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 . illustration. Now take up thosame number of threads as before, and must be taken to keep the warp and woofthreads exactly parallel, especially in hemstitch-ing a corner where the material has not been cutaway. DOUBLE HEMSTITCHING—Draw the tlu-eads as for plain hemstitching and baste thehem in the sam
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 . illustration. Now take up thosame number of threads as before, and must be taken to keep the warp and woofthreads exactly parallel, especially in hemstitch-ing a corner where the material has not been cutaway. DOUBLE HEMSTITCHING—Draw the tlu-eads as for plain hemstitching and baste thehem in the same way. Hold the hem towardyou and work on the side on which the hem isturned. Insert the needle in the under fold ofthe hem at the extreme right and work fromright to left, holding the work over the fore-finger of the left hand. Hold the thread underthe thumb and take up four or five tlireads withthe needle, bringing the needle out over the threadso that it forms a loop as shown in Illustration this loop quite tight and take a small stitchto the left of the stitch in the fold of the take up the same number of threads asbefore and repeat the hemstitching for the lengthof your hem. When it is finished turn your workso that the opposite side of the drawn threads. 253. Preparing for Imitation 111. 254. Imitation Hand Hem-Hand Hemstitcliing stitching bv Macliine threads so that they can be di^^ded evenly,be irregular and uneven when finished. Other- IMITATION HAND-HEMSTITCHING can be worked on the sewing-machine. Illus-trations 253 and 254 show how it can be done on the machine at home. This gives aform of hemstitching that is often used on house linen—sheets, tea-cloths, etc. Foldthe material for a hem, and cut the garment off one-quarter of an inch above thesewing fine. Fold blotting-paper or any soft paper to one-eighth of an inch the two cut edges of the garment together, as if to sew a seam. SUp the TRIMMING STITCHES 121 ilIA,.
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