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It is a help to thumb tack the material to the sewing table, overcast for a ways, then thumb tack again further on.

Just overcasting makes a pretty trimming, too, for a child’s dress. Sometime, try overcasting the collar and cuffs of a yellow chambray with black mercerized embroidery cotton.

Felling.—Hems, folds and lining are felled in place. This means taking stitches in the hem and outside material which will hardly show.

Insert the needle first in the hem, the fold or the lining and then in the outside garment as shown in Fig. 44. Take up only a thread or two of the outside goods as the

Fig. (44) The correct position of the needle in felling a hem

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