Feminine Interests

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 454, 8 September 1928, Page 22

Feminine Interests

IWaJze It 1 ourself t Written for THE SUS by Jenny Htrtefi.J

e/ln Apron to Hold Peg>s on Washing, Days

WHY stoop when you don’t have to? A housewife has enough bending to do without doing it unnecessarily. To stoop for clothes pegs is labor. Why not make an oilcloth apron with a pocket for clothes pegs that is a bag as well, uid so eliminate useless toil? |Y'OR the body of the apron cut an 18-inch square of oilcloth. Lay this wrong side up. Measure 1 inch in from each comer along one edge- With chalk draw a line joining these points with the corner nearest it on the opposite edge. Cut along the lines marked. To make the pocket, cut. an oblong 18 inches by 14 inches. Lay the apron on the oblong, putting the 18-inch edge of it on a long edge of the oblong. With chalk mark the slanting lines of the apron on the oblong; cut along these lines. JfiOLD the pocket piece in half crosswise. Measure up Hi inches from the 18-inch edge; on this fold and mark the point. Draw a line from this point up to the nearest corner. With the pocket still folded double, pin it together so it cannot slip, and cut along the line marked. Unfold the pocket, and with bias-binding bind along the lines just cut. L AY the pocket on the apron, the 18-inch edges on fop, of each

other and both pieces of oilcloth right side up. Baste the pocket on along the edges. Bind all but the top edge of the apron with bias-binding. Cut two strips of binding 54 inches long; lay one on top of the other, the right side of each to the outside, and baste them together. Sew along one edge by machine. Leaving enough over at each end for apron strings, place the top of the apron between the pieces of binding, and baste it. Sew along the second edge of binding, and finish the ends. Sew down the opening of the pocket to a distance of 4 inches from each edge.