Three short courses in home making

wrapped two or three times around i: e threads holding the button, between the button and the cloth, then fastened neatly on the wrong side with a few small stitches one on top of the other. PRELIMINARY PLAN. Bach girl should come to the class with her apron as nearly com- pleted as possible, and with three butto: Jew on it foi fastening tin- belt and straps. 100 THREE SHORT COURSES IN HOME MAKING. METHOD OF WORK. The teacher should discuss the best methods of fastening garments with the girls, and she should demonstrate the method of sewing on buttons. The girls should sew one button on the left end of the apron band in the middle of the width about 1 inch from the end and another button 4 inches from each end of the band to hold the shoulder straps. LESSON XVIII. METHOD OF FASTENING GARMENTS (Continued.) Buttonholes on practice piece, and on apron. SUBJECT MATTER,. Directions for making the buttonhole. — Measure the location of the buttonhole, carefully lengthwise of the band, so that the end will come /-I ***** Hf T/- IfJL1- »ip..ilj w-m. 1 (a) lb) The buttonhole stitch. (c) Starting the ballon hole. The buttonhole stitch. The finished button hole. Fig. 19. — Working buttonholes. From Junior Circular No. 35, Agricultural Extension Department, Ames, Iowa. one-fourth inch from the adge of the garment. Mark the length of the buttonhole on the material by putting in two lines of running stitches at the ends. To cut the buttonhole, insert the point of scissors at the point marked by the running stitches nearest the edge of the garment and cut carefully along the thread of the material to the row of stitches marking the length at the other end. To make the buttonhole, use a thread of sufficient length to do both the overcasting and the buttonholing. Beginning at the lower right corner, overcast the raw edges with stitches one-sixteenth of affl inch deep. Do not overcast around the ends of the hole. " As soon as the overcasting is done, go right on with the buttonholing without breaking the thread. Hold the buttonhole horizontally over first linger of the left hand and work from right to left. Insert the point of the needle through the buttonhole (at the back end), bring- ing the point through toward you four or five threads below the edge m mi of the buttonhole. Bring the doubled thread from the eye of the needle from right to left under and around the point of the needle, draw the needle through, forming a purling stitch. At the end of the buttonhole make a fan 1>\ placing from five to seven 3titch The thread should be fastened carefully on the underside of the but bonhole PRE! [MIM \i: i PLAN. Por this lesson it will be desirable to have small pieces of muslin on band to use as practice pieces for the buttonholes. 1 HOD <>!■ WORK. The teacher should demonstrate the making of a buttonhole, ill us- tr:n ing each process <>n a Large piece of canvas. The bould sew two Bmall strips of muslin together and cu1 a buttonhole one-fourth inch from the edge of the material, and lengthwise <>\' the material, to work for practice. When the buttonhole has been sufficiently per- fected on the practice piece, the girls should make a buttonhole on the band of the apron. The buttonhole should be made in the ri end of the band, and in each end of each shoulder -trap.