3. Use zephyr, in a tapestry needle, and work as in picture on this page.
4. Weave, with a contrasting shade of zephyr, in and out of the long stitches already taken.
Cut a hole in a piece of muslin: draw edge together with the fingers, and darn with cotton thread as above. Stockings are darned in the same way. In actual darning never use a knot.
Darning
Stitch
Darning is usually done by use of the running stitch. Use fine thread—cotton is preferred, about the size of the weaving threads of the goods. Draw the edges of the tear together, and weave across the opening with the running stitch. If the tear is very large, first baste a piece of goods like the garment under the tear, and take the stitches into this. Sometimes a raveling thread of the material is used to make an almost invisible darn.
1. Cut the hole to make a small square, clip corners, turn edges back and baste.
2. Cut piece of goods three-quarters of an inch larger, on each side, than the hole thus formed, being careful to match figures of material. Clip corners off this piece and turn goods back on right side one-quarter of an inch, and crease.
3. Pin and baste this under the hole, matching figures carefully, and hem down, on right side and wrong side. Remove bastings.
GINGHAM FLANNEL
Patching