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 While a pretty width is one inch wide, which means cutting the material one and three-quarters wide, it may be much wider even for aprons. For instance, in an apron of muslin of the unbleached type with the creamy tone but somewhat finer texture, wide bands of flowered cretonne in lovely colors were so

wide that the straps over the shoulders were entirely of the cretonne and only a little of the muslin showed above the band at the bottom.

To face an edge lay the facing on the wrong side of the goods along the edge as shown in Fig. 12. Turn it onto the right side and fold under the edge and stitch as in Fig. 13.