NOTE.―Cut and make a guimpe of lace. (Pattern 19.)
Do not use bands for sleeves, but cut sleeves narrower than pattern, and place the scalloped edge of lace at ends of sleeves.
[Illustration: Turn facing up on wrong side]
2. Pin pattern for Front of Wedding Dress with arrow on lengthwise of goods.
[Illustration: Bring folded edge over to basting]
3. Pin pattern for Back of Wedding Dress on goods.
Place the shoulders of both patterns together. Cut out. (See picture.)
4. Prick, with a pin, through lines showing the plaits, or use a tracing wheel. Remove pattern, and run basting thread through these pinholes.
Cut a separate train,―for lining of the train of wedding dress. Cut it like the pattern of the train.
1. Baste lining train-section to train of dress, right sides facing.
Stitch one-quarter inch from edge. Turn, and baste along edges.
Fold goods backward along the lines of basting nearest the center-front and center-back. Baste.
Bring folded edge over to other line of basting.
3. Lay flat, and baste all the way to bottom of dress and train. Press with a warm iron.
4. Stitch plaits down four inches from the waist line in front, and three inches in back.
5. Finish neck with a very narrow hem. Work French knots around the hem.
6. Make a narrow hem from waist line in front, across the shoulders, to waist line in back.
8. Face the skirt, under arms, with an inch-wide bias facing.
10. Cut a bias facing one and one-quarter inches wide, for bottom of dress. Baste facing on right side. Stitch one-quarter inch from edge. Turn up on wrong side.
Baste. Turn in, and hem the facing on wrong side.
Cut bag ten inches wide, and twenty-eight inches long. Make like Laundry Bag. Do not overhand seams, but make French seams.
1. Fold handkerchief through the center, wrong side out.
2. Stitch through the center of the folded handkerchief.
4. Stitch, or overhand the two folded edges which are lying together.
5. On one side of handkerchief turn down one thickness of goods. (Like an envelope flap.)
Do the same to the other side. “Tack” the center of the upper part of the folded edge of the flap to the _single_ thickness lying just beneath. Do same to other side
6. Make a small “box” plait (or double plait) in each single thickness of handkerchief at top.