6. Make a half-inch hem in bottom of guimpe. Through this hem run a narrow tape, threaded into a bodkin.
7. Turn the _narrowest hem possible_ in the neck. Do not attempt to hem this with hemming stitches, but overhand it closely.
8. Overhand narrow lace edging in the neck and sleeves.
9. Make three button-holes, and sew on buttons.
Suggestions for material.―Flowered dimity or lawn.
1. The skirt should be cut: five and one-half inches long―with the _lengthwise_ of the material.
Thirty-two inches wide―_across_ the material.
Fold material crosswise. Pin pattern with edge having two rings (oo) on the fold. Cut out. Remove pattern.
[Illustration: Through hem run a narrow tape]
3. To Cut Neck.―Cut pattern along the row of pinholes, marked FRONT.
[Illustration: Gather across the shoulder]
Pin pattern in place on one end of waist. Cut neck by the turned-in V-shaped outline.
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.
Gather across the shoulder fold, making the gathered goods measure _one inch across_. Fasten thread.
[Illustration: 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.