TEA-POT COSY

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 711, 10 July 1929, Page 15

TEA-POT COSY

To-day's teapot wears a cosy of mauve taffetas, trimmed with silver and ecru cobweb lace. First make your plain taffeta cosy 12 inches wide by 10J inches deep. Cut out four pieces of taffeta to shape, seam them in pairs right along the rounded side and turn them right side out. Cut two thicknesses of cotton wool the same shape, and slip each in between the taffeta. Join the lower edges invisibly, and then sea,m the tivo padded halves of the cosy on the wrong side. Now 12 inches from the round edge and two inches up from the lower edge on each half of the costy stitch the wide ecru lace, gathering it slightly. Catch the lace edge down all round the edge of the cosy. Turned toward the centre of each side, lay silver lace, and where it joins the ecru lace, cover it neatly with rosebud trimming. Lay two strips of silver lace along the lower edge, covering the join with gold galon. With the narrow ecru lace make the triangular frill in the cosy’s centre. Cover the join with ribbon, slightly gathered. Stitch down the rose. Materials required: Three-quarters yard mauve shot taffeta; 22 yards ecru net lace, 12 inches wide; 1 1-8 yards rosebud trimming; 2J yards silver lace, 1 inch wide: 1 yard of narrow gold galon: t yard ecru lace, 1 inch W'ide; a yard mauve baby ribbon; 2 sprays of mauve roses; J yard cotton-wool.