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Show Stitching Witchery Sewing All Those Kinds Of Tucks will put more of the presser foot on the fabric for more stability. sta-bility. STITCH SLOW LY! If your fabric is extremely lightweight, light-weight, it may help to place a strip of tissue paper under each tuck while stitching. Pull paper away when stitching is done. Short, wide tucks are often used to create fullness in an area, such as over the bustline. These tucks should not be pressed above the end of the stitching line. FOR THE final pressing of your tucks, slip strips of brown paper between the tucks to prevent press lines from developing. By BETTY W. KINSER Tucks. ..tiny tucks, wide tucks, close tucks, short tuck-s. tuck-s. These design features are showing up everywhere, in every ev-ery shape and size. Don't reject re-ject a pattern just because it has tucks. MARKING IS the important first step toward neat tucks. Use long hand-basting, tracing wheel, or chalk (depending on the type fabric) for marking thetucK lines. These fold lines must be on the straight of the grain. Any deviation can cause rippling. Press tucks in before stitching. stitch-ing. Use steam and a press cloth and do not move iron back and forth, just raise and lower, raise and lower. STITCHING TUCKS requires re-quires a steady hand. To make the job easier, measure from the machine needle, to the right, the width of the tuck. Along this mark stick a stripe ' of masking tape. The folded edge of the tuck will follow the tape edge for a straight stitching stitch-ing line. Stitch all tucks in the same direction. Pin tucks may be the most difficult ones to work with. The stitching is done very, very close to the folded edge and can slip out of line so easily. easi-ly. Move the machine needle to the right-hand position. This |