Show How to Sew on Buttons I When I get a nrightidca I always want to pass along said a friend of mine to a little girl as she sat and watched the child try to sew Do your battens over come off Nina Ever Theyre always doing it They are ironed off washed off and pulled off until I despair I seem to t shed buttons wherever 1 11 go Make use of these two hints when you are sewing them on then and see whether they make any difference Whcnyou begin before you lay tho button on the cloth put the thread through so that the knot will be on tho right side That leaves it under the button and prevents it from being worn or washed away and thus beginning tho loosening process > Then before you begin sowing lay a pin across the button so that all your thread will go over the pm < Afteryou have finished fin-ished filling the holes with tho thread draw out the pin and wind your thread round and round beneath the button That makes a compact stem to sustain the possible possi-ble pulling and wear of the buttonhole It is no exaggeratm to say that my buttons but-tons never come oil and Im sure that yours wont if j you use my method for sowing sow-ing |