Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — A Suggestion as to Darning. [ARTICLE]

A Suggestion as to Darning.

An exchange says the great difficulty in mending lies in darning the edges together in good shape, and suggests as a good plan to buy some net lace, such as is used for canopies or draperies or for darning* in patterns. If when the knees of children’s garments wear thin a bit of this lace is basted on the under side and carefully darned down on the outside; with fine thread or yarn, the color of the fabric, the garment will wear almost as long again. A piece of fine net darned down on the wrong side of! a table-cloth will save a large rent, 1 and will scarcely show. A careful housekeeper, who believes that waste of anything is almost a crime, uses coarse net for darning thin places in towels. It i§ surprising; how much longer they will wear, and ,Jiow easy the work is. Cut thelaccin a square, if possible to use it that way; lay it smoothly on the goods, and, with a long needle and very soft thread, follow the meshes of the lace in and out, each mesh alternating until the edges are .sewed fast. Be careful not to take the stitches through to the right side, at least if it is desirable not to have the patch show through.* Then a few judiciously runnings down on the right side of the goods, being very careful to follow the grain of the fabric, and make a short stitch on the right with a long sti£ch on the wrong side.