 20 stitches on the knit 1,
Change to No. In rib, then slip the next 10 holder at the back, 10 stitches Inches. logether and painted white.
minute dishing-up.
down the side of the neck and needles and, continue until the "Another idea I've used a lot
Austrian stitches -tho famous
onto a sich holder.
on the remaining sleeve measures 20 Inches. Cast THEY AGREE on the im- cocks-book writer, Gretel Beer, Decrease 1 stitch at the begin 10 stitches is felt. It comes in enormously
of in rib. next and overy stitch holder. wide pieces ond good colours, portance of the way cocit dists in southing about cooling at the ring of the
following row on the centre Next rowi. Knit 1 wook for.
TO MAKE UP and you can stretch it on a light looks, and of the dith you mrvo leble. wooden freine. And if you want it in.
You know that joke about jedge until there are 18 stitches, ward, slip one puriwise, knit 1. For instance, lovely
Repeat from to the int Sew the cast-off edge of the it to look more fun and allabtly casseroles that come from the the eye-level gtill,” she said, work 1 inch, Cant dit,
straight of the can spit fat in your
stitch, Kriit 1. Now continue aicevo to the mad, you can have a harlequin oveh to the Jable. Black pot "that it
The first 3 inches of Work the other ride to match, in rib for 6 inches, using No. annhole. tery screen using different coloura,
without your having to for butter, eye
gr needios, Cast off in rib. the side of the sleeve are to "Prettiest screens I've over Baskets for bread or teant, bend down.
BACK
Using No. 10 needles and 2 bo sewn to the cart-off edge of had made wero of Japanese slik Cheeses served on straw.
all this chafing dish cookery. It
strands of wool, only, and with the armhole, Sow up the sleeve wallpaper in all the ravishing
Silver must be beautifully you make the slightest mistake, Work as for the front as far the right side of your work and sido seams. Tym the stock- Oriental colours mounted on
you have juice on the table-fos", Continue alwight until the facing you, pick up 10 alitches ing stitch edge of the slit under, canvas, stretched on a wooden polished....
But food Itsalf should never cloth, fumes in the air, and a work measures 24 inches from from the neck to the end of and slip attich it on the wrong frame.
by over-decorated. "Garnished Bingering well. I cook strictly the beginning, then cast off 18 the st. Work one inch in side, then slip stitch at the buse
in the kitchen,”
'stitches at the beginning of the stocking-stitch. Cast off on this and along the base of the collag By Joy Matthews but not Technicolour."
"I feel the same way about