The side we put up is the one that happens to be onAh, yes: making those seams was the way we learned to make good neat flat-felled seams---practice, practice. I still make a good flat-felled seam..... Then when the sheet began to wear in the center, one cut it apart and sewed what were the outside edges into a new center seam and hemmed the 'new' outside edges, thereby stretching the life of the thing until it truly was a rag, then it was laundered and carefully cut or torn into strips, which were rolled or folded and put in the 'rag drawer' on the left side. Those were our bandages.
top when we spread the sheet out.
Did anyone else have the experiance of sleeping on
flour sack sheets. They had a seam down the center
each direction because they were made of 4 sacks sewn
together. I was surprised to learn that most sheets
weren't like that.
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