Chapter XXIX
Mary Marie Goes Automobiling
“OH, my feathers and oh, my eye!” Sewing Bird was screaming, as Mary Frances came to the sewing room door for the next lesson.
feathers
and oh,
my eye!”
“Why, what’s the matter, Sewing Bird?” asked Mary Frances.
sang Sewing Bird frantically.
“Why, what is the matter, dear little bird?” again asked Mary Frances.
Sewing Bird replied:
Canary
hurt his
throat”
so loud
on every
note”
Canary
seemed to
like it”
“I met Jubey scudding into the kitchen,” laughed Mary Frances, “frightened to death,—she looked. I can’t understand how she got up-stairs, Magic and Mystery. I said to her: ‛Jubey, you’ll get no sympathy from me if you’ve been up-stairs.’”
“The strange part is,” said Fairy Lady, “that Dick Canary seemed to like it.”
my Grandma says,” replied Mary Frances.
“Oh, yes,” said Fairy Lady. “I do believe that is so; now, for to-day’s plans.”
“This time,” said Mary Frances, rather shame-facedly, “it is a real event. Mary Marie has been invited to take an automobile ride with Lottie’s ten children.”
“Oh, how delightful!” exclaimed Fairy Lady, “and so opportune!”
“Opportune,” thought Mary Frances. “Opportune—that must mean ‛just right.’”
“Yes,” nodded Fairy Lady, as though reading her thoughts, “it is ‛just right’—for I have to-day the
opportune!”
To cut out—
1. Fold goods crosswise. Pin pattern with edge having two rings (oo) on fold. Cut out.
2. Remove pattern. Spread coat open on a table.
3. Cut pattern along the one row of pinholes marked FRONT. (See Directions on Insert VII.) Fold pattern backward along the other row of pinholes.
4. Pin pattern in place on one end of coat.
5. Cut neck along the V-shaped lines.
Remove pattern.
6. Cut goods open from point of V-shaped neck, to bottom of coat.
This makes the front-opening.
7. Cut two collars with edge of pattern having the two rings (oo) on lengthwise fold of material.
8. Cut two cuffs with edge of pattern having two rings (oo) on lengthwise fold of material.
To make—
1. To face the front-openings:—
Spread coat open upon a piece of the material of which it is made, right sides facing.
2. Baste along front-opening, and around the neck, through the material underneath.
Cut open the underneath-material, along the opening of the coat.
3. Cut underneath-material off, one and one-half inches from edge of front-opening and around the neck.
4. Stitch facing in place one-quarter inch from edges. Remove bastings. Turn facings over to wrong side. Baste edge, along enclosed seam.
5. Closely notch, or “pink” the “raw” edges of facings.
fasten coat
Baste facings down along notched edges. Press.
Stitch (or “tack”) facings down near the notched edges.
6. Baste facings on ends of sleeves, on wrong side of coat.
Stitch one-quarter inch from edge. Remove bastings.
7. Turn facings over to right side, and baste along the turned edges. Turn down one-quarter inch at top, and stitch down.
8. Join coat under arms with French seams.
9. Make collar as for Fur-lined Cape.
10. Matching notches carefully, baste collar on coat, and sew in place as in making Fur-lined Cape.
11. Make a three-quarter inch hem at bottom of coat.
12. Fasten coat with two large buttons and button-holes.
To cut—
1. Fold goods lengthwise.
Pin pattern with edge having two rings (oo) on the fold. Clip the notch carefully.
2. In cutting Bonnet Band and lining:—Pin pattern with edge having two rings (oo) on a lengthwise fold of material.
ribbon
strings
To make—
1. One-quarter inch from edge, gather circular part of bonnet from notch in center back to notch in center front. Gather other side of circle.
2. Baste lining to Bonnet Band.
Stitch one-quarter inch from front edge.
3. Remove bastings. Open the band. Join ends in a plain seam. Fold lining down inside band, and baste along the circular seam. Stitch one-quarter inch from edge.
4. To Join Band to Bonnet:—Proceed just as in attaching collar to Fur-lined Cape.
First pin single center-front notch of bonnet and of band together.
Then the double notches.
Then single center-back notch of bonnet to seam of band.
Baste and sew in place, hemming down the lining.
Attach ribbon-strings at the double notches.
dear little
coat”
NOTE.—Trim bonnet with bunch of ribbon-rosette flowers, sewed on left side.
Fold back the bonnet band through the middle. (See dotted line on pattern.)
“My dear Thimble People!” exclaimed Mary Frances, after working a long while with the Needle-of-Don’t-Have-to-Try. “Never did a child have such lovely friends—never! Look at this dear little coat!”
“We love all children who are patient, and try to do their best!” smiled Fairy Lady. “So many are forgetful, or impolite and impatient.”
“I’m afraid I’m sometimes all of those,” said Mary Frances.
“And that is why you are loved so much!” Sewing Bird sang.
Mary Frances took Mary Marie, all dressed in her new automobile clothes, out to the automobile which had just pulled up in front of the door. And Scissors Shears, and Tommy Pin Cushion, and Emery Bag, and Pen Cil, and Needle Book, and all the other Thimble People, waved their cunning little hands.