7. Sew the plaits together, and fasten a loop between the plaits.
Finish bag with two little cotton balls, sewed to the lowest point.
This makes a many-pocketed bag, and would be a pleasing Christmas gift to your mother.
1. Buy belting which is sold by the running yard.
2. Embroider the design given on this page upon the belt.
Trace design through carbon paper; or transfer by tracing through tissue page, and turning the picture face-down on the material; trace picture again on wrong side.
1. Buy smallest size “huck-a-back” towel.
2. Embroider on it the cross-stitch design given on this page.
3. Through tracing paper, copy outline of neck given on this page. Cut out pattern.
This pattern plate should remain permanently in book so that tracings on tissue paper can be made from it as required.
5. Bind neck with cotton or linen tape, leaving ends long enough to tie.
[Illustration: Girls’ Collar pattern CUT OUT NECK―THEN JOIN A TO A B TO B]
1. Trace pattern of collar through tissue or transfer paper. Cut out.
2. Place pattern with double ring (oo) edge on a lengthwise fold of linen.
4. Embroider scallops with close blanket stitches.
5. Embroider rings with close “over-and-under” stitches―Satin Stitch.
For folding table linen or damask, fold and crease a very narrow hem, then fold the hem back on the right side, and overhand the edge thus folded. Press open on right side.
NOTE.―Or, run through the hemmer of the sewing machine, having the needle unthreaded, using a very fine stitch: proceed as above.
1. In learning to darn, it is well to use a piece of flexible card board, three and one-half inches long by three inches wide.
2. With a large needle, puncture it three-quarters of an inch from the top, and three-quarters of an inch from the bottom, making holes one-eighth of an inch apart.
3. Use zephyr, in a tapestry needle, and work as in picture on this page.
4. Weave, with a contrasting shade of zephyr, in and out of the long stitches already taken.
Cut a hole in a piece of muslin: draw edge together with the fingers, and darn with cotton thread as above. Stockings are darned in the same way. In actual darning never use a knot.
Darning is usually done by use of the running stitch. Use fine thread―cotton is preferred, about the size of the weaving threads of the goods. Draw the edges of the tear together, and weave across the opening with the running stitch. If the tear is very large, first baste a piece of goods like the garment under the tear, and take the stitches into this. Sometimes a raveling thread of the material is used to make an almost invisible darn.