Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 54
ghtly with your thumb. Continue inthis way, putting the needle under each stitch(Figure 32). Let us now put a band and strings on our apron.Cut two strips of material ten inches long by twoinches wide. These are for the strings. Baste aneighth of an inch hem on the two long sides of eachstrip. Make… … Fig. 32. Gathering Strokes Cut another strip two and a half inches wideby five inches long. This is the band. Turn downone eighth of an inch of the material all around theband. Crease the band in half, lengthwise, so thatthe edges, just folded, are inside. Find the centre of the gathered material…
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