THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1958.
PRACTICAL
HOMECRAFT
CARDIGAN IN OPEN CABLE STITCH
NEVER SO QUICK FROM PALACE TO PUBLIC!
HE
new course
Materials:
9 oza. Sirdar Majestic ply wool. 1 pair of esch No. 11, 12 and 13 needles. 7 buttons.
Measurements:
To fit n 36 inch Bust, · Tension:
7%1⁄2 sta. to 1 inch. Abbreviations:
K. kmit; p. purl; at stitch;
of camel hair for £13 123. 8d. In yards of French bread cut into st.st. stocking stitch; inc.
for the border. (Rib 11 ata, inc. in the next st.) 5 times, rib to end of row,
Now work as given for the right front, but reversing the shaping by reading the 10th row for the 9th row, and the 9th row for the 10th row.
SLEEVES
Using No. 13 needies, cast on
64 sta., work in k.1, p.1, rib for 3 inches. Change to No, 11 needles.
Thorin Courtain of camel hair for med 123. 8d. Itk yards of FT cheese, scrambled increase; dec. decrease; beg, times, P. to end. (59 mts.)
from Princess to public, and never has the copying been so quick as now.
Three times recently the British dress trade has proved that what a British Princess wears today almost anyone else eun wear tomorrow....in" an identical version if you have the cash or in a first-rate copy if you haven't.
Alexandra's Princess honey-coloured fur coat which she wore at a London wedding, is on sale at 200,
new
Next row: (P.10, p.3 tog,) 5
13. In a camel coloured wool eggs, liver pate, and sausage beginning: tog. together: Now work in patt. as given
velour 60%. 11d.
Frincess Margaret's diamond butterfica which she wore in her hoir when she visited the Royal Ballet.
have been copted in paste end
mounted on giant hairping for 16. Ild. and 9s.
lid. each.
Just push two or three into your hair wherever you think they look prettiest,
Party_plan
Some useful advice for teenago party-the kind that la casy to give but easy to boob over too---comes from Lady Casson),
rolls. And lots of Fruit.
"For
there
w.r.-wool round needle; for the back, but inc. 1 st. at drink they get orange w.b. wool back; al. slip; rep, both ends of the 7th and every juice, beer, and wine, No spirits, repeat; cont. continue; patt. are 109 nts. Cont. without fur-
following 0th row until I tried making a fruit cup last:
didn't like it pattern, Figures in brackets ther shaping until sleeve mea- year, but they because they don't like things worked the number of times sures 175 inches in the centre that are what they call 'mucked as stated. around with."
they
have only
N.B. When shaping, and "At that age it's a waste of
a made at. with 2 tog. st. timo to give them anything elaborate, Бо for equipment come at edge, work K.2, or glasses and P.2 sts. instead to obtain a paper serviettes. No Imives and firm edge. This applies to forks. They use thele angers all shapings.
For dancing "What they are most inter- This year ested in is dancing. we barrowed a studio and hired u students band, which was Otherwise very good Indeed.
The copy is identical in cut, down to the slits at the hem and the scarlet brocade lining.
Every detail bas been cople," said Mr Cyril Ross, the managing director of the "The girls (daughters Carola, furriers who have made this 1 and Nicola, 14) give one
we should have had long-play- lightning copy, "except for the party together, which lasts from very he diamond brooch." But B.JU to 12.30. They sending records. They only like to The coat, in honey-coloured out something like 60 invitation live, and they dress completely 303 separates and aged between informally musquash, is on sale in two curds to friends
and 45 in.
11 and 19. In
full skirts. They are always sizes, 43in.
"1 give length.
them the simplest ather insistent on that. snacks and put them round the room for the guests to help themselves when they want to:
Princess Anne's camel coat (which she wore to a hunt meet) can be bought in 75 per cent
Look to Misters
LAVENDA
for the latest in wool
All star cast includes
*
widest colour range.
this season's fashion colour. all-plys plus speedy
DOUBLE CREFE Lavenda the only wook the fashion with
twist (knits up firmer, rounder, smoother, and evenly.)
ON SALE AT LEADING
DEPARTMENT STORES AND SHOPS
IN HONGKONG AND KOWLOON.
Sole Agents:
•
FIELDING, DROWN & FINCH, (FAR EAST), LTD.
Whether it's
"This year Carola wore black and white skirt, a black jersey, and high-heeled shoes, Titcoin wore pink silk skirt, a green cummerbund, and a white
yton shirt, with low heels.
"They organise
They
BACK
128 sts, work in kl, pl, rib for Using No. 13 needles cast on
Inches.
Next row: Rib 10 sta, inc.
of the work.
Shape Top
Cast of 5 sts. at the bet. of the next 2 rows, then dec. 1 sh at the beg, of every row until 60 sta remain. Then dec, 1 st. nt both ends of every row 20 sts. remain. Cast of. Right Front Border
until
Using No. 13 reedles join wool to the 12 sis. left for the border the beg. of the row, then cont. at the inner edge, ine. 1 L u
to work in rib making further buttonholes with 18 rows bo-
In the next st, rep., from to tween each until 7 in all have last 7 sis, ril 7 (139 st.).
Work in patt, as follows:- lat row: K.1, k2, p2 tog wrn., p.1, rep, from to last
3 sis.. k.J.
2nd row: K.1. p.2, w.b., s.1, k., p.s.s.o., w., k.. rep. from ** to last 3 sit., p.2, k.l.
Rep, the last 2 rows 3 times more.
8th row: K.-1, * K.2, p.2 tog. w.r..., p.1.lp the next 2 sis.
a good deal on to a cable needle and leave at front of work, k5, then k2 of the party themselves. send out the invitations, dealsts. from the cable needle-(this with the answers, get the room in future will be referred to as and the food ready. I just see cable 2 ata.) p.3 tog, wrn, P., k.2, p.2 tog. w.r.n, p.1, rep. from to last 18 sts, k2, p.2 to
thut it gets done.
"I like to go to the party, 100,
because it's the only time I ever r., p.1, cable 7 sts, p.2 tog,
meet all their friends.'
Forgot it!
Please don't say it again.......... This drip-dry tabries don't need ironing (they always need little pressing, though they can be pressed dry)....that nylon dries in a flash (It depends on the thickness)....
That you can keep kiteben soft-furnishings clean simply by
|
w.r.n., p.1, 3.
10th row: As the 2nd row. 11th to 18th rows: Rep. the 1st and 2nd rows 4 times.
19th row: K1, (2, p.2 tog. w.r.n, p.1) 3 times, * cable 7 pts. p.2 tog, wr.n., p.1, (12, p.2 tog, w.r.n. p.1.) twice, rep. from to last 3 sts., k3.
20th row: As the 2nd row. These 20 rows form the path. Change to No. 12 needles, work another 20 rows, then change to No. 11 needles. Cont. without
been made. Then cont. in rib until border will it up the front
edge and to half WBY across back of neck. Leave sta, on u safety pin. Join wool to the 12 gts, for the left front, Inc. 1 st. at the inner edge, then work in rib for length required,
MAKING UP
Pin out all pieces of work and Press on the wrong side under a a hot Iron, avoiding all ribbing. damp cloth with
Join the shoulder seams. Set in the sleeves. Join the sleeve and side scams, Graft or cast off together the border stitches to come exactly centre back of neck. Sew borders to fronts and neck edges. Sew on buttons to
correspond with buttonholes. Press the scams.
DON'T GET TRAPPED BY ALL THIS
COLOUR-DICTATING STUFF!
wiping them over with a wet shoping until work measures HEY say that:-
THEY
Cast off re-
11
BLUE is
cold colour. Nonsense. It de pends on the blue-and the room.
get
hand-woven six of it or only one-in china,
silver, beds, Just anything."
Newest for the kitchen
for kitctions ... less blue and white:
more
IN GLASGOW. the newly- oatmeal or white weds spend on average of £300 rugs. cloth (don't buy anything that 13 inches from beg
"I've been trying to on furniture, according to twu can't be tubbed to get rid of Shape armholes
builders to do it over here, but of the biggest stores.
added steam and grease)....
Cast of 5 siz at the beg. of
they are still flinching," they spend Mr Peters. In OXFORD, That you can keep a pale bag the next 2 rows, then dec. 1 st. or pale shoes clean just by of the beg, of the next 10 rows
about £200 if it's a house, or FROM THE BIG CITIES: sponging them down (they need Cont wkhout further shaping
And over half the simple and cheap idea of &OOK out 280 on a fat. Ilquid wax until work measures 211⁄2 inches VERY dark colours make the sales are for modem de- sponding plus a
sun deck, putish)....
from beg
a room look dismal. One signs, say the shops.
A small sun doek taking three colour, more natural wood That kid gloves will wash (If Shape shoulders
of the nicest rooms I know
The kitchen divider or side- or four sun-worshippers should
board They're shy of doing--them- cost around £30. you're not very careful they dry Cast off 10 sis. at the beg. of a forest green with pink salves in Suffolk. In IPSWICH
that is a mixture of like a crisp, so buy washable the next & rows,
"But If you can make it your puinted wood and natural wood there are sude next time).
paint-very Provencal. The alone
32 Interior self it would cost even less," he ft's in the shops now. Pretti maining sta.
and shopy
said. other is painted shiny black. decorating firms,
est colour combination was red, report that home handymen It looks wonderful.
grey, and white, mixed in with won't tackle much more than a
Hight wood Price: £24 128. 04.
The coloured wooden bench--- *- painting job.
it's in the shops now. Prettiest I saw was in grey and yellow with white legs. To sent three breakfasters. Price: 25 10. Od. The country farmhouse look in pale waxed pinewood. There's a whole range Including cug- boards, cabinets, sink unita, una shelves. All tops are in plastic in variety of colours; sinks are stainless steel at the top.
That cleaning liquids remove every stain (there are some they take off and some they make ❘ worse)..
That knitted clothes don't drop (they do unless they are backed, so look for the kind of hem you can turn up-come loose knit can't be hemmed). ....That anything-anything al all-will clear skin spots over- night or get the washing-up dune in a trice.
-VERONICA PAPWORTH
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RIGHT FRONT Using No. 13 needles, cast on 70 sts, work 4 rows in k., p.1, rib.
1st buttonhole row: Rib 4 sts. cast off sts, rib to end of row, 2nd buttonhole row: Rib to the last 4 sts, cast on 3 sis, rib to end.
YOU can make a small room look bigger by painting - the walls diferent colours. Why bother? A small rooms is n amall
room.
100-high
But one SWANSEA shop nus branches selling eight local do-it-yourself equipment.
They don't sell expensive
and Scandinavian
Italian YOU can make a
modern furniture in PLYMOUTH Cont. to work in rib making room look lower by painting because they find the only people further buttonholes with 18 the ceiling dark. Not true who want it are the arty types rows between each until work you just keep looking at the who can't afford it measures 31⁄2 inches from beg, celling. ending at the side edge.
Next row: (Rib 11 sts, inc. ia the next st.) 5 times, rib to the last 12 sts. Leave these sts. on
a safety pin for the border.
"Customers know 09
much
WHITE L impractical? I about furniture these days as now one white bedroom that we do ourselves," says the man-
ot
MANCHESTER pas slood the test for 20 years ager
I have a white bedroom myselt store's furnishing department.
.. and I live in one of the "They come in armed with Work the 09 sta. as given for dirtiest parts of London, White magazines and newspaper cut-
the back, but reading the 9th palt. row and the 19th patt
It it's a gift-take it away
They can be wiped over and won't scratch unless you really But your heart on scratching.
Prices: from £12 for a wall rupboard with sliding doors, to £40 15s, ba. for a stainless steel doesn't show the dirt any more tings of pleces they have seen,
and stick to what they want, than pastels do.
HERMAN SCHRIJBER, a de- topped sink unit with three
divides There is a terrifle boom in 1a corator who
his cupboards and two drawers. STRIPES are out. Not if you contemporary furniture which clients Into three categories:
Newest for the like stripes.
is outselling the traditional. Millionaires, rich millionaires, But Italian and Scandinavian and very rich millionaires, can
nursery have only small sales, Cus- still give sound advice to the tomers prefer British goods penniless. THAT stripping furniture similar but cheaper." 19th patt. row: K1, (k2, p.2 ruins it. It doesn't-and any- tog.. w..., p.1) 3 times, rep.
rows as follows:-
9th patt. row: K.), then rep. from to of the Dth patt. row of back twice. k2, p.2 tog., w.r.n. p.1, cable 7 sts. p.2 tog, w.r. pl. (k-2, p.2 tog, wri, p.1) twice, k3.
from to" of 19th patt. row of way you can revarnish it if you Leopards all over back, twice, cable 7 sis., p.2 tog.. THAT the Victorian look 19 wrn, pl. kg.
wish.
Cont. to work thus changing drawing-room.
to No. 12 needles
the prettiest thing out for a Have you ever authentic Victorian
when oneven
complete patt. has been work-drawing-room? They were ab
ed then work another 20 rowsolutely hideous.
of putt. after which cant.
сп
GREEN is depressing. No! a No. 11 needles without shaping bit of it. A palo ferny green is until work measures 12 inches from beg, ending at the frontune of the
best background
edge. Then in continuity of the colours I know-and very rest-
ful.
patt. dec. 1 st. at the tront edge THAT the only good taste is
at beg. of the next row and
every following 3rd row untilighteenth century. Some of it work measures 131⁄2 inches from was, and some of it wasn't.
the same in 1958, beg, ending at the side edge. Shape armhole
Cast of 5 sts. at the beg, of the next row. Then dec. 1 st
surce
the place
I TANLEY PETERS, the inter
for decorator who is always on the move, has just come back Best-seller all over from San Francisco, where he attended the "Tour de Decor”-- Britain
great interior decoration ex- hibition.
Idens he picked up from
TERES my eve-of-the-show
round-up of the provincial America, are:
ROOM you HAVE to redo- "My advice to any young
corate, whether you like it is that new nursery. or not, couple setting up on next-to- nothing is to accept simply any- Prettiest one I've seen hadn't a thing that is FREE
druin of pink paint or blue cle- "Take away as much as you phants to be seen.
The owners were the three possibly can from home, even if
it is only a ghastly old chest of children of Lady Rendleshams, drawers
or a tattered carpet. who hates The less you have to buy when nurseries you set up home the botter.
nhout
the pastel look for
"I see no reason why child- "You can then take your time ren should spend their days and deciding what you nichts in pastel nightmares. I've REALLY want to have. Balter papered the day nursery In to hate your mother's horrid old washable wallpaper patterned table you got for nothing, than with pink and green roses in a the shiny new one that cost blue trellis.
"Bufl-in toy cupboards Bru £20."
also papered so thut they look There's, ond part of the wall. big old table that gets kleiped around, and cheap wood chairs that get painted once a year."
15
Mr Schrliber believes pleasing yourself in decoration -not your friends, however helpful and full or taste they
ure,
at the armhole edge on he next 3 alternate rows, but at the same time dec. 1 st. at the front
"If you like scarlet and yel-
Lady Rendlesham hates shiny FROM SAN FRANCISCO: edge every following 4th row trendi
asko lino for children: Instead of every 3rd., until #0 "Cream paint is on the way A round dining table with a full low, then for goodness
"I have a leaf green needies sts. remain. Then cont, without
moy disapprove, cord carpet that is hard-wearing further shaping until work mca-out in BIRMINGHAM," accord- skirt of imitation leopard skin HAVE scarlet and yellow. Your
ing to Peter Haynes, who runs chales covered in leopard. The orty friends the same as back to
a colour studio.
table was decorated with all the but you'll have what you want, and will res the children out
and you cun always change it through their teens. shoulder shaping, ending at the
"Our clients aro fur more orange frulis imaginable,
"The curtains are bright pink "The effect was very exotic, later if they prove right."
and tho armhole edge.
colour-conscious, and like bright
he His pet aversion-matched felt draped prattly, Shapa shoulder
colours to go with their modern and very Roman looking,"
Tamp is an overhead gas where things of any kind sald. Cast of 10 xts, at the beg, of furniture.
"The matched-up look is so Inquisitiye Angers can't reach- the next row and the next
We have quite a demand for FROM CALIFORNIA; Houses clematis--a bright purple based on the Japanese, built of out of date. Just as, in fashion, a converted ell lamp.
"The night nursery is peperod which people would have laugh- wood, with sitting-rooms, din- the casual look te fa, so it ly in
Ing-rooms and kitchens all one decoration. Matched suites look again, carpated with deep belga ed at a year or two 190.”
servanticas 20 years out of date these days, needlecord and curtained with A big store in NOTTINGHAM room. Ideal for
"Even, la chiqa, the odd plate while glazed chintz which has 28 sts, work in k.1, p.1, rib for says its average newly-wode households. 131⁄2 inches.
pend £300-2400 on furniture, Floors et coloured concrete or cup is good. But the nicest been up two and a half yeare, Ned row: Rib 12 st. and and anything up to £120 on marvellous in red or bright blue thing of all is to buy what you and still doesn't need cleaning.
-JOY MATTHEWS leave those sts. on a safety platbedroom suites.
alternate r°C. -
LEFT FRONT
Using No. 13 needies cast" on
polished, and littered with want, and not mind if there are