Sewing for litte girls by Foster Olive Hyde

Author:Foster, Olive Hyde. [from old catalog]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Sewing. [from old catalog]
Publisher: New York, Duffield & company
Published: 1911-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

SEWING FOR LITTLE GIRLS

After you have mastered this perfectly, try taking two stitches on each side, and the result will be even prettier.

Next run a double row of gathers around the

FEATHERSTITCHING

remaining raw edge, at the top of the skirt, draw up to fit Dolly's waist, and fasten securely. If your child happens to be rather large around her waist (for some children are quite chubby), you may not want so many gathers over her little stomach, so push all the fullness you can to the 42

DOLLY'S SKIRT

back, and lay the rest in two flat little plaits each side of the front.

Cut a strip of fine muslin long and wide enough for a band, and put on the same way as I told you for the pretty apron. Sew a tiny button from an old glove on one end, and make a neat buttonhole in the other. And to make particularly nice, overcast on a piece of narrow lace at the bottom of the hem.

BLANKET STITCH

For a plain flannel underskirt, however, turn a half inch fold at the bottom, and baste. Take a needleful of fine worsted or embroidery silk, and, starting from the left, hold the thread down with your thumb while you set the needle in one-quarter of an inch back from the edge, and bring it out from under the edge (and over the thread held down), so as to form a loop a little like the buttonhole stitch. The next time set the needle not quite so far in, and continue to alternate with long and short stitches.

You may want to make a fine white skirt, however, so get a piece left over from your own or mother's summer dress, and that you can trim differently.

After cutting the fine, thin goods, and folding 43

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