2. Name some heavy wool materials; some of lighter weight. Tell where you have seen them used. 3. Look up the story of how carpets are made. Perhaps you would like to study about rugs, too. 4. How do serges and broadcloths differ in appearance? 5. Plan to collect materials for the five columns of the chart. Mount with prices and widths. LESSON 4 MAKING A PAIR OF BLOOMERS Let us begin to make the bloomers to-day. =First, we shall lay the pattern.= Some girls have probably chosen serge for their bloomers, and some have ordered galatea or sateen. The black or the blue are serviceable. Suppose you cut them out to-day. You have studied the pattern which your teacher had. Perhaps some girls will find it necessary to add in length or width. Your teacher ordered the pattern by size, according to age. 14-year size was chosen. Perhaps you must make yours smaller or larger. One pattern can be adapted to the whole class. This you allowed for, in ordering the amount of cloth. Let us place the pattern carefully. Be sure that the perforations which indicate lengthwise of the material are placed on the warp. Can you cut out both legs at the same time? Can you tell where to place the two strips for the bands, and for the placket facings? Which way of the material will the length of band and facings be cut? Pin carefully in place and cut with an even motion. It will perhaps be safer to mark the notches with a pencil or with a white thread. Girls sometimes forget--cut the notches too large and spoil the cloth. =Then we shall learn to make a flat felled seam.= The _two_ legs are to be sewed up on the right side. Be very careful not to make both legs for the same leg. That is the mistake Marjorie Allen made. Baste the seam ½-inch wide. Then stitch close to the basting. Cut off one edge of this seam to within ⅛-inch of the stitching, and lay the other edge of seam flat on the cloth for the fell. Turn in the raw edge, baste, and stitch flat. This must be done very carefully, for it is very easy to make a fell which is wrinkled and full instead of flat (see Fig. 119). [Illustration: FIG. 119.--The flat fell, showing the three steps in making: _A_, the seam stitched; _B_, one edge cut; _C_, the turning of the other edge flat, to be basted and stitched.] Join the two legs together at the center with the same flat fell. Be sure to have the two leg seams come together. This is important.