The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . IlG. 3. A !•? .\E Checkeli .Matkrial May .Also Hi:Used. See page 4 ployed at different times by different workers in ar-ranging a guide for the placement of these gatheringthreads, the object being to space the threads at evendistances apart and to place the gathering stitches ineach row directly underthose in the one preced-ing, taking up the sameamount of material ineach stitch. Checked and StripedMaterials.— Perliaps thesimplest way of arrivingat this result and one idealfor the beginne


The Priscilla smocking book, a collection of beautiful and useful patterns, with directions for working . IlG. 3. A !•? .\E Checkeli .Matkrial May .Also Hi:Used. See page 4 ployed at different times by different workers in ar-ranging a guide for the placement of these gatheringthreads, the object being to space the threads at evendistances apart and to place the gathering stitches ineach row directly underthose in the one preced-ing, taking up the sameamount of material ineach stitch. Checked and StripedMaterials.— Perliaps thesimplest way of arrivingat this result and one idealfor the beginner in smock-ing is the use of checkedand striped materials, asin bigs. I. J. and 3 on thispage. Figure l shows per-fectly the method for pre-paring a piece of checkeddimity for smockingstitches. In this case thefirst and third lines are taken up for shirring, and twochecks are omitted. This distance between stitcheswould make coarse work, about four or four and one-half times for fullness when finished, depending on thesize of your check. Figure 2 shows the use of a material with a stripe,like s


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