Other committees have added a thumb to remodelled socks and thus made the material into warm mittens. Where the sock is too wide, it is stitched down the side.
Many committees have found it worthwhile to gather scraps of material of swatches of samples from tailor shops. This has proved an worthwhile practice. Numerous committees have sent in comforters from this material, and one group in the East sent in dozens of little boys' caps complete with ear flaps and under-the-chin fasteners. Each cap consisted of four pieces. The committee also sent mittens and tiny trousers made from similar material.
From Stillwater, Okla. a group reports they are cutting men's worn-out trousers into strips for sewing into comforter tops.
Many committees in textile centres have found it feasible to gather mill ends of cloth. One of the most interesting ways to use narrow strips of woollen material is to sew them together lengthwise to make a girl's dress. With careful pattern, a very stylish garment can be made, complete with dainty collar and pretty buttons.
Such pieces are also being worked into wind-Breakers or jackets. From swatches or odd pieces one committee cuts the backs and fronts of these garments and then from harmonizing or contrasting wool, knits sleeves, waistbands and collars, After such economies as these, there may still remain woollen scraps, bits of men's clothing, flat parts of old woollen sweaters or socks. Any such odds and ends that are wool and clean and not too bulky can be used to make comforters. You take a pair of cotton blankets and place a layer of scraps on one of them. Then lay the second blanket on top, bind the two around the outer edges, and tack the whole together at small intervals with bright colored yarn. Result: almost in a twinkling of an eye you have serviceable comforter that will help some English, family to keep warm on winter's long nights.
And incidentally, the committee now shipping onl; warm articles suitable for Britain's summer is short, and Mothing ~to help bombed-out families "next iter, must be prepared and shipped now.
lore dre plenty of other ways to turn old material Into bright new clothes. Every group of workers develops its own ideas, thus rivin? full play to imagination, ingenuity and thrift
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