RUCHING AND RUCKING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19349, 9 June 1926, Page 9

RUCHING AND RUCKING.

If you are an amateur dressmaker and desire your gowns to display the latest features, just practice a little the arts of rnching and rucking, and you wilUhave at your disposal two methods of trimming in economical and effective fashion.

Some sewing machines possess useful attachments for facilitating both operations, it being only necessary to remove the ordinary foot and screw on the other. For the ruching you must first prepare a length of the material just three times that of the amount of trimming you will require being careful to iron flat all tht; joins. Then fray the edges, for a frayed ruche has much more lightness and elegance than one that is hemmed. Practice making box-pleats with great accuracy, tacking down th2 folds so that they can be stitched through the centre in the machine afterwards; ! ■-Rucking requires preparation by means of a ruler and lead pencil, for each successive line of gathers must be perfectly straight and even. For the yoke effect to the fashionable cape, rucked: lines of gathers are excellent. Lav the material, after it has been cut to shape, flat on the table. Make small pencil dots at even distances with the aid of the ruler, and ths!n run tacking threads in them line by line. Then put your sewing machine to its loosest stitch, and pull the under cotton so that you will be able to gather up your material when you have stitched along the tacking-thrsad lines i Then the next step is to tack the gathers on to a base, and for this you must place the half to the half, the quarter to tho and so on, Only thus vjII you gain a well-spaced result.