bastings

Bone-rackings and bastings be plenty enow in this life, without going out of one's way to invite them.

Vietnam: Solutions McCarthy, Mary 1967

Patience, pulling bastings with a business-like air, nodded her curly head wisely.

The S. W. F. Club Caroline E. Jacobs

Even the children have felt the call, and after school, which lasts from eight until four, little girls whose legs must ache from dangling, sit patiently on chairs removing bastings, or sewing on buttons, while their equally tiny brothers run errands, or watch to see that the soup does not boil over.

With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard

Aunt Judith worked all the morning, stitching the hems for the chintz curtains, and Rose pulled out the bastings, threaded needles, and in many ways helped to make the pretty things for the little front parlor.

Princess Polly's Gay Winter Amy Brooks

Sprite, usually eager to be out of doors, kept close at her mother's side, pulling bastings from the garments that she was making.

Princess Polly At Play Amy Brooks

Now remove the bastings from the seam and the slot effect is complete.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

After stitching, all bastings along the seams should be taken out by cutting the thread in several places.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

Sometimes she paused to look from the window, then again she would busy herself with the bastings, and after a time, Mrs. Seaford, looking up, noticed with what rapt attention Sprite was gazing out at the ocean.

Princess Polly At Play Amy Brooks

After all faults are remedied, the seams are carefully stitched along the line or basting, the bastings removed, the seams pressed and finished.

Textiles and Clothing Kate Heintz Watson

The afternoon was spent much as the forenoon had been, save that the bastings were all out of the new garments, and while Mrs. Seaford still plied her needle, Sprite picked up the book of fairy tales, and tried to read.

Princess Polly At Play Amy Brooks