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 ''This practice in Lesson II will serve to train your eye in the selection of charming and becoming combinations of materials and colors as well as training in pattern making, planning the layout or cutting of the material. Also it will give skill to the hands in the various forms of sewing, including the folding of bias bands and applying of other finishing edges.''

After this lesson is thoroughly understood you will be able to copy any apron you see. Many a tempting but expensive idea in some specialty shop may be carried home in the mind’s eye, and with some delightful novelty goods from that mine of treasures, the remnant counter, a thing of beauty will be evolved at little actual cost.

There is an almost unlimited range of material for these captivating necessities, house dresses and aprons—from unbleached muslin through the calicos, percales, ginghams, seersuckers, chambrays to the art prints, chintzes and sateens. Or for midsummer the always attractive dotted and crossbarred swiss, muslin and organdie make the most bewitching affairs. And after all, since the homekeeper wears aprons so much, they should add a distinctive charm to her appearance rather than just be dully useful.