1958-02-01 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1958.

PRACTICAL

DESIGN YOUR

By JOAN O'SULLIVAN

SPROGAS

BAN

BODROOM

13-8 12 2

BEDROOM 10-49-8

THE THE Highland's a split A level home with special features. They'rs found on the lowest level of the house, where the architect has put space to work in a way home-makers will like.

Recreation Room

room on the main floor. It's a small area but, since opens on the living room, it ia. seems larger than it Walls don't hem it in,

an entire wall-long ward- It robe. Both corner rooms

are cross-ventilated,

The Highland comprises THE MAIN LEVEL is at front, while, at back, the bedroom

placed lovel is over recreation room. 19,610

The living room's lovely, has a vaulting celling that's quite dramatic and a pretty picture window looking out This basement floor, on the front yard. under the bedroom level,

The kitchen's at far right boasts a recreation room, of the main floor, adincent more than

long, to the dining room. It's a cheerful work centre, with a window at the front and a

20 feet

that's bound to be the scene of family entertain- ing or, if the children are small, would make

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wonderful playroom. Close by, there's a bathroom.

The floor also has a nice sized laundry room.

Up a short flight of stairs and you're in the dining

service door at the side,

Up a few short steps from

the living room in the bed- room floor. Rooms open off a balcony hall visible from level. Closet the lower

the largest bed- space in room is quite generous

cubic feet.

Look to disters

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For your favorite Valentine

for

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LIVING ROOM, dinette and kitchen share space on the main floor. On the top level, there are three comfortable bedrooms and a bath.

of

RECREATION ROOM

26-4x+10°

FOYER

DN.

AUNDRY 1-1010

A LARGE RECREATION room occupies most the lowest level. Adjacent to it is a laundry room and, close by, a small bathroom.

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

A hanger is not a good place Instead, fold sweaters care- a sweater. It tends to fully and keep them in a niretch the sweater out of shape, drawer, preferably in plastic as the shoulders are apt to slide bags, of the ends.

(Valentine's Day — Fob. 14)

·Match-mates: Pioneer co-ordinated ribbed clastic belt and silk tie in colorful slim stripes are made for each other, and for the man who eppreciates good taste

Pioneer

the mark of a man

Many of the heavier wool jerseys are now guaranteed not to tag. This is a quality worth watching for in a coat or sult, Jersey, of course, is an excellent traveller, since it does wride when packed.

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HOMECRAFT

OWN HOME

KNIT

MATERIALS:

(8) 10 oz. of Sirdar Double Knitting wool.

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pair of each No. 7 and 9 needlca. 3 buttons.

· MEASUREMENTS:

To it age (9) 14 months.

TENSION:

11 sta. to 2 inches on No. 7 needles.

ABBREVIATIONS:

K. knit; p. purl; st. stitch; st.st. stocking stitch; Inc. increase; dec. decrease; beg. beginning; tog, together; sl. slip; rep. repeat; cont continue; patt. pattern, Figures in brackets refer to the small size, end to the number of times to be worked, as stated.

COAT

MAIN PART

Using No. 7 needles, cast on 2 sts. Insert the needle be- tween the lust 2 st. and 'k.1, hand place loop on to left needle, rep. from * until thero are (180) 201 sts.

let_row; * k.1, p.l, rep, from to lust st. k.1.

Rep. the 1st row 7 times. Then work in pattern as follows: lat row: (k.1, p.1) 3 times, k. to last 6 sis. (p.1, k ̧1) 3 dimes. 2nd and alterante rows: (k.1, p.1) 3 times, k., p. to last 7 sta. (k.1, p.1) 3 times, ki.

k.4

3rd row: (k. 1, p.3) 3 times,

p.1, 1.3, rep, from to lart

7 sts. (k1, p.1) 3 times, k.1.

Nih row: As 1st row of pat-

tern.

FOR THE BOY

Cont, in moss st. dec. 1 st, at Cont. without further shaping 7th row: (k.I. p.1)

3 times, the neele edge every row until until work medures (7) 7 from k.2 * p.1, k.3, rep. from to last (15) 18 sts. remain. Work (4) 3 Inches from beg. @sts. p.i, k.2 (p.1. k.1) 3 times.

8th row As the 2nd row of rows without shaping ending at

the armhole ediyo, pattern.

Them rows form the pat- tern, cont. thus unul work men- Shape shoulder sarcs (8) 81⁄2 in., ending with

a 2nd Katt, row.

Shape Waist

Next row: (k.1, p.1) 3 mes,

Cast off (T) 8 sis. at the beg. of the next row, then cast off (8) 8 at at the beg, of the next alternate row.

Then with the wrong side of

right

k.1, k.2 tog., rep. from to last work facing you, Join wool to 8 sts, k2, (p.1. k.) 3 times, the (31) 33 eta for the (131) 180 sta

front and work to correspond Next row! • K.1. p.1, to the last at kl. from

rep.

Next row: (For G) K.I. p.1, cast off 2 sts, work in moss st. to end of row,

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Next row: (For Boy) Work in moss st. to last 4 sts., cast of 2 sts. (I st. on the needle) kl.

Next row: Work in moss st. casting on 2 sts, to replace the cast off sts, of buttonholes.

Cont. to work.

mo st. Work (8) 10 rows, then divide for the back and two fronts.

Nexi row; Work in

mosy st. (31) 33 sts, cast off (8) 8 S. moss until there are (53) 57 sta on the right hand needle after casting off, then cast off (8) B sts. moss to end of rTOW.

Working on the last set of (31) 33 ata for the left front, work (18) 22 rows in moes st. dec. 1 st, at the armhole edge of the next (4) 4 rows and making 2 more buttonholes for the boy only (10) 12 rows above the previous one. Shapo Neck

Next row: Cust of (8) 0 sta,, work in mosa at. to end of row.

with the left front, reading girl

Shape Top

Cest off (4) 4 sta at the beg.

then dre. next 2 rows,

of the

3rd row: • K11, ka tog, rep,

to last at. kl. Cont. to dec, every altamate row, working 1 st. less between, the deca, uniil (17) 19 staro- main, ending with a 2nd patt row.

Next row: K2 tog rep. from to last st. k.1. Break off wood 1 st, at the beg. of every row until (15) 17 ata, remain. Cast teaving an end to thread through off. Make another, alcove in the remaining (9) 10 sts. Draw up

tightly and fasten off securely.

same way.

COLLAR

Using No. 7 needles cast

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for boy and vice versa. Then (53) 57 sts, work (16) 18 rows with the wrong side of work in Moss st. Cast oft in Moss st.

facing you, join wool to the (53) 67 six of back, and work (20) 33 rowe in moss st. dec, 1 st. at both ends of the first 4 rows. Shope shoulders

BERET

MAKING UP

Press all pieces under a damp cloth with a kot iron on the wrong side, avoiding the ribbing and Mars st. Join the shoulder seams, Set in the clooves. Join the sleeve seoma. Placing collar Using No. needles, cast on to the wrong side of work, nerve (82) 02 sts. in the same way as he cast off edge of collar to neck given for the coat. Works 10 edge to within 4 sta frees front rows in lul, p.1, rib, dec. 1 st. edges. Sow on buttons to corre. Cast off (7) B sts, at the beg, at the beg. of the last row, spond with the buttonholes. of the next 2 rows,

Sow up then cast Change to No. 7 needles, work Press the seams.

the off (8) 8 sts, at the beg, of the in st.st. for 2 rows.

Team of baret on the WTOLE next 2 rows. Cast off remaining 3rd row: KD, . twice into aide. Press the seam. Make a (18) 17 sim

the next st, rep. from to last pom pom for top of beret-cut

SLEEVES

Using No. 7 needles, cast on (37) 41 ats, in the same way as given for the main part. Work 8 rows in moss st. then work in palt, as follows:

1st and 5th rows: K.

st.. k. (80) 100 sts.

ivo crties of cardboard 3 KI, inches in diameter, make a hole

4th, 6th, and Bih rows: then p. to last et kl.

in centre of ench the size of a 5th row: • K. 10, k twice into farthing. Wind wool through the the next st. rep, from to last hole and over the outside edges until the centre hole is cam- st. k1 (97) 109 ta

7th row: * K.11, k, twice into pletely filled. Cut the outside the next st. rep. from to last edges of wool, and before re- st k. (105) 118 sts.

open moving the cardboard, ath row: K.12, k. twice into slightly and tie a plecs of wool the next st. rep. from to last tightly round centre of the pom st. ki (13) 127 st.

Tear of the cardboard Work 7 rows in Moss st. Then thread one end of the wool. shape top as follows:-

which was used to tie the centre In continuity

pom 1st row: K,12, k.2 1og. rep. and take up through the 1 st, at both ends of the next from 10 last at...

poin and fasten to top of böret. 6th

pom every following

2nd and alternate rows: KC.1, Trim the row, and

pam to a nice rounded shape. row until there are (48) 48 sts. then ). 1o lost st. k.1.

2nd, 4ib, 6th and 8th rows: P. 3rd row: K3, p.1, rep. from to last st. k.1.

7th row: K.1, p.1. k.3, rep. from to end of row.

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PEACOCK OR PURPLE

Space-saving furniture

Cit wall represented by the

que range. Sectional seating for seven for 2120 includes triangular three-seater, an ad- jelning twosome, and a chair -all of which can have fitted if you want them.

It you like brightness the

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arms

Bi-

now use of natural woods, natural was designed by Robin Day. quolse and olive at £2 24.

about for Hille of London-a trim "Foreign omes aro IF you want your leather and ebonised surfaces,

Hitting-room furnishing

Ernest Race confirmed this settee with a plain backrest 79," she said. to be in the forefront of view when he showed me the turned Into a 4ft. bed, complete fashion in

for 1958 think of upholstering fabric

his with Bin, Durloplo mattress trice (£65). Ho also new armchair and huge match- in a your new colour scheme --- and then MUTE it. The time footstool (228 143. and 28 showed me a magnificat side- 78. 0). "Colours are going to board in rosewood with dark

now leather not of riotous scarlet armchairs be kinder," he said. His

doors which I would than trade my "mare upright

cairo dining suite and dynamic purple carpets chair is is on the wane, At least, some and of a generous width. for, If your stocking · zama

Peoplo at bolt upright forever twisting out of Ene in that is what I was told by trying chairs in

shops" the

SLIDING DOORS the same direction, check your the top British designers at demonstrated) "but at home An African walnut aldo- girdle or garter belt. It may the Earls Court Furniture they lounge sideways like this."

Latex easy-chaira, Ark be that the back garters are wet Exhibition. And that is I must say he looked extremely board, with sliding cane doors, Light

is brilliant 28-year-old Terence peacock or purple, on A. F. either too close together or too certainly the trend in the comfortable.

Conran's favourite plese on Buckingham's stand ure far apart, for your figure.

Conran furniture stand truelve at 211 0s. Bd. to £14 Scandinavian showpiece NO COLOUR INHIBITIONS the

(£50).

10%. If you have Food linen rooms from which so much

Next door, in the Wrighton

"Two years ago the furniture novel ure of Venetian Conrun had said to mo a minute Walters, complate with emerald has a

known as Tambour earlier, inhibitions bllado bow tie, had no

highly "Everything schemes. shuttering. I specially led a polished. his colour".

and lots of cocktail about

dressing table cabinets with inlaid mirrors "They're a feature in my kit white-toppet

brass-framed inside. But this year "In Finland the nature itself chen," he told me, opening the with

a deep shuttered ing to be terribly exciting." suds, then dry them in the is very subtle, mid charming mahogany-lood drawers of his mirror and 1to take the sun without rinsing. Tablo- designer

I agreed with her. Alto joder (pro- nice uncluttered kitchen unita. compartment cloths can be hung up, but|nounced Chodder, he explain- «You Can order tangerine tallest cosmetic bottle (225

~(London Expreza ·Baroicaj, dolleste faces will be better off ed), describing what inspired drawers, white cupboards and 6). if they are stretched out on Professor Alvar Aalto's beauti- a pale blue lander if you have Shirley ConrATI

fully simple finished Interiors, a family. It's all edged with and drain-pipe trousered, had When the sun hay dried them, The designs from Denmark, beach to stop it looking too designed the lovely fabrics her wash them again, in fresh, sude | the country that influences our clinical”

pol. They include the gre and rinso, dry, and - Iron as | designers moet, are again

The nicest looking conver- hand-printed. volver to be pro- usual.

quialtely progful, with their lible double bed I came across duced for maps sales in. tur-

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tablecloth or laces that need contemporary English fur- kitchen, bearded designer Nigel Their now bedroom range exhibition was a joke," Shirley

bleaching, take advantage of aniture takes ita cuo. sunny, doy and ̈ use an old-

fashioned tried-and- byr BEAUTIFULLY SIMPLE

method.

Wash them gently in thick

wax paper to dry.

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recested

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by

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