The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . sing this methodone can do smocking whereverone can stitch a hne. In preparing the material forthe illustration, a perfect circle often inches in diameter wasstitched on white sateen, using thesewing-machine for lines andspaces. Twelve rows were stitched,the circle widening to twentyinches, each successive row, ofnecessity, having many additionalstitches and plaits, the last rowdoubling the first row. The pointsafter the tirst two rows of dia-monds were free-hand work orfolds held in posit
The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . sing this methodone can do smocking whereverone can stitch a hne. In preparing the material forthe illustration, a perfect circle often inches in diameter wasstitched on white sateen, using thesewing-machine for lines andspaces. Twelve rows were stitched,the circle widening to twentyinches, each successive row, ofnecessity, having many additionalstitches and plaits, the last rowdoubling the first row. The pointsafter the tirst two rows of dia-monds were free-hand work orfolds held in position from pre-vious stitches. In smocking onris not likely to meet such a neces-sity as this: but the illustrationis most useful as an example, amican be imitated in a moditied formin many instances. The break inthe stitches caused by the increas-ing number of plaits is handled,using outline stitch to dividethe rows, thus permitting the useof the increased number of is a piece of work much ad-mired. It is unusual and a bitdifficult. It is necessary in dnin;,work like this that the material.
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