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EDGINGS FOR GARMENTS

Slip 2: Insertion

In order for this insertion to lie fiat you have to vary the length of the threads leading from the rings. Those leading to the central ring of the ‘flower’ should be shortest, and the others slightly longer.

I have no doubt you can buy a pattern for these slips but, unless you have an overlocking machinę, it is difficult not to make the seams lumpy. I’m affaid I cheated and bought them - they had awful machinę lace and were not expensive. I cut a few inches off the bottom of this one, and madę the frill out of fine poly-cotton. I oversewed the raw edges by hand, pressed about 5 mm. to the inside, and oversewcd the tatting to the folded edge. It stayed in position without needing a visible hem.