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Now that you have learned in Lesson I to stitch, make seams and hand sew, you will want to put this knowledge to practical use in making charming and dainty things for yourself and others.

Greater enjoyment and quicker progress will be made by selecting the more simple garments for the first steps. The making of an apron, the most simple of all, may be the forerunner of an infinite number of successful achievements in making pretty things. However, do not feel that you are only learning how to make the aprons illustrated, but realize that these designs have been carefully selected and planned to demonstrate the different methods which can also be used in constructing patterns and making children’s clothes, ladies’ dresses, undergarments and negligees.