WENDY’S MILLINERS

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1928, Page 18

WENDY’S MILLINERS

Sly Dear Children, —Wouldn’t you feel grand if you made a smart new pull-on hat! You can manage it quite easily if you can get a small piece of doth—serge, or something similar. Cut out four shapes like Diagram A first of all; the measurements given are only a suggestion, and you'll have to adapt them to your own head-fitting. If you cut out the shapes first in paper and tack them all together, like Diagram B, you’ll be able; to fit the pattern on your head, and take it in or let it out' according to your requirements. When the paper pattern is made to your satisfaction; cut it out in the cloth, and stitch the four pieces firmly together. Measure round the bottom of the crown thus formed, and cut a strip of material an inch longer, and about

five inches wide; join the two short ends together like Diagram C, and then slip the edge of this circle just inside the crown as indicated in Diagram D, taking care to have the wrong side uppermost. This now forms the brim, which must be sewn to the edge of the crown. Now turn in a hem round the bottom, as shown by the dotted lines XY, and fold the brim up over the crown, like Diagram E. If you like, you can trim your cap with applique circles of different coloured felts and add a few leaves. Group the shapes carefully, don't use too much decoration, and you will be very pleased with the result. - WENDY’S MILLINER.