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Identifier: gradedcourseinco00earl (find matches)
Title: A graded course in cord, raffia, lacer work and sewing for elementary schools
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Earl, Anita Mills. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Sewing Manual training. (from old catalog)
Publisher: New York city, The author
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the center of short edge. 5. Close the blades, cutting slowly but firmly. 6. Open blades again, slip scissors upon the paper and close the blades together again, etc. Note—Cut all the way to the top, having the children count the number of strokes necessary.Get the children to take long, firm strokes in cutting. Have them avfoid nervous,snippy cuts. Watch for any facial contortions and correct them at once. Have the children examine the straightness of the line of cutting,and compare the 2 halves. Continue. Cut one-half again in two, andthen cut the original remaining half from corner to corner (bias), amuch more difficult thing to do. The children should now be ready to hold the edge of the seamtaut, and to cut ofif just enuf material along the edge to make it clean-cut. * The rounded blade should always be turned down when cutting on a table or over a cloth.It prevents scratching the former or catching into the latter. DIAGRAMS OF OVERCAST SEAMOvercasting Edges Overcast Together.
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OVERCAST SEAM (Continued) Use. Overcasting is used as a finish for the edges of seams or materials tokeep them from ravelling. Directions. Position of Seam. Slightly slanting over the first finger of the left hand.Let the material slip down into the palm of the left hand, and hold theextreme right hand corner between the thumb and first finger of theleft hand. End of Thread. Use a knot. Conceal it between the 2 pieces of muslin. Overcasting—Both edges as one. Make stitches half the depthof the seam (about yg full), and ji apart. Sew from right to left. Point the needle toward you, run it betweenthe 2 pieces of cloth at the right hand end and bring it out thru thepiece toward you half the depth of the seam (ys full). Draw theneedle and thread thru, close the 2 pieces of muslin to conceal theknot, and, pointing the needle, toward the left shoulder, take the nextstitch over both edges of the cloth, )i (full) down (or half the depthof the seam), and )i to the left of the thread. Continu

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