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- By: Vikki Clayton
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- How to make baby bonnets from lace hankies plus poem.
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- 1. Fold a square hankie in half, making a rectangle. |________|
- 2. Bring the folded edges together (Fold in half again).
- 3. Whip or overcast, starting at the bound edge of the hankie.
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- / \_____here!
- 4. Leave the thread attached when you reach the top (point of the
- fold) Tack the folded corner 1/3 to 1/2 way down the seam line.
- Cut thread.
- 5. Cut two lengths of ribbon, about 12" in length.
- 6. Attach ribbon by tacking it to the front corners of the bonnet.
- (it should look like a 4 sided box, no top or front.)
- 7. Add the poem & the gift is complete.
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- POEM:
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- Handkerchief Baby Bonnet
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- I'm just a little hankie, as square as square can be,
- But with a stitch or two, they make a bonnet out of me.
- I'll be worn from the hospital, or on Christening Day,
- Then, I'll be neatly pressed and carefully put away.
- Then on the Wedding Day, as I've always been told,
- Every well-dressed bride must have something old.
- So what would be more fitting than to find little old me,
- With a few stitches snipped, and a Wedding hankie I'll be!
- And if perchance it is a boy, some day he'll surely wed,
- So to his Bride he can present the hankie once worn on his head.
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- (Copied without permission from rct in July 93, author Wendy Crawford)
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