The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . hirring, and twochecks are omitted. This distance between stitcheswould make coarse work, about four or four and one-half times for fullness when finished, depending on thesize of your check. Figure 2 shows the use of a material with a stripe,like striped dimity, that can be used for length ofstitch. Here we first show lines stitched by using thesewing-machine, the width between the lines beingregulated by the presser foot. This little device ofstitching the lines is of the greatest value
The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . hirring, and twochecks are omitted. This distance between stitcheswould make coarse work, about four or four and one-half times for fullness when finished, depending on thesize of your check. Figure 2 shows the use of a material with a stripe,like striped dimity, that can be used for length ofstitch. Here we first show lines stitched by using thesewing-machine, the width between the lines beingregulated by the presser foot. This little device ofstitching the lines is of the greatest value in usingstriped materials, especially the striped dimity, wherethe cords space the stitches. The stitching servesonly as a guide for the gathering threads, and isclipped bit by bit and removed as the gatheringthreads are run in. If the cords are too far apart, onestitch between can be used; if the cords are too closetogether, one can be omitted. Thus it is readily seen _>. (.iATHEKiVi. THKKAli> i ^ I K. ». KSS ON A .StkIIKII Material with Lines Marked by MachineStitch I N<;. See page 3. either fine workor the reverse iseasily attainableand can be cor-rectly prepared. Figure 3. —Here again isshown acbecl<ed mate-rial tine enoughfor every othercheck to beomitted in theshirring, asshown, and thesame distanceleft between therows of shir-ring, making asquare. Aftertliese sampleshave beenshirred, t h ethreads drawnup moderatelysnug and securely tied in pairs, the pieces are readyfor the smocking stitches. Each line of gathering must have a separate thread,and each thread should be started at the right-handside with a double stitch to hold the knot so that itwill not slip through when the thread is drawn this illustration a coarse cotton has been used forgathering in order to show clearly, but a stout sew-ing cotton is all that is necessary. Figure 4.—-This illustration shows Fig. I with thegathering threads drawn up. It is the wrong side ofthe work. The ri
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