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Needlecraft (1911)

Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 52

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edle with No. 50 thread. Use a threada trifle longer than nine inches. Make a good-sizedknot in the thread so that the end cannot slipthrough the material. Start from the right-handside of the piece and insert the needle on the underside. Let the knot come on top of the narrow hemabout one quarter… … Fig. 30. Gathering the apron are nothing more than running stitches. When therunning has been worked across the nine inches ofthe material, take the needle out and make a knotin the thread. Put a pin, vertically, close to the last stitch.Take up only a few threads of the material on thepin. Draw up…

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