Fashion Design Drawing

ARROWHEAD TACKS are used at the top or bottom of plaits and laps and at the ends of seams and pocket openings. (Figs. 74,75,76,77.)

First make an outline of the arrow with chalk or pencil. Bring the needle up at point A, then take a small stitch at point B as shown by the position of the needle in Fig. 75. Bring the needle down at point C (Fig. 76), up very close to point A along the line

CA (Fig. 76), and take another stitch at point B close under the first one, and down very close to point C along the line CA. (Fig. 77.) The needle must go in on the chalk line BC and come up on the chalk line BA, keeping the outline of the triangle. Each

successive stitch below point B will be a little longer than the previous one. Repeat this stitch until the entire space is filled. The finished arrowhead is illustrated in Fig. 74. on the preceding page.

THE CROW'S-FOOT TACK is the most ornamental of the fancy tacks ordinarily used at the ends of Fashion Design Drawing - Practical And Ornamental Stitches 4.jpg

pocket openings and seams.

It is illustrated in Fig. 78, with the detail of the stitch in Figs. 79 and 80.

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chalk or pencil. The dotted outline seen in Fig. 79 shows the correct design for the tack. Bring the needle up at point A, pass it down at B, and up again at B outside of and close to the stitch in line AB; then down at C, up at

C outside of and close to the switch in line BC, and down at A just outside the stitch in line AB, as illustrated in Fig. 79. Now bring the needle up on the dotted line AG out-

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side the stitch on line AC close to A; pass it down on dotted line BC outside the stitch on line BC close to B; up on dotted line AB outside both stitches on line AB close to B; down on dotted line CA outside the stitch on line CA close to C; up on dotted line BC outside both stitches on line BC; and down on dotted line AB outside both stitches on line AB, as illustrated in Fig. 80. Fill in the entire outline in this way until the completed foot looks like Fig. 78. It will be noticed in making this tack that all the stitches are taken on the dotted lines and always outside the made stitches, thus compressing the first stitches so as to curve the sides of the tack like the outline.

For working these ornamental tacks, coarse buttonhole twist or twisted embroidery silk is usually employed, and it is generally the same color as the material. With a little practise these tacks can be well made, and any of them will add greatly to the finish of the garment. The crow's-foot is generally worked in scarlet or dark blue silk on the pockets of serge sailor suits. When it is used to finish the end of a plait in a skirt it is worked in floss the color of the dress.