How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 398
Hold the two edges of the material Old-Fashioiied Needle-work. 381 firmly together between the first finger and thumb of the lefthand, while with the right hand you take the stitches very closetogether and as near the edge as possible, sewing from rightto left (Fig. 292). It is well to keep the… … Fig. 292,—Overhanding ; or Sewingover and over. Fig. 233 —Overhanding. The seam opened withstitches flattened out. the edges of the material will not overlap, but just meet to-gether and lie smooth and flat. OVERCASTING is the same as overhanding, except the stitches slant, are fartherapart, taken…
