Show COMBINING LACE AND BEADING slight carelessness or lack of preparation sufficient to mar the result when lace laca and beaden be beadles adin are to be sewed to thin materials such as aa muslin dresses or underwear of any kind it must be carefully and thoroughly dono done to produce good results lace edging nearly always has a stout thread in the selvedge which serves admirably as aa a gathering thread pull this thread and stroke the gathers to make thenn them even roll the edge of the material and holding the lace and edge together with the thumb and forefinger of the lett lert hand with the lace nearest you overcast the two together with firm even stitches when sewed to a straight edge insertion can be sewed in exactly the same manner but to let Insert insertion lon in to form a design first baste basta the material on the right hide to lorm form the desired design and hem it down on both edges cut the material from underneath the insertion leaving a narrow strip on each side elde of the Insert foL crease this strip back from the insertion toward the material and turn as for a hem overhand this taking stitches close to the line of the hemming |