Through hem run a narrow tape
3. To Cut Neck.—Cut pattern along the row of pinholes, marked FRONT.
Gather
across
the
shoulder
Fold back along other row of pinholes.
Spread waist open on table.
Pin pattern in place on one end of waist. Cut neck by the turned-in V-shaped outline.
To make—
1. Join skirt and make placket as in white lawn petticoat.
2. Make a three-quarter inch hem at the bottom.
Gather top, using two gathering threads. Begin each thread in center top of skirt.
3. Fold waist lengthwise. Cut open the back from center of square of neck. Make half-inch hems down the backs.
4. Make a narrow hem around the neck-opening.
5. Spread waist open on table. Cut a piece of baby ribbon two and one-quarter inches long. Cut another piece one and one-half inches long.
6. Fasten, by sewing through a bead, one end of each piece of ribbon to one side of the V-shaped neck opening, in the place shown by the pinholes in the pattern.
7. Fasten other end in same way, making the front neck opening one and one-quarter inches wide at the top, and three-quarters of an inch wide at the pointed end.
8. Join with French seam from notches to bottom of waist.
9. Hem armholes above the seams.
Gather across the shoulder fold, making the gathered goods measure one inch across. Fasten thread.
Fasten ribbon by sewing through a bead
10. Cut a belt of half-inch-wide white tape, making it eleven inches long.
Gather bottom of waist. Turn in ends of tape belt one-quarter inch.
11. Baste gathers of waist flat to tape belt, having tape on wrong side. Baste gathers of skirt flat to other edge of tape belt.
Stitch in place. Sew lace insertion, or ribbon beading over the gathers on the right side.
12. Make button-holes, and sew on buttons.
13. Trim the hems around the neck-opening and armholes with