Archer, Effie Archer · Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 83
ost double in length tothat you usually take, as a joining is very clumsyin a buttonhole. A buttonhole is a worked opening in a piece ofmaterial or garment through which a button is to beslipped. The friction caused by buttoning and unbut-toning necessitatesthat the workededges should be firmlyand… … NEEDLECRAFT 59 one inch long over this line. At the extreme rightof the stitches insert your needle, threaded withNo. 40 cotton. Take a stitch about a sixteenth ofan inch below the line. While the needle is stillin the material — you are working from left toright — (Figure 70), carry the thread…
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