. The new century home book; a mentor for home life in all its phases; a chronicle of the progress of America and the world; a compendium of the nation's greatest city; and a guide for the great army of . ^ be applied to lace, and itis commonly known that a bias-cut ruffle, puff,or flounce of any kind sets better when gath-ered than a straight one, neither does it takeas much GATHERING. To whip on lace, basting is not necessary,as it will be well to have the slight fullnessarising from holding the lace toward you. Thewhipping is simply overcasting the edge of thehem a
. The new century home book; a mentor for home life in all its phases; a chronicle of the progress of America and the world; a compendium of the nation's greatest city; and a guide for the great army of . ^ be applied to lace, and itis commonly known that a bias-cut ruffle, puff,or flounce of any kind sets better when gath-ered than a straight one, neither does it takeas much GATHERING. To whip on lace, basting is not necessary,as it will be well to have the slight fullnessarising from holding the lace toward you. Thewhipping is simply overcasting the edge of thehem and the lace together. Cording is a bias strip with a soft cord along the center held by basting stitches until applied as a finish, when the close stitching is done close up to the cord. Piping is done in the same way, leaving the cord out. On woolen goods use letter D silk twist for 133 The New Century Home Book working buttonholes, and numbers forty orfifty thread on muslin, and sixty or even fineron thin cotton materials. Do not cut a button-hole close to the edge; between a quarter andan eighth of an inch is the usual allowance ofmaterial between the end of the buttonholeand the edge of the fabric. Unless you are a SEWING ON GATHERS. practiced cutter you can hardly make a holestraight without the regular buttonhole scis-sors. Cut a hole that is a tight fit for the but-tons, as working enla
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