VINTAGE UNPRINTED PATTERNS DARTS, NOTCHES A

Darts are marked by V-shaped lines of perforations. A dart is made by bringing the two lines of dart perforations together and basting through the perforations (see image # 59) The illustration shows the material basted with corresponding perforations matched according to pattermn instructions. The line of basting a dart should follow the center of the perforations. Be careful to avaoid a pouch effect, a sort of pucker, something that is seen at the end of a badly sewed dart. Notches are used at seam edges to show which edges should be joined. Edges marked with notches are put together with the corresponding notches matching. (See images # 59, # 60 and # 62).