NEEDLE NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15664, 18 July 1914, Page 6 (Supplement)

NEEDLE NOTES.

Ever so many people aro making their blouses of acoordeon-pleated silk or chiffon just now, and very pretty it is provided you handle it careful. Rut, if you pull it about and get it all dragged out of the pleats, it looks tumbled and soiled before you have half finished making it up. Always choose quite a simple style for accordeon-plea.te<l things—one that goes, as much as possible, in long straight bits. Before you start cutting, lay your stuff flat on the table, with the pleats all smoothed down. Thread a big noodle with tacking cotton, and run a row of tacks along each raw edgo to hold the pleats steady.

If the piece which you aro going to cut is a big one, put in a few more tacks towards the middle, as those at the edges won't be enough. In cutting, always measure your material with the plcabs in. If you pull it out and then measure it, you will be sure to get it wrong.

Cut it very steady, using a pair of very sharp scissors. The best way is to pin the pattern down first, then run a row of tacks round tho pattern, and then cut by the tacks. This is a bit of trouble, but it saves making mistakes and getting a wobbiesomo lino, which would spoil tho shape of your garment.

To put sleeves in correctly, put tho under arm seam of tho sleeve just the length of your second finger ahead of the under.seam of the waist. This is an easy way, and they aro always in tho right place.