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 Always use a cotton that contrasts to the material. A matching cotton is difficult to see and pick out.

If you use sewing silk to baste silk material, the stitches will not be so apt to leave a mark.

In basting one piece of material to another as a lining to a coat, use diagonal, basting as shown in Fig. 42. Diagonal stitches hold more firmly than running stitches. In