The Washington times., 1905-08-20
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How to Fix Up a
Room for Sewing

isn't everybody who can set one
room aside to be used Just for sew
ing, but the woman who can is for
tunate.
To stop sewing right in the middle Of
an important fitting is agEravatfng
enough: but 10 have to put everything
carefully away. o. else to have sitting
roona or den Uttered with sewing, is a
good deal more unpleasant. If you can
shut the door on your sewing room and
Its cares and tribulations at the end of
n long days sewing, sure that nothing
will be disturbed-that not one of the
many pins which mark alterations will
be removed-you can get away from
your work in wonderfully restful way.
If you can choose, have your sewing
room at the top of the house, and choose
a rather small roon-too big a place IS
too hard tc straighten up after each
periodic attack.
Have the room cleaned Just before you
expect to settle to get your fail sewing
out of the way, and have as little in It
as you can possibly get on with
If the fleOr is carpeted, have an Old
linen. covering to spread down under the
sewing machine; or spread down an olQ
sheet, which is probably better, at any
rate, as it is so much more easily kept
A big table on one side of the room.
or one Of those wide shelves which can
be let down and braced to serve as q
tabIe and folded uD cut Of the way when
not in use, IS an institution thaL pays
for itself in comfort a hundred times
over. Everything can be cut our On IL
and pressing and the thousand and one
different processes the slnp1est HIl!e
thing must go through TO be made right
ly can all be more easily accomplished
with such q help.
Have pressing irons up there. and .
tailor's goose. Nothing does more TO
give the right set to q dress @ Lhah 1 anS
right pressing, and ordinary irons are
too light Both iron and goose are to be
had with attachments for gas or dIConois
or arranged so that either gas or a1cohoi
will serve for the same IRON or II you Vs
electricity IN your house, an iron with
an attachment that screws into the
socket of a bulb light Is the easiest o
Don't have many chairs around, but
i let the few you have be low ana coma
Portable and without the hIsh arms tii'a'
One low roeking-chair should be IN
! cluded-it's so restful in that v0u ca1
| set more changes Of position with less
effort in it than in any other KIND
/ closet is most eninently TO be da-
| sired. and should have some deeg
| shelves for piing unfinished work ana
the various piece boxes on.
Bevoud that you need very little eIsa
| except your machine, and perhaps
/ form for fitting.
| Before you begin your sewing, lay o
| A stock of the necessary little things
| that usually give out just at the wrong
| time. needles and pins. tapes and hooks
| and eyes. and sewing cottons and silks
! especially If you've anything that uasasz
| lie matched.
Patterns can be kept in a drawer Of
! the machine. unless You use a goo9
many Of them. In that case, youd bss-
| ter have box for them, unless chest
/ Of drawers can conveniently spare yon
! SPACE for them. Each should be ROLES
by itself; or, better still, laid away Ia
an envelope, and plainly marked.
| After aIf the most important requiBss
! hasn't been mentioned. There must b
good light both natural and artificial.
| And the artificial should be arranged %
/ that it car be moved around-a,dJusts9
| to conn in the best place. It's Tntserabts
/ trying % TT yourself to a light, or 20
/ get along when you can hardly see sss
| Le2dlc OF the machine