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 95
a narrow turning (lU. 171). Fold the hems downall around, bring the mitered corners together,and hem the side (111. 172). Hem the forners,but do not eateh the stitches through the mate-rial underneath. FRENCH HEM The seams must be stitchedto within twice the depth of the finished hem,as shown in… … lU. 172. Hemming MiteredCorners III. 171. FoldinS for Mitered Corners this point to the stitching, turn the lower edgestoward the right side and stitch the remainderof the si^am. Press open, turn the hem to theright side, baste and feather-stitch (111. 174), orfinish in any desirable way.
Dressmaking · Sewing
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