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A COMPLETE COURSE IN DRESSMAKING

machine stitching cording. It has to be stitched by hand.” Probably all the time, there was a cording foot packed away in her sewing machine drawer.

The cording foot is just like a regular foot except that the narrow frong isn’t there. This makes it possible to stitch close to the cording. See Fig. 38.


Fig. (38) A cording foot is made without the narrow frong that an ordinary sewing machine toot has.

You will find cording fully described in Lesson XII.

Probably in the seasons when cording is the style, every dress that you make will require endless cording. There is always more or less cording used to trim children’s dresses.

Quilter or Foot with Gage.—Just because this sewing machine foot is called a quilter

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