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 . in the left hand, is shpped under the hole, with the stockingstretched smoothly, but not tightly, over it. The darning is done with the right a woven darn the darning tlu-eads in a stocking usually run up and down with therib, and then across, but when the hole is at the knee or heel, where greater elast
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 . in the left hand, is shpped under the hole, with the stockingstretched smoothly, but not tightly, over it. The darning is done with the right a woven darn the darning tlu-eads in a stocking usually run up and down with therib, and then across, but when the hole is at the knee or heel, where greater elasticity isdesired, the threads are run across diagonally. A BROKLN STITCH or two in a stocking can be easilyremedied if attended to at once. With a silk thread, pickup the broken stitches and draw the edges together, and bya web-like weaving close the hole. A DROPPED STITCH is more easily remedied by theuse of a crochet-hook than by darning. Slip a fine c ochet-hook through the little loop at the lower end of the hole;catch up the first thread and pull it through the until every dropped tliread has been caught,then securely fasten the last loop at the end with a fewse-ndng stitches. Illustration shows the position of thecrochet-hook picking up dropped IlckingLpdDropped Stitch TO IN A WITH THE BALL STITCH is away of extending the usefulness of the stocking whenthe hole is too large to be neatly darned. For thispurpose keep on hand the leg portions of stockingsof which the feet have been worn out. Baste the part to be mended over a piece of paperand trim off the ragged edge. Cut a piece from astocking-leg, matching it in color and , withthe ribs running like those in the stockiug, and con-forming in shape to the hole, but a trifle smaller. Baste
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