The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . ied 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 t
The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . ied 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 right side, upon which the smockingstitches are worked, presents a succession of folds.(See Fig. g.) The Sewing-Machine Method.—.\s before stated,it is of the greatest importance in smocking that thework is perfectly prepared, as the entire beauty ofthe work would be marred by imperfect lines in theshirring. To attain this perfection on plain materialthe sewinii-macbiiie may be used for marking lines 4. Checked Materi.\l as in , WITH Gatherlnc page 4. and spaces. The lines are to work upon and thespaces are the size of the stitch, the presser foot be-ing the guide between the lines. (See Fig. 5.) Whenthe rows of stitching are complete, the threads areclipped about every two inches and removed a fewat a time in a manner not to obliterate the impres-sion made by the machine-needle. These marks orholes are used to determine the length of the shir-ring stitch, as you shir in the holes the machine-needle has made. If very fine work is desired, adjustthe machine to eight stitches to the inch. This givesyou a fullness of three times and is suitalile for tinematerial. For heavier material adjust the machine tosix stitches to the inch. This gives about four timesthe fullness. Smocking should rarely be fuller thanthis and is seldom used with less fullness than twiceand one-half, which is very fine work. In using thestitched lines, the pr
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