NEEDLEWORK DESIGNS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 185, 23 August 1937, Page 14

NEEDLEWORK DESIGNS

Guest Towels

Full instructions for embroidering these guest towels (witli illustrations of them and all stitches used) and material requirements will bc scnt to readers who writc lo "Penelope," HeraldTribune, Hastings, and cnclose l/l in stamps. Please write plainly, printing your name and address in capital letters and stating the number of the pattern (1055). The instructions are accurate, complete and easy to understand. Don't let your bathroom be a "forgotten corner" in the house. Yrou can keep it as fresh and dainty as your bedroom with bright, attractive aceessories. You'll want to keep a supply of pretty guest towels on liand, and there is notliing lovelier than this °et in cut work and applique. You can do them just in cutwork too. Use natural flower colourings; it is very effective. Separately or in pairs they would make handsome gifts, yet ones that are liot difficult to make. The pattern conics lo you with a transfer pattern of four motifs 41 x 15 inches and applique palches as well as dircclions for duing culwork and applique. I

cake with its silver favours was set m a base of the ^anio llowers. Mrs O'Keefe was frockcd in a model ensemble in black and white, the coat of which was made of black and white travel-twced giving the new tunic efi'ect, while tho frock, which was of sawdust crepe, had a peter-pau collar worked in an attractive rouleau design. A vory smart black hat finished with cire foses and veil was worn. . Mrs Halpin wore a frock of rippled pr.une cloque with trimmings of gold lame. Her black hat had a prune quill and -she carried a bouquet of grape hyacinths, sweet peas and heath. Among the relatives present wero: Mr aud Mrs F. C. Wheeler- (Lower Hutt), Mr and Mrs J. D. O'Keele (Hastings), Mr and Mrs J. F. O'Keefe, Mr. and Mrs W. P. O'Keefe (Dannevirke),,Mr and Mrs S- J. O'Keefe, Mr and Mrs W. H. Mitchell (Greenmeadows); Mr and Mrs L. Willis (Hastings), Mr and Mrs D. Willis, Mesdamcs C. G. Willis and T. McCusker, Misses. K. Bourko and N. Clifford, cousins of the bride l'rom Sydney and many friends from Wanganui, Wairoa, Wellington, Christchurch and Auckland. Later in the morning the bride and bridegroom had a hearty send-off on their lioneylnoon tour to Auckland and the north and on their return will make their home in Hastings. Mrs Halpin travelled in a smart-two-piece suit of reseda green afghalaine, the coat in military effort having a cut away front. A sc-arf collar and buttons of velvet iu a deeper tone were a pretty finish. Over it was worn a top coat, iu reseda diagonal cluth with deep grey lov collar and shc wore a mili.Lary i'elt haL