Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-01-18
SEWlNG-ROOM WISDOM
LITTLE THINGS THAT VILE ELM
MATE TROUBLE.
All Preparations Should Be Made Be-
fore Actual Work on the Garments
Is Commemorative Machine.
in Perfect Order.

Do you begin feeling that you will
go mad before the garment is COM
pleted? Do you carry your sewing
from room to room, losing this, that
and the other thing, and never know
ing where needles and thread are?
Do you wait till the sewing day be-
fore cleaning the sewing machine? If
you do any one or all of these things
you are wrong The fates of the
thread and needle must be coddled-
and all the job begins with hopeful
frame of mind. You have sewed sue
cessfully before this; why should YOU
fail now?
So first buckle on your armor of
faith in yourself. Then, if you haven't
done so already, the week before the
important business begins try to turn
a good part of a light, airy room in O
the sewing establishment. If whole
room can be given up to it, and kept
for the purpose, all the better. Have
the room cleaned before you begin
any part of the important feat, for
cleanliness is great rest to the
spirit Have a little crockery bowl
or pretty pitcher somewhere with a
bright flower that you can look at
when your heart gets tired. Put the
sewing machine near a window and
arrange it and the chair so that the
light will fall over your left shoulder.
Clean it the day before the work is
to begin, and if it seems very dusty
oil it thoroughly with kerosene oil,
and after cleaning it we'll with this
put on a fresh but light supply of
machine OIL On the sewing day see
to it that no particle of grease is left
about the needle or foot to soil the
dainty material that is to be made
up by sewing scrap over and over
until the thread shows no OIL
For all the big cutting out try to
have a large table, for this is more
convenient than the lap board, which
is never long enough for some things.
Put this table conveniently near the
sewing machine, and have smaller
and lower one beside it,, with all the
sewing traps-shears, smaller scfs-
sors, paper of needles, one Of pins,
hooks, eyes, buttons, tapes and what
ever Innings or facings are to be used.
But put the dress material on the
big table on which it is to be cut out,
and have somewhere in the room bit
of muslin or dress lining which may
be cut up to try effects with collars,
cuffs, trimmings, etc. Then fasten the
shears with long braid to your belt,
put the tape measure in the pocket of
your sewing apron and pin a small
pincushion to the left side of your
dress waist, stabbing it first with sew
eral needles and pins.
With this get-up, which is, of course,
for the actual sewing day. little more
than ordinary good sense is essential.
In using all fat paper models it is
necessary to read the directions on
them and not go contrary to their
rules. They should also be bought by
exact bust or waist measurements,
and with any change-increasing or
decreasing the size-the alterations
must not be made at the edges of
the model, but midway in it's length
or breadth.
For the rest be kind to yourself
and to the next day. Eat a good
luncheon and never put up work for
the night without laying each band,
gusset and seam where it surely can
be found the next morning. Through
all the sewing-taboo the visitor and
ST. straight in your chair, never bend
ing the chest or stomach.
Use basting thread it saves max
ing mistakes that take a long time
to alter.