Quote Originally Posted by way2fractious View Post
Thank you, Pleater. You are right about using the term "dart", which is the term Barbara uses in the book. Alas, I am not terribly skilled at sewing generally. Any poor skills I may possess relate only to making kilts, nothing else.
No need to sound contrite - I just thought I'd pipe up for the sake of clarity.

Mind you if you'd had our Miss Ragg teaching you sewing at an impressionable age you'd know all the terms and be able to recite them alphabetically (probably whilst standing to attention). She was the games mistress as well.

She probably mugs teenage gangs on the way to fetch her pension these days.