The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . byholding or fastening the work in a manner toretain plaits already formed. This methodpossesses the added virtue of leaving the mate-rial free from shirring marks as well as beinga time-saver. I never mark a point exceptwhen doing honeycomb work. The finishing ornaments at the tip of thepoint are in bullion stitch taken three times,with the thread wound seven times around theneedle. The needle used should be roundeyed, as this sort has no enlargement at theeye and allows the stitch to sli
The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . byholding or fastening the work in a manner toretain plaits already formed. This methodpossesses the added virtue of leaving the mate-rial free from shirring marks as well as beinga time-saver. I never mark a point exceptwhen doing honeycomb work. The finishing ornaments at the tip of thepoint are in bullion stitch taken three times,with the thread wound seven times around theneedle. The needle used should be roundeyed, as this sort has no enlargement at theeye and allows the stitch to slip easily ofT theneedle. Otherwise the stitch is spoiled. Figure 25. — The illustration shows a designsuitable for womens frocks and blouses, or forchildrens frocks. When used on a crepe deChine frock or blouse the sinocking stitchesmay be worked in silks of the same shade witha very good effect. The illustration shown was(lone with white cotton on plain pink sewing-machine w-as^^used to secure thelines and spaces, and in this case the pointwas also worked, using the shirred lines. Stitch. Fio. JO. M.\i H I \ I -S ( . \io bee page 18 14 on your sewing-machine twenty-four the preparation for tlie snioclcing stitchesas shown by Kig. 5, page 4. Draw up theshirring threads, secure them ; pull the workinto place and work the lirst row in singleoutline stitch (see Fig. 6, page 4)- Workthe second row in single cable stitch acrossthe line (see Kig. 11); the third row insingle outline stitch across the line. On thefourth gathering thresd work a wave orhalf-diamond, using three stitches up andthree stitches down (see Fig. 15), workingdown to the fifth line. This gives one-halfof the diamond, as shown in the illustration.(The wave and the half-diamond are fre-quently the same thing, depending on itsapplication.) The second row of diamondstitch is worked, beginning on the sixthgathering thread, and down to the seventh,as shown by Fig. 15, page . Reversin
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