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.
To make—
1. Baste lining train-section to train of dress, right sides facing.
Stitch one-quarter inch from edge. Turn, and baste along edges.
2. To Make Plaits—
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.
Pin shoulders together
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.
Spider’s
Web
7. Join skirt with French seams.
8. Face the skirt, under arms, with an inch-wide bias facing.
9. Open plaits at bottom of dress.
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.
11. Turn in and hem the facing of train.