Cozy Bed Jacket and Silk Panties Patterns
Here are a couple of patterns for the lady of the house. A cozy bed jacket and a pair of silk panties. The bed jacket can be made without cutting a paper pattern but it might be easier for the less experienced seamstress to make a paper pattern first. One suggestion for this bed jacket was wool challis but I think a lightweight polar fleece would work too and would be so soft and cuddly on a cold winter morning. You can trim the edges with a buttonhole stitch as indicated below but trimming in a soft cotton lace would be pretty too. Bed Jacket From the book: "Whether or not you eat breakfast in bed, like the lady in the sketch, a warm wool bed jacket is a comfortable thing to own. The one shown here may be cut without a pattern. You will need 1-1/2 yards of 36" material or 1 yard of 54" goods." Directions: "All the dimensions for cutting are given in the diagram [see below]. Fold the material the long way through the center as at A. Slash ...