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and make them about one-eighth of an inch long. Keep them as even as possible. At the center of each rose work several over-and-over stitches. Use the white mercerized cotton for appliquing the roses in place.

If you do not care for the rose and white scheme, try lavender on pink or black net cherries on an old rose chemise or nightgown. Another attractive combination is light green applique work on a yellow garment.

Scalloped Trimmings: Your trimming won't cost anything extra if you use folds of the material for scallops at the edges. It's just about as smart a finish as you can give a muslin or silk undie too.

There are just three steps in making it. First cut your folds. You will remember
Fig. (23) Stitching the fold that you learned how to cut bias folds in Lesson 11. Fold the bias as shown in Fig. 23 and stitch along the edge. To turn the fold right side out, fasten a bodkin to one end by catching a thread to one end of the fold, passing it through the eye of the bodkin and then

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