When heavy padding is
desired under embroidery, try using little wads of raw cotton instead of
filling in the padded space with many, many stitches of darning-thread.
To pad a scallop, catch
up a bit of raw cotton in your fingers and roll it between thumb and forefinger
until it is of the length of the scallop, thick in the center but tapering to a
mere thread at each end. Lay this on the
scallop and with a few stitches catch to the material. Embroider over it in the usual way.
Flowers have their petals
padded by making little cushionlike wads of cotton and catching them down to
the material, well inside of the working line, with ordinary sewing-cotton. Coin-dots and ribbon designs are treated
accordingly.
Another method for
padding a plain scallop will be appreciated by those who deprecate the time and
labor usually taken for the work. It is
a genuine “short cut,” accomplishing the same result very quickly. Purchase fine white cotton soutache braid,
which is inexpensive. You can easily
shrink this by putting it in hot and cold water alternately.
Iron it straight and
stitch it evenly by machine with long stitches to the scallop on the goods.
The braid should be laid
just inside the markings. With this
help, the actual padding will take but a few moments, and the buttonholing will
be even and firm.
Here is a wrinkle which
is not generally known, and will be useful to the woman who hates to embroider
on hoops: Baste your material very
firmly on stiff brown paper in such a manner that there is no danger of
slipping. You may bend and crush your
work to your heart’s desire without danger of disturbing the design.
If the paper catches in
the stitch, it need not cause you any uneasiness, as it can easily be torn away
after the work is completed.
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