Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1910 — in Place of a Knot. [ARTICLE]

in Place of a Knot.

The use of a knot is to be avoided in sewing and not to be tolerated in embroidery. The accomplished needle Woman rarely finds it necessary to start with a knot, save in gathering or basting. Sometimes a tiny one is slipped under a hem, but it will show on right side if material is sheer and makes an ugly lump in ironing. Two or three over-and-over stitches taken on wrong side of material is as secure as a knot, and much more sightly. In embroidery there is no excuse for a knot Two or three tiny stitches taken on outline or in body of work where it is afterward covered will hold any stitches. Knots only tend to an untidy wrong side, which no good embroiderer will tolerate, and make the work rough in laundering.