HINTS FOR THE SEWING ROOM.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 102, 23 January 1908, Page 3

HINTS FOR THE SEWING ROOM.

-To .make,-good, .strong buttonholes on fray or any- other kind of goods stiifhi.twice tho .length 'of the buttonhole on m^phinevaitd'f.cut.rbetween' the stitching ami then- .buttonhple.... I| ;poot;eyesiglit .obliges you to 'use coloured tltfe,ad ~'when,'V.baßting'<T,y,'hite use bliin co_t(;g!i,.,as ,any < !ji„ts of, this'that'.catch in the sewing -•will- wash, white, and not fitiiiif |tlie 'goodsj as black- or -.. other colours will. V>7-' ,-By, -soapji)g';.spahjs' in starched: poods .the machine needlp, will-go.,through cloth easily without.c,uViiig.;l'hread../'ln-doing baiuL sew r ing : /pass;,spa'p'..ov?i:. 1 .th0..-seam;. One can domuph,;finerj;wprlc.;mpre;.eagil7; by -soaping the goqdsiV'i "*£?.'■**''b: --•• • a .The wheel' band -,of - the sewing • niachinc wil]_ not 'have,.tp be out .when it i-beconics loose if via. few-.drops! of. castor oil are, put on.,ft r .ihachiiie is- run rapidly for seems.-.to shrink the. leather. : i '- : ■ A dressmaker says-that, sowing silk and thrqad wilU.iipt tangle-or knot.wljen it is tying; lyorkccl wit-h ;if,.it..is threaded from the-, right .end,.- arid.to-be -sure'- of, the end thread, the ■needle*, before; , tho thread is broken from the spool. , - ... , A,shoemaker's., costing a few pence, is oniji.of. the. .topis'; that .should bp on every seinn'g . m'acliine.'; : 'it : is * tho only thing to pull out*Vprnctsr%hjs'n'.;,turning . collars, cuffs, or.'bands for .marlang places, for hooks,and eyes,, buttons and. buttonholes by piercing through both' liems'of waist ;"for ripping out bastings or pulling out thread when ripping out/ stitching. In making small eyelets in embroidery "orfor ' inserting buttons. Likewise a man's .pocket: knife is a handy thing to.lyi7o,in the solving.room to use in ripping, cutting off buftons, taking out bastings, etc. ''