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American Agriculturist, June 28, 1924 
How to Re-cover a Parasol 
/^\NE who possesses a nice parasol 
frame need not deplore the fact if 
the cover is lost to respectability. With 
a small expenditure plus a little time and 
patience a new cover may be made to 
match the new Spring frock! 
Notice carefully how the cover of the 
parasol has been made, then remove 
from the frame, rip open the seams and 
save the sections for a pattern. 
Buy material with a strong selvage 
and the cover need not be hemmed. 
Pongee makes a long-lasting parasol, 
linen, taffeta, gloria or even cotton 
flowered material may be used. The 
width of the material and the size of the 
sections will determine the amount to be 
purchased, as the base of each triangle 
is placed along the selvage and the sec¬ 
tions may be fitted into each other if the 
material is wide enough. The exact 
amount may be determined by placing 
the pattern on newspapers the width of 
the material. If only one section of the 
old cover is pressed for a pattern, care 
must be taken to count the number of 
sections, for they differ in parasols. 
Start with a Clean Frame 
Thoroughly clean and oil the joints 
of the frame, and, if needed, re-enamel it. 
Cover the joints with scraps of the 
material to keep the sharp points from 
Summer Fashion Magazine 
HATS 
A page of lovely ones 
that can he easily and 
inexpensively made at 
home. 
Every well-dressed wo¬ 
man includes at least one 
blouse in her wardrobe 
this season. There are 
pages of lovely ones in 
this issue. 
DRESSES 
Smart frocks for every 
occasion and every figure 
are shown. There are 
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one-piece, one-hour dress. 
LINGERIE 
Dainty lingerie, too! 
Just the kind of sewing 
you’ll want for “pick¬ 
up” work during your 
leisure moments on the 
porch. 
There are millions of kitchens 
which are literallyprisons. Three 
meals a day, 365 days in the year, 
represents a stupendous work 
program, yet millions of house¬ 
wives do it efficiently and un¬ 
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You will like our Spring and Sutomer Fashion 
Magazine. There are more than 300 styles 
for every member of the family and of course 
you can obtain one of our easy-to-use, material¬ 
saving patterns for every style in the book. 
Send 10c to-day for a copy. 
Address your order to American Agricul¬ 
turist, Pattern Department, 461 Fourth 
Avenue, New York City. - 
the cover toward the top. Now sew the 
material to the mid-joints and to the top 
of the frame. Finish the top with a 
double ruching of the material and 
pleat bias folds of the material to make a 
cord for the handle. The writer success¬ 
fully recovered a frame with gray pongee 
and made a bag to match to be carried 
with light summer frocks. 
cutting the cover, and cut a circular 
piece the size of the palm to place over the 
frame at the top before adjusting the 
cover. 
Cut the sections one-eighth inch larger 
than the pattern all around and sew up 
the sections as the old seams were made, 
being careful not to make the seams too 
large. 
Place the cover on the frame when it is 
closed and sew* securely to the points. 
Open the frame carefully, stretching the 
bias seams of the material and smoothing 
The sections may be embroidered or 
beaded before they are sewed together. 
Medallions may best be applied after the 
cover is adjusted. One’s initials may be 
embroidered on a silk parasol to "har¬ 
monize or contrast with the color scheme 
of the costume. Hemstitching is done 
after the sections are sewed together. 
Children like parasols embroidered in 
Noah’s Ark animals. Little gingham 
parasols to match the frock can be made 
out of sun and rain fast material, after it 
has been shrunk.— Hazel Harper 
Harris. 
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