Hemstitching is always done on the wrong side of your piece of work, and the stitch is worked from right to left.
Dainty little collar and cuffs sets can be made by hemstitching the hems: and a quarter of an inch above this work make a row of French knots or feather-stitching.
Count sixteen threads upon the crease from the hemstitching and with lustre No.
Hemstitching is not always necessary in doing drawn work.
When hemstitching on coarser material more threads can be drawn and also a greater number of threads can be taken up when working.
Hemstitching for Handkerchiefs and Collar and Cuff Sets--Simple Drawn Work Stitches 207 XX.
At first glance you would think that there are five rows of tiny tucks with hemstitching on each side, until you look again closely and see that it is padded hemstitching (Figure 182).
In hemstitching the corners take up four of the double threads.
The very expensive handkerchiefs only have two threads drawn before hemstitching them but it will be easiest to hemstitch when more threads are pulled.
Bettina, still hemstitching on white frills, welcomed Justin with a charming smile, but with a decided negative to his invitation.
It was on the north porch that Sophie and Bettina sat on the morning after Diana's departure--Sophie knitting a motor scarf for Anthony, Bettina hemstitching white frills.
Hemstitching is always beautiful, but makes a weak spot which is apt to give out in the constant laundering necessary for children's clothes.
Sidenote: Hem Stitch] (6) Hemstitchingis used for ornament in making hems and tucks.
When hemstitching wears out, take serpentine braid and stitch it across twice on the sewing machine.
If a piece of white soap be rubbed on the underside of the cloth, where the hemstitching is to be done, the threads may be drawn with ease, in half the time that is usually required.
Hemstitching forms a dainty finish for the household linen and underclothing, but the busy woman often will not undertake it because of the difficulty of drawing the threads.
Hemstitching and fancy work are appropriate only on cloths for the luncheon table, which may be of either plain or figured damask, or of heavy linen, which is often effectively combined with Battenberg and linen laces.
Nothing is more desirable than the simple elegance of the plain, broad hem, nor more disheartening than hemstitching which has broken from its moorings while the rest of the sheet is still perfectly good--a way it has.
Neither drawn work norhemstitching wears well, drawing the threads seeming to weaken the fabric.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hemstitching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
