For Dolly’s Cottage Window.
LITTLE casement curtains are quite the best kind for the doll’s cottage windows, and on this page is shown a very pretty one that you will probably like to make. This is of dark green sateen, and the work on it is done in light green and pink “Brighteye.” It looks very nice in the picture, but it looks a great deal prettier when you can see the colours just as they are. And isn’t the way the little circles are entwined just sweet? Are you thinking that you couldn’t manage it? Well don’t think it any more, because you can, if you just follow this little talk carefully.
The stitch on this little curtain is called chain stitch. It is worked from right to left, or to be really nearer the mark—from top to bottom. To make it, bring your needle up from underneath, leaving a little end at the back. Hold the thread down with the left thumb, and, putting the needle back where you brought it up, take up a few threads of the material with the needle. Pull the thread through, but not too tightly, repeat the stitch. One little picture shows you chain stitch being worked.
THE LITTLE GREEN CURTAIN.
WORKING THE CHAIN-STITCH.
For this curtain, a piece of sateen, 5 inches long by 4½ inches wide, is needed. Turn a narrow hem on all four sides, and tack it. The top edge must be hemmed with tiny stitches, but the other three sides need not be hemmed, as the chain stitches will keep the hems down. This chain stitch can now be worked over the hems, on the right side. Now measure in 1 inch from the left side of chain stitch, and work another row in the same way. Between these two straight rows come the interwoven circles. To get these circles even, cut out a piece of cardboard the same size as the top of your thimble, and draw little circles round it on the sateen, allowing each circle to overlap the last one just a little bit. Now each little round touches the next one at two points. At one of these points it goes under, and at the other, over the next round. You will easily see what I mean by looking carefully at this little curtain. When the circles are all finished, they look like a chain, with one pink and one green link alternately. The only other thing to do is to sew the rings to the top of the curtain, for putting your curtain rod through. You will want one just like it for the other side of the window, and in making this, be sure and get your circles on the opposite side of the curtain, so as to make them a perfect pair.
