Recovering Umbrellas
Dear’ Aunt Daisy, I enclose a paragraph from an English magazine which may help "Umbrella," ease in a recent Listener. Sincerely, "Mac." Many thanks, Mac-and. here let me quote the cutting she sent. "I have just covered an old umbrella, and feel sure that others who tackle this
job can make at least as good a job of it as I have. I bought a piece of oiled cotton with. a design of blue on cream. Using one section of the old umbrella as a pattern, I cut as many new pieces as needed, machined a narrow hem at the bottom of each, and then machined the pieces together. Using a teacup for a pattern, I cut a circle of material with a tarthing-sized hole in the middle, and machined this hole to the hole where the sections join at the top. I then reversed this, so that the raw edges came inside, neatened these edges, and thrust the ferrule into place through it. I then drew the cover over the spokes, sewed each spoke to its seam in the new cover, added a few inches of narrow elastic, a button and latchet to finish it off. It looks most professional, but it took only two hours!"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 385, 8 November 1946, Page 26
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209Recovering Umbrellas New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 385, 8 November 1946, Page 26
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