CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 231, 29 September 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

CORNER FOR BUSY BEES.

READER ASKS FOR PATTERN HOW TO MAKE A SERVICEABLE CAP AND APRON. (By TINKER BELL.) Dear Girls,— I One little "Budget" reader has written and asked me to tell her how to make a cap and apron to use when she is doing housework. What one requires another is sure to want, too, so I*ll make an article of it, and then every reader of my columns can make a cap and apron, too. The cap is ever so easy to make; •ome people call them boudoir caps, and, having made them out of dainty silks, wear them to keep their hair in order throughout the day. But ours is to do a far greater service—it is to keep the dust that charges the air when the broom or the carpet sweeper is

being used from getting into our hair— ao well uae print. I think plain blue print is the beat for aervice, don't you? Take a square piece of material— the size will depend on the size of your head (I would suggest about 18in)—and cut it round so that you have a circle of cloth. Bind the edge with a piece of Mack tape or a strip of the material itself,, and then make a series of "double buttonholes" round it about one and a-haif inches from the edge; a glance at the sketch will give you some idea of the spacing. Now thread a. piece of tape or elastic through these holes, and the cap is complete.

The apron is just as easy to make as the cap, and no trouble should be experienced. Take a piece of material sufficiently long to reach the bottom of vour dress and half-way down your back. Having measured off the piece that you want to hang down at the back, scoop out the hole through which to put your head. Either hem or bind all sides, and bind the neck with tape. Sew two cloth straps on to the bottom of the panel at the back, and your apron is complete. The cap and apron described here are so simple that any girl can make them, and, if during the "hols." you help mother with the housework, you'll find them no end of a blessing, for no one does housework in a street dress without an apron, unless she is simply asking to have it spoilt.