HOW TO SEW

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 147, 18 March 1937, Page 6

HOW TO SEW

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Ruth Wyeth Spears

SLIP COVER FOR POCKET BOOK

WOULD you like a fabric pocket book ’’ for Easter to match a certain blouse, hat, jacket, dress or scarf? To be really smart such a purse should be stiffened to give it body. The eas’est way to accomplish this is to put your leather purse inside the fabric one only the thing is done just the other way round, The fabric purse is made as a shitover for any flat envelope type of leather purse you happen to have. It. may be a shabby old purse or it may be an exceptionally good leather one that you would like to protect. Anyway, you ean have an attractive linen cover "for it to match an autumn costumeThe first step is to make a paper pattern exactly the shape of the leather purse. Fold the paper around the front, bottom, back; then over the front of the flap ami up under the inside of the flap. Cut this paper just the size and shape of the purse. Seam

and hem allowance may be made later. A cutting outline may be obtained by rubbing along the edges of the paper while it is folded over the pocket book Now make a paper pattern of the shape of the ends of the purse, lu using these pattern pieces to cut the fabric, add Jin. at all edges to allow for seams, hems and a little surplus material so the cover will not fit. too tightly. The method of putting the slip cover together is illustrated here at the lower right. Notice how the seam allowance at the sides is slashed so a hem may be turned along the edge that goes over the top of the purse as shown at A. The raw edges of the seams on the inside of the slip cover should be closely overcast. The points where both sides of the snap fastener of the purse come should be marked on the slip cover and eyelets punchci and worked in the cover as shown, so the snap nnn- -ror' through them.