The new dressmaker; with complete and fully illustrated instructions on every point connected with sewing, dressmaking and tailoring, from the actual stitches to the cutting, making, altering, mending, and cleaning of clothes for ladies, misses, girls, children, infants, men and boys (1921)
Butterick Publishing Company · New York [etc.] The Butterick Publishing Co · leaf 129
rge dresses and on crepe de Chine. The blanket-stitch is also used to protect the edges of heavy woolen materials and toprevent them from fraying. It is used on silk, serge and voile dresses, instead of over-casting the edges of the seams. The plain blanket-stitch is used for overcasting seams, but… … her-stilching one or two stitches toward the edge,holding the thread under the leftthumb. Insert the needle the depthrequired, bringing it out under the edge,allowing the thread beneath to form anedge. (111. 274.) THL FEATHER-STITCH is one of the most frequentlyused of all ornamental stitches, for…
Dressmaking · Sewing
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