SEWING ON FUR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 April 1938, Page 4

SEWING ON FUR

HANDY HINTS. One of the mysteries of sewing, to the amateur, at least, is handling fur for collars and trimming. It can be managed by the home seamstress and handled very well if a few simple points are folowled carefully:

First —It must be realised that the fur should all go in one direction. Hence the first thing to do is to take a piece of chalk and mark on the back of the pelt a series of arrows with the points going in the same direction. Second —Then the pattern for the collar or for the trimming should be laid on the back of the pelt and traced around with a piece of chalk, a pencil or crayon. Third —The cutting must be done from the back of the pelt and with a razor blade or a sharp knife. Be careful not to cut any of the fur. This can be accomplished with a little care and patience. Fourth —If it is necessary to sew two pieces of fur together to form a collar or trimming, do not overlap the edges and do not allow for any seam. Simply bring the two edges together without lapping and sew together with an overhead seam. Here again, be careful to sew the pelt and not the fur.

Fifth —Sew a. tape along the outside edge of the fur on the pelt side and stitch this piece of tape to the garment.

A Shire horse is recorded as frequently stealing a haddock from the slab of a fishmonger near his stable and munching it with every sign of satisfaction.

“Butted to death through a window of his bedroom by a dream goat,” was the inquest verdict on a 64-year-old American. He told the hospital staff with his last breath that he had had a terrible dream, in which a goat chased him round the bedroom, then butted him through the window.