The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . her-stilching one or two stitches toward the edge,holding the thread under the leftthumb. Insert the needle the depthrequired, bringing it out under the edge,allowing the thread beneath to form anedge. (111. 274.) THL FEATHER-STITCH is one of the most frequentlyused of all ornamental stitches, for it can be work
The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys . her-stilching one or two stitches toward the edge,holding the thread under the leftthumb. Insert the needle the depthrequired, bringing it out under the edge,allowing the thread beneath to form anedge. (111. 274.) THL FEATHER-STITCH is one of the most frequentlyused of all ornamental stitches, for it can be workedwith the coarsest of yarn or the finest of silk or linen tlireadaccording to the nature of the material on which it is makes a most satisfactory trimming. The single, doubleand triple combinations are shown in Illustration \vreath Design TRIMMING 5TITCHLS 127 Run a colored thread along the outline to mark the center line for the make the single stitch, knot the thread and then bring the needle up through the mate-rial. Hold the thread down over the line with the left thumb. Insert the needle a littleto the left of this line, and take a short, slanting stitch toward the right, drawing the needleout while the thread is held down smoothly by the left thumb. Then hold down thethread on the center line and take a stitch of equal length on the right side and draw it outas before. For the double combination, take two stitches to the left, and two to the right eachtime before crossing the center line, and for the triple combination, take three beauty of feather-stitching depends on its evenness. Illustrations 276 and 277show ornamental designs.
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