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Fold flounce in half, slashing the material with the points of the shears to the depth of one-quarter of an inch at center-front and center-back. (See Fig. 115.) Then fold the flounce again as in Fig. 116 and slash the new

Fig. (115) Fold the flounce in half		Fig. (116) Determining the four equal parts of the flounce

creases at the top as before. Run in four gather threads at the top—a gather thread between each two slashes. Draw up the gather threads until the flounce will just fit the bottom of the petticoat, keeping the spaces between the slashes in the top of the flounce equal.

Place flounce over petticoat with right sides of the material together and gathered edge of flounce even with lower edge of petticoat. Cut a bias strip of the material three-quarters of an inch wide. Place this along the lower edge over the flounce. (See Fig. 117.)

Stitch around the lower edge of the petticoat, running the stitching a seam's width back from the edge. Turn the flounce down

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