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The girl's own book (1833)

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880 · New York : Clark Austin & co. · leaf 212

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ke a piece of pretty silk cord, or very narrow taste, aboutthree or four inches long; wind your tape around this, andwhen it is all wound, tie the cord so as to confine the end.You will never need to undo this knot; you have only to takehold of the end of the tape and press backward against… … MENDING.Stockings should be mended on the wrong side ; the stitchesvery near each other ; small loops left, when the needle isdrawn through, because the yarn will shrink in washing; inweaving across, take up but one thread and leave but one,changing the threads each time you go across. Little…

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