Chapter 1 The Pleasant Valley Girls Learn to Sew:

Lesson 1. Toweling and Other Cotton Samples 6

Lesson 2. The Story of How Cotton Grows 11

Lesson 3. The Hemming Stitch 19

Lesson 4. The Stitching Stitch 23

Lesson 5. The Overhanding Stitch 28

Lesson 6. Planning to Make an Apron 31

Lesson 7. Using the Running and Back Stitch on the Apron 34

Lesson 8. Making and Attaching the Apron Yokes 37

Lesson 9. How to Make a Buttonhole 39

Lesson 10. The Use of the Commercial Pattern 46

Lesson 11. Taking Measurements and Cutting Out the Petticoat 50

Lesson 12. Making the Petticoats 53