Shortening Locknit
Dear Aunt Daisy, How do you shorten locknit articles? I have some, which are much too long.
) ETS a If I machine them, they just fall into holes. I’ve heard that you can machine lace on to the cut edges, provided the lace has a solid edge, but surely there is a way without using lace?
B.
P.
(Sydenham).
It is really quite a simple matter. All you do is to cut it to about quarter of an inch longer than you want it, and then take it to a firm which does "overlocking." Most of the inside seams of locknit garments are " overlocked"it gives an edging which will stretch with the locknit. I expect the big drapers in Christchurch have a service for buttonholing, hem-stitching, and overlocking, or you may know of some smaller firm which specialises in this work. There are usually one or two in the big cities. The cost is only a few pence per yard, and there is never very much to be done —
and then if you want to put some lace on, you can easily "whip" it on by hand.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 104, 20 June 1941, Page 46
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189Shortening Locknit New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 104, 20 June 1941, Page 46
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