The dress you wear and how to make it . idthfrom the edge, place tape inside the crease The Dress You Wear 141 as the linen outside is to be cut away beforestitching. Baste tape. The part that turns over forthe revere should be caught to the materialby numerous rows of the catch into the coat. Pin tape on theline of turning for revere. This tape shouldbe a little tight to prevent stretching. Trycoat on and if coat swings back at bottom pintape a little tighter in front of coat. If coat swings too far over it is too tightand should be loosened a little at front sew,
The dress you wear and how to make it . idthfrom the edge, place tape inside the crease The Dress You Wear 141 as the linen outside is to be cut away beforestitching. Baste tape. The part that turns over forthe revere should be caught to the materialby numerous rows of the catch into the coat. Pin tape on theline of turning for revere. This tape shouldbe a little tight to prevent stretching. Trycoat on and if coat swings back at bottom pintape a little tighter in front of coat. If coat swings too far over it is too tightand should be loosened a little at front sew, using overhand-stitch, over andover the edge of tape, placing needle close totape for each stitch and not through to showon right side of material. Pin facing on, placing the right side to rightside of coat. Pin this on so it is a little easierthan the coat material, baste on outer edgeof tape, cut away canvas on outside of thetape, and stitch the edges of coat and facingtogether one-eighth of an inch beyond theedge of tape and THE LINING OF THE COAT I42 The Dress You Wear 143 Pull basting, cut away one-half of the seamon one edge, which should be the edge of thecoat proper. Press seam open flat. Turn both edges of seam (but not the fac-ing) over on tape and canvas being carefulto have edge flat and smooth in the turning,and the narrow edge of seam you just turnedoff should lie underneath the wide side of full-width seam. Cat-stitch firmly to linen. Turn facing,crease in line of stitching, and baste along edgeof coat, also seam. Hold work in left handand baste the entire facing over the linen,using the diagonal basting as you did to bastethe linen to front of coat, only this time youhold the work over the left hand slightlyrolling to have the facing basted in easy. Miscellaneous Stitch against the pile in velvets, plushes,and corduroy, and seams are less noticeable. 144 The Dress You Wear Clip basting every three or four inches andremove as soon as stitching is done. I
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