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 400
Fig. 296.-stitching. stitch meet the last one, as in Fig. 296; keep the stitches evenand in a straight line. BACK-STITCHING. Proceed as in stitching, only make the stitches longer anddo not have them meet. FELLING. First baste up the seam, allowing the upper edge to extendfive threads beyond the… … then hem it down neatly. Button-holes. Fig. 298 shows howto take the proper stitch.Be careful in cuttingbutton-holes to make theslit even to a thread and cut the outer corner rounded ; bar.the inner corner by taking two stitches across it, and overcast Fig. 297.—Felling. 384 Winter, the button-hole…
