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 To make a pattern tor a pocket.—Draw the ABCD box, Fig. 28, as the first step,commencing with the line AB and then making the cross lines AD and BC and finishing with the CD line. Be sure that the lines are at right angles, otherwise the pocket will be askew. From A to B is, eight inches and measure the same number of inches from C to D. The lines from A to D and from B to C measure five inches. Measure two inches above point B and mark E. Then, measure two inches above point C and mark F. (See Fig. 28.) Draw lines from the points E and F to the centerway point between B and C.

Always make your patterns without seam allowance, as it is much easier to see the shape of the finished piece. The seam allowance is added afterwards as in the dotted lines in Fig. 28. These dotted lines can be put on with a two-wheel tracer or marked with a ruler.