HOW TO SEW

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 104, 27 January 1938, Page 5

HOW TO SEW

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Ruth Wyeth Spears

PIPED BUTTON-HOLES

A 1?. 5 you making a dark cotton or linen.frock for hot days? Navy blue, black, wine, red or green are popular colours, and white buttons and buttonholes piped in white offer a smart note of contrast. The buttonholes are retrlly easier to’ make than the oldfashioned bound kind, and once you get the knack you will want to make whole rows of them for all your dresses. This is the way you do it:

FOR DARK FROCKS

First, prepare a iong strip of piping material. Cut the strip either on the straight or the bias, making it threequarters of an inch wide. Fold it lengthwise through the centre, right side out, and stitch three-sixteenths of an inch from the fold edge. Trim oneeighth of an inch from the stitching, as at A. Cut two piping pieces for each buttonhole from this strip, making them one-half inch longer than the buttonhole opening is to be. Mark the buttonhole opening with a line of basting. Place piping strips above and below this line, with the edges meeting the basting, as shown at B. Sew in place, with lines of stitching the length of the marked buttonhole opening, as at C. Turn the garment to the wrong side and slash the buttonhole to within one-quarter-inch of the ends, then slash diagonal]}’ to the corners as at D.

Turn the garment to the right side again, and push the raw edges of the piping strips through the slashed opening, at the same time turning the fold edges of the two piping strips so they meet in the centre of the buttonhole opening, as at E.

Turn the garment to the wrong side and stitch the ends of the pipings to the little triangular slashes at the ends of the buttonhole opening, as at F. Cut the buttonhole opening in the facing of the garment, as at G, then slip-stitch to the piping as at 11. The finished buttonhole is shown from the right side at I. ’ ~