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 90
s more practical than the regu-lar French seam. It is used on edges thatare very much curved, and on edgesthat have been basted at the finishedsewing line and can be finished moreeasily this way. Make the usual plainseam on the wTong side of the gar-ment. Turn in both edges of the seamtoward each… … the usual plain seam on the ^vTong side of the garment. The edge that is towardyou should be trimmed down to } s of an inch width. Turn the other edge toward you Hof an inch and bring it to the seam line. (111. 149.) Finish it vi-ith. a hemming stitch,Illustration 149, or bj machine, or with…
Dressmaking · Sewing
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