Baste
along
edges
To make—
NOTE.—Make the outside of the cape first. The lining is made in exactly the same way.
1. TO MAKE CAPE.—Pin the two pieces together with the right sides facing each other.
2. Baste the long seam (having three single notches).
Open the cape.
3. Baste the shoulder seams, matching the notches carefully.
4. Try on doll. Alter cape, if necessary. Stitch seams.
5. Make the lining in the same way.
Mary Frances opened the package
Press open all seams.
6. Turn in outside edges of cape and lining one-quarter inch, except at the neck. Baste. Press.
7. Pin lining in cape, wrong sides facing, carefully fitting seam to seam. Overhand or stitch outside turned-in edges.
8. Baste collar and collar-lining together. Stitch an eighth-of-an-inch seam along all edges except the neck-edge.
Turn inside-out. Baste along edges. Press.
9. Sew the collar to the cape, in same way as an apron band, first pinning the double notches in the outside of the collar to the double notches in the outside of the cape.
10. Fasten cape with a hook and eye.
“My, I do hope such finery won’t make Mary Marie vain!” said Fairy Lady.
“No,” said Mary Frances, “I think it won’t. I’ve explained to her that she must divide with all her sisters-in-law, and step-sisters, her whole outfit. It seems almost like a trousseau.”
“That’s true and sew!” exclaimed Scissors Shears.