Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1919 — FINISHING OFF THE EDGES [ARTICLE]

FINISHING OFF THE EDGES

Machine Zigzag Stitching, Battlement Effect, Ruffling or Plaiting, Add to the Decoration. The edges of things, or rather the way thoke edges are finished, make such a difference. This is particularly true of bundles. And yet, when you stop to consider how little real time and trouble it takes to add a row of broken stitches in groups or three, as compared with the charming effectiveness of the finished garment, the wonder of it is that more attention isn’t given to the “edges.” Here are but a few of the lovely things that can do duty as decoration, as well as finish: Machine hemstitching worked zigzag, hemstitching in battlement effect, ruffling or plaiting of net In white or color, easy stitches, and tinted laces. It is an easy matter to pencil off an irregular line for the hemstitcher to follow-; and that is perhaps the very easiest finish of all. But the tinted lace and net idea is quite the newest and most effective. Both are seen usually done intmy, tiny plaits. Among the easy stitches which are always effective and pretty nearly always within the vogue, come French knots worked in groups of three, alternating short and long blanket st! teh, long horizontal sti tehes interspersed with squares or dots forked solid, and the aforementioned straight stitches worked in threes. These are especially decorative done on the slant, the stitches graduating or alternating in length.