3. Make one-eighth inch hem from notch on each side, to top.
5. Pin the end of one narrow hem to double notch (VV) in top of other piece.
6. Pin the center of the then-double material to the center of the band, spreading the fullness of the gathers to the hips and back only―_no fullness in front_.
7. Make button-hole in right hand end of band.
NOTE.―If trimming is desired,―cut two ruffles, each five inches long, and one and one-half inches wide; and learn to make
1. Hem the lower edge of ruffles, and overhand lace on the hem.
2. Roll the upper edge of the muslin to the right side of goods, as you have rolled paper edges. Do not fold it. Practice rolling paper if the muslin seems difficult to manage.
3. With a No. 6 needle, and No. 40 cotton, overcast the rolled edge, taking the stitches no deeper than the roll.
5. Fell the two ends of each ruffle together; and overhand the ruffles to the legs of the drawers, sewing into each “whipping” or overcasting stitch as nearly as possible.
NOTE.―Fine goods whip more easily than coarse.
“She’s sound asleep,” she thought. “Won’t I surprise her!”
“What, all finished?” laughed Fairy Lady.
“Where were you, dear Fairy Lady?” asked Mary Frances.
“I was here―and tapes and tapes away;―away―away―away in Fairy Thimble Land.”
[Illustration: “She’s sound asleep,―won’t I surprise her!”]
“SAY, are you a really-person? Say, I say, are you real? You look so swell and so beautiful,―can you talk?―say, can you? I wonder if I can touch you, you pretty Mary Marie.”
Scissors Shears took a step nearer the doll.
“My, I wish you could talk! I’d like you to hold this muslin for me while I cut out your rompers. What! You won’t talk? You just sit looking at me―Stupid! You must think I want something to do! Humph! I wouldn’t be a doll, no!
“I wouldn’t be a dolly, a dolly, a dolly! I’d rather be a polly, a polly, a polly! For a dolly can’t talk, And a polly can talk; And a dolly can’t walk, And a polly can walk; I wouldn’t be a dolly, a dolly, a dolly! I’d rather be a polly, a polly, a polly.
[Illustration: “You just sit looking at me―Stupid!”]
“‛Pretty Poll!’ she can say―‛Pretty Doll!’―try it! Say, please try it, Mary Marie! Try it! I say! Doll, try it! If you don’t, you’ll be sorry! Say ‛Pretty Doll!’ say it! I say; or,―I’ll-cut-your-acquaintance;―then what’ll you do?