The Swallow Nightdress Pocket.
THE BIRDS ARE FLYING HOME TO BED.
Isn’t it just lovely to be able to make things all by yourself, without having to wait to be shown what to do next all the time. Mother is sure to be busy just when you want to know how to go on, and not have the time to stop to arrange your work for you. This pretty nightdress pocket can be made out of a long straight strip of material, folded up like an envelope. That sounds quite easy, doesn’t it, and I am sure you have often folded up paper like an envelope, haven’t you? You just divide it into three, and let one end lie over the other like a flap.
You will want about half a yard of white canvas, or linen, to make the pocket, and about 1½ yards of Cash’s Fancy Frilling, to put round the edge of the flap. Also you will need a ball of blue “Brighteye.”
ONE SWALLOW WORKED ON PENELOPE CANVAS.
Now, take a tape measure and measure your material each way. You want to have a strip 30 inches long and 15 inches wide. When you have cut this, measure up 18 inches of the length, and cut 1½ inches off the width of the strip at each side up as far as this, leaving the remaining 12 inches wider, to allow of the deep hem round the flap.
Now turn a 1½ inch hem across the narrow end of your strip of material, hem it along on what will be the inside of the pocket, and fold this end of the strip up to form the pocket, until the lower edge of the hem reaches where the material comes out wider at each side.