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TO MITRE TWO STRIPS OF CLOTHMaterials— No. 8 needle, No. 60 thread, scissors, and a piece of calico five inches square, cut by a thread. To mitre two strips of cloth— 1 Fold and crease the square diagonally from corner to corner. 2. Cut on the crease. 3. From one of the pieces cut two bias strips, each strip being one inch I wide. 5. Holding the ends even, half-backstitch, by a thread, one-fourth of an inch from the edge (Fig. 82). To MITRE THE CORNERS OF A HEM Materials— No. 8 needle, No. 60 thread, pins, scissors, and a piece of cotton cloth five inches square, cut by a thread. To mitre the corner of a hem— 1 Cut off one corner, one-fourth of an inch deep. 2. Fold, one-fourth of an inch, the two sides which are at right angles with this corner, and crease by a thread. 4. Make a pin-hole where the creases meet (Fig. 84 a). 5. Open all the folds, and make a diagonal crease across the corner, one-fourth of an inch outside the pin-hole (Fig. 84). 6. Cut on the crease. 7. Holding the bias edge of the cloth, at the upper left-hand side, fold and baste, by a thread, the upper hem. 8. Fold and crease the bias edge one-fourth of an inch. 10. Baste the corner fold and side hem. 11. Hem the folds down, taking the stitches at the corner fold through only one thickness of cloth. · What is mitreing a corner? · How are the strips placed together? · How should the edges of the two hems meet? LOOPS OF TAPE Fold the middle of the tape so as to form a point, as in Fig. 86. Overhand the inner edges for three-fourths of an inch, beginning at the ends. Fold the ends under, one-fourth of an inch, and place them on the wrong side of the cloth, one-half an inch from the edge. Baste and hem them down on three sides. Turn to the right side, and stitch the edge of the cloth to the loop.
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