Checkered Table Linen

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1933, Page 9

Checkered Table Linen

I A set, of table linen checkered in a colour to match one's china is very] quickly and easily done, and is both effective and distinctive. All you do is | to draw three threads at regular intervals both ways of your linen square. Slight calculations aro necessary. For instance, if you decide to make twoinch squares, then your mats should be in sizes of multiples of two, remembering to allow just over a quarter of an inch extra on all outside squares to make a turning at the edge. Having.drawn your threads, you proceed to thread a fine, long darner with three strands from a twist of twisted embroidery cotton, in a colour chosen in happy contrast to your linen. Bananayellow and Dutch-blue cotton are a happy combination. Now . run this thread, taking and dropping about three threads at a time, all along the lines —this.gives a delicate checked effect. Turn in your edges and tack neatly. Then with three strands of cotton, buttonhole the edges, working right over the turning and working three buttonhole stitches into one liolo and then leaving a space of a quarter of an inch between them and the next group of three. The effect.is dainty, yet striking. To decorate, you need no more than the merest "twig" of a somowhat conventional design; worked in some of tho squares.