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Fig. 20 Keep the wax or chalk thin on the edge and hold it firmly in marking around the pattern mark around it. Use ordinary paper weights and mark with tailor’s wax or chalk spoken of in Lesson I. Keep the wax or chalk shaved down to thin on the edge and hold a thin edge. Be very sure firmly in marking around the to mark along the exact edge of the pattern and hold the wax or chalk as in Fig. 20.

In the dressmaking trade, when all the pattern pieces are laid on the goods, it is called a layout. Throughout these lessons you will find the process of laying the pattern on the goods spoken of as laying out the pattern and the pattern laid on the goods as a layout.

Making a Waistline Apron Pattern.—It is hardly necessary to make a pattern for a garment so simple as a waistline apron. However, a pattern proves a great convenience, if you are cutting more than one apron, as it saves figuring out the proportions each time. Making the pattern will give you excellent practice and will show you how to slope the waistline, which information you can use later many times in various ways.

To make the pattern draw a straight line similar to the line AB in Fig. 21, using your

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