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 150
and draw the edges together, and bya web-like weaving close the hole. A DROPPED STITCH is more easily remedied by theuse of a crochet-hook than by darning. Slip a fine c ochet-hook through the little loop at the lower end of the hole;catch up the first thread and pull it through the loop.Continue… … 111.350. IlckingLpdDropped Stitch TO SE.T IN A PIE.CL WITH THE BALL STITCH is away of extending the usefulness of the stocking whenthe hole is too large to be neatly darned. For thispurpose keep on hand the leg portions of stockingsof which the feet have been worn out. Baste the part to be mended…
Dressmaking · Sewing
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