SEWING HINTS.
Place a piece of net under a tear in material or large holes in .stockings when darning. Tack neatly on the wrong side, and then do the darning into the net, of the right side until the opening is well covered. The work is quickly and easily carried out, and in the end will be hardly visible. A piece of tape sewn under the place where a button is put on children's clothes will lengthen the life of the button.
Keep a piece of beeswax in your sewing basket. If the buttons are sewn on boys' trousers with waxed linen thread there is less chance of them coming off. .If linen has to be put away for any length of time it should be washed but not starched, and then rolled in blue paper. When sewing with double cotton make a knot in each end instead of knotting them together, and there will be no tangles.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20958, 22 August 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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158SEWING HINTS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20958, 22 August 1931, Page 6 (Supplement)
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