SEWING HINTS.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16815, 5 June 1926, Page 15 (Supplement)

SEWING HINTS.

RUCHING AND RUCKING,

If you are an amateuer dressmaker, and desire your gowns to display the latest features, just practise a little the arts of ruching and rucking, and you will have 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 fool and screw on tlie 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 fiat all tlie joints. Then fray tile-edges, for a frayed rouche has much more lightness and elegance Ilian one that is hemmed. Practise making box-pleats with great accuracy, tacking down the folds so that they can be stitched through Hie 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. Lay the material, after it has been cut to shape, fiat on ttie table. Make small pencil dots at even distances with the aid of the ruler, and then run tacking threads in them line by line. Then put your sewing machine to its loose stitch, and pull the under cotton so that you will be able to gather up your material when you have stitched along the lacking-thread lines. 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 the quarter, and so on. Only thus will you gain a well-spaced result.