SEWING SECRETS

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20334, 26 October 1937, Page 5

SEWING SECRETS

PRESSING SEAMS When von are making a skirt do leave the filling darts unstiched unlit the skirt is sewed up. Take them llrmly, then finish off your skirl seams. This gives you a chance to try on the skirt and to see whether the darts are right for your figure. It is easv to adjust them if necessary, and then you can stitch and press them. Select your sewing silk a very little darker than your material when vou want the two io match. Silk always looks lighter in a single strand than it, does on a reel. Silk for mending stockings, though, should be a shade lighter, since stockings invariably fade a little in washing. And do press your seams as you go along. If you leave them until the frock is finished you will find that you cannot get at them all. The underarm seams, for instance, will be caught in with tlie armhole seams, and the skirt, seams will have their ends tucked inside the hem —and nasty lumps they will make, nine times out of ten, if they haven’t been pressed first. Then always test the tension of your machine on the actual material you are going to use. Fold a scrap of the fabric so that you get the doublg layer you-will have gppniing.