Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1911 — Padding Embroidery. [ARTICLE]

Padding Embroidery.

Where heavy padding 1b desired under embroidery, try using little wads of raw cotton instead of filling in the padded Bpace with many,, jnany stitches of darnitg thread. To pad a scallop, catch up a bit of raw cotton in your fingers and roll it between the thumb and forefinger until it is the length of the scallop, thick in the center but tapering to a mere thread at each end. Lay thu on the scallop and with a few sttiches catch to the material. Embroider over it in the usual way. Flowers have their petals padded by making little cushion-ilke wads of cotton and catching them down to the material, well inside of the working line, with ordinary sewing cotton. Coindots and vibbon designs are treated acordlngly.