There is one thing that dolly absolutely must have before you take her out to see her friends, and that is a new pram-cover. You had almost forgotten that, hadn’t you? Just think how you would feel to have her dressed in her best for visiting, and sitting in that beautiful perambulator that Uncle gave you, and no nice cover to match! Wouldn’t you feel dreadful?

Here is a pram-cover that you can make. This has been worked on pale pink sateen, with shaded green for the leaves and stems, and dark crimson for the rosebuds. Use a shaded green No. 8 “Star Sylko,” crimson, No. 8, and plain green thread, No. 5, the same shade as the darkest part of the shaded thread, for the lines around. Perhaps these colours won’t go quite nicely with dolly’s pram and outdoor clothes. In that case you must decide on some other shades.

This pram-cover measures 10 inches long by 7½ inches wide, then another 2 inches has been added to the length, and 2 inches to the width for the hem. You may find you need your cover larger or smaller than this one, but whatever size you have, don’t forget to allow extra for a nice hem. Tack the hem down all round, but do not hem it: the stitches on the outside line keep it in place.

Having tacked your hem, you have now to get the design transferred to your pram-cover. Just look at the outline design. This is just the size you will want. Now take a piece of tracing paper, and go carefully over the outline of the leaf wreath. Don’t trouble about the bud at present. Next turn the paper over and run over the back of the design with a fairly soft lead pencil—the outlines will show through the transparent paper. Turn it over again and lay it on your cover, taking care to get it nicely in the centre. Keep it firm and follow every line with a slightly harder pencil, marking it firmly and evenly. When you take your paper up you will find the leaves transferred to your pram-cover. The buds are transferred to each corner in the same way, putting them whichever way up you want them.

All you have to do now is to work over the design in the outline stitch described on page 58. Work the leaves and stems in the shaded green, the rosebuds in crimson, and the border lines in plain dark green. You can then take out the tacking threads.

Dolly will be highly pleased to have such a nice cover to her perambulator. She does like to be stylish, doesn’t she?