TO MITRE TWO STRIPS OF CLOTH

Materials— 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.

4. Place the right sides of the strips of calico together, so that the two ends are exactly even (Fig. 82).

5. Holding the ends even, half-backstitch, by a thread, one-fourth of an inch from the edge (Fig. 82).

6. Press the seam open, and trim the corners (Fig. 83).

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.

3. On each side make a crease, by a thread, one inch from the edge of the fold (Fig. 84), for a hem.

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.

9. Fold the hem at the side, making the edges of the two hems meet at a right angle (Fig. 85).

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.

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 750