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cloth placing the two right sides together. Baste the seam on the wrong 

 side close to the edge, and stitch it deep enough to include all unfinished 

 edges. A stitched fell always appears on the right side of the gannent. 

 Place the two wrong sides together, baste them, and stitch them about 

 three-eighths inch from the edge. Remove the basting. Decide which 

 way the scam is to tvim (generalh' away from the bias edge), trim the 

 under edge down to within one-eighth inch of the stitching, turn the u]:)per 

 edge over it, and double the raw edge under about one-eighth inch. Press 

 the seam down fiat on the garment, and stitch it very close to the edge. 



13. Stocking darning 



Miss Titsworth, of the Department of Home Economics, has prepared 

 the following instructions on darning, which will be helpful in preparing 

 the exhibit in this class. 



Use a stocking with a hole not larger than a nicklc. The darning cotton 

 shoxild be chosen so that it will not make the mended place hea\'ier than 

 the rest of the stocking. It is better to use line darning cotton doubled 

 than coarse darning cotton. The part with the hole may be basted on a 

 piece of tablecloth, or stiff paper, or held over a darning ball, but in the 

 latter case the work is likely to be stretched so that it docs not lie smooth. 



Work on the wrong side. Begin at the lower right-hand side of the hole 

 to take up a few small stitches; then cross over the hole, and take up a 

 few more stitches. Work back and forth over the hole in this way, lca\dng 

 a small loop at the turning point to allow for shrinkage of the darning 

 threads, until the hole is filled with threads close together, and the ends 

 of the threads form a diamond shape. This is done so that the strain of 

 the darn will not be in one line, as it would be if the dam were square. 

 Put in the crosswise threads in the same way, and dam over and under 

 the lengthwise stitches, alternating with each return thread. The frayed 

 edges of the stocking should be caught as they happen to come, and held 

 firmly between the woven threads. 



14. Napkin hemming 



Miss Blackmore has prepared the following suggestions on napkin 

 hemming : 



Use the napery stitch, or overhanding, on linen. Ordinary hemming 

 is not strong enough for damask, and overhanding is used in its place. 

 This work takes a long time, and it is therefore not profitable to put it 

 on an inferior grade of linen. 



Turn and baste as narrow a hem as possible, for the narrower the hem 

 is, the better the effect. The hem should then be turned back on itself, 

 the exact width of the hem. Overhand the fold to the main body of the 

 linen. 



Overhanding is done from right to left. The form of the stitch is a 

 slanting line meeting a straight one. The work is done on the wrong side 

 of the material so that the slanting part of the stitch is on the WTong side, 

 and the; straight part on the right side, The straight part of the stitch 



