. The standard domestic science cook book. put under the lower gathering thread, press each pleatunder the thumb, continue across the gathers. BUTTONHOLES: Measure carefully and mark before cut-ting. They should be a trifle longer than the diameter of the but-ton for flat buttons, and one and one-fourth the diameter for around button. When finished the butonholes should be one-fourth of an inch from the edge. Always use buttonhole scissorsand cut to a thread. Mark the distance between the button-holes with a card-board marker. In working a buttonhole alwaysbegin at the end farthest from the ed
. The standard domestic science cook book. put under the lower gathering thread, press each pleatunder the thumb, continue across the gathers. BUTTONHOLES: Measure carefully and mark before cut-ting. They should be a trifle longer than the diameter of the but-ton for flat buttons, and one and one-fourth the diameter for around button. When finished the butonholes should be one-fourth of an inch from the edge. Always use buttonhole scissorsand cut to a thread. Mark the distance between the button-holes with a card-board marker. In working a buttonhole alwaysbegin at the end farthest from the edge—the lower right-handcorner. Work from right to left. All buttonholes should have a rowof running stitches a little less than an eighth of an inch from the cut and extendingaround it. If the clothravels easily the but-tonhole should be over-cast with fine threadnot more than three Various stitches as Applied to the Buttonhole. StltchcS On a Side and none at the end. Therunning stitches serve as a guide line and strengthen the button-. DEPARTMENT 33 477
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