Salt Lake Telegram | 1914-09-30 | Page 11 | Can You Make a Buttonhole?

CAN YOU MAKE A BUTTONHOLE BUTTONHOLE BUTTONHOLE BUT BUT- The buttonhole can make or mar a lingerie gown a clumsy buttonhole can spoil a tailored gown cown and the raveled threads of or the tho buttonhole add nothing to the tho attractiveness of ot childrens children's clothes So Its It's well to learn something about buttonhole making and here are ire some Bome very helpful Instructions In that art written written written writ writ- ten for tor the tho THE TELEGRAM women readers by bp an expert In needle work By MISS ANN ANNABELL TURNER Instructor In Home Economics University sity of of Wisconsin Buttonholes should be worked on the tho right sl side eldo o of ot double material at least lone fourth one fourth of ot an nn Inch from the edge of or ortho tho the garment s The distance between them themIs themI I Is regulated by tho material and by the tho size and location of the buttons Make buttonholes with a fan at the end receiving the strain and finish with a ab abar b bar baron rl on tho the other end To make a buttonhole cut a slit the tho re required re is length through both of cloth being careful to cut between n two threads Knot the tIme thread insert the needle half haIr an nn inch above the tie right end of the silt bring it out three or four threads below the right end of ot slit insert the needle three or four threads below the loft left end of the slit bring It out three or four threads above Insert again above the right end coming coming- out at starting point three or four threads below tho the right end of the tho slit silt Begin the buttonholing by bringing the needle about h halt half lr way w out of or tho the lower rh right ht end Just below the long tong stitch Throw the tho double thread from the eye ee o of the needle to tho left and under tho the point of ot the needle with a circular movement to form d loop draw tho the ne needle lIo through h the loop formed and pull pun up tho the thread away from you ou at right angles to the edge of ot the buttonhole thus forming a double knot on the edge called a purl Form Fonn tho the following stitches In the same way a 1 leaving a thread of the cloth be between between be- be tween teen each tach stitch and bringing Ing the needle out under the tha same thread of or the cloth each time to make mako the thc stitches the same rome length