A Baby's Cap

Finishing Class, from a manual published by the British and Foreign School Society, 1821

Q. What are you going to make?
A. A baby's cap.

Q. What shape is it?
A. The foundling shape.

Q. What quantity of muslin should you require for six caps?
A. Half a yard of yard and half wide muslin will allow three in the width, and two in the length.

Q. Will there be any left?
A. Yes, a small piece in the width, which will make the chin-stay, and slips to fell on the wrong side of the gathers.

Q. How much muslin will make the six borders?
A. Three nails of yard wide.

Q. How do you make a cap?
A. I first hem the front wide enough to admit a narrow bobbin; then fix the tucks to the size of the card, and run them.

Q. What next?
A. Sew and fell the back; set in the gathers, and stitch it about thirteen threads below the gathers; then fell the narrow slip of muslin on the wrong side.

Q. What next?
A. I hem the back; make th border and sew it on; work the eyelet-holes; and run in the bobbin.

Q. What next?
A. I make the chin-stay, and stitch one end of it on the left corner of the cap, and at the other work a button-hole.

Q. Where do you sew the button?
A. On the right corner of the cap.

Q. Where do you mark the cap?
A. On the left side of the back seam.

Q. Is the cap now finished?
A. Yes.