Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1915 — NOTES OF THE SEWING ROOM [ARTICLE]

NOTES OF THE SEWING ROOM

Proper Way to Cut Out Lining of Blouse—Repairing Glove —Whfn Threading Silk. When cutting out the lining of a blouse yoke be sure to cut it the same way of the material as the outside, otherwise it will be unsatisfactory and will not fit. Using a warm iron when cutting out a garment will do away with pins on tissue paper patterns. Lay the paper on the material and press lightly with the warm iron. The pattern clingy to the cloth. Quite the newest way of making a casing to run ribbon through is by making a wide cat stitch or feather stlch on the outside of the article to be used and through this run the ribbon. It holds as well as the oldfashioned way. If a glove splits at the thumb or near a seam a sure and permanent way to repair it is to buttonhole the kid on either side of the split, then sew the buttonholed edges together. The result will be a new, firm seam that will never tear again. When buttonholing be sure to take a good hold of the kid, otherwise the stitches will pull out from the kid. Always thread silk into a needle by putting the end of the silk that exists before it is unwound from the spool in the eye first If the silk is put in from the end you break or cut it un " twists more easily than if it is threaded from the other end. Clip all bastings to be removed at five or six inch intervals. They can then be pulled out without wrinkling the fabric.