. Art crafts for amateurs . ime is what theZeitgeist dictates. Outline embroidery in coarse crewels onflannel or linen yields a very excellent effect for the timespent upon it. Here a well-planned design which agreeablycovers the ground is very important. It must of necessitybe a repeating design if the material is considerable in area, NEEDLEWORK. ?7 and those not skilful enough to invent one for themselvesmight try adapting a wall-paper or cretonne design to suittheir purpose; but as it takes much longer to do a stitchthan put on a touchof colour care mustbe taken to keep thedesign simple ra
. Art crafts for amateurs . ime is what theZeitgeist dictates. Outline embroidery in coarse crewels onflannel or linen yields a very excellent effect for the timespent upon it. Here a well-planned design which agreeablycovers the ground is very important. It must of necessitybe a repeating design if the material is considerable in area, NEEDLEWORK. ?7 and those not skilful enough to invent one for themselvesmight try adapting a wall-paper or cretonne design to suittheir purpose; but as it takes much longer to do a stitchthan put on a touchof colour care mustbe taken to keep thedesign simple ratherthan elaborate. Thiswill mean leaving outa good deal in thedesign you take toadapt. The repeating de-sign, No. 122,is of thewall-paper order, andcovers the groundvery pleasantly. Theforms are highly orna-mental, though wefeel they are basedon plant form. Applique. I have an ideathat applique is notsufficiently used inneedlework in thiscountry; on the Con-tinent it plays an all-important part in thecraft. It is astonish-. No. 131.—Butterflies and Moths inapplique. The materials usedmight be figured ones. i88 ART CRAFTS FOR AMATEURS. ingly effective for the time it takes, and there is a solidity andstrength about it that adapts it for covering large surfaces atthe smallest expenditure of time. Sprigs, animal or otherforms powdered over hangings cut out of nice materialsand appliqued will give a most excellent effect, and far fromcheap-looking. The needlework should play about the ap-pliques so that there is a union between the two. One wayof covering wall-hangings would be to work the plan, ,the lines dividing the surface into spaces, and then appliqueanimal forms in the spaces. Such well-known plants as areadapted in Nos. 126 and 127 would make good appliques
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