Handkerchief Bonnet - Hand Embroidered (Pink and Blue Daisy Design)

Description

Do you know of this tradition? This is a handkerchief that has been made into a bonnet. You present this bonnet to the mother-to-be at the baby shower or at the hospital when she has given birth. The new baby wears the bonnet home from the hospital, then it is carefully packed away. On the child's wedding day, the bonnet is unpacked and a thread at the back is "snipped". The bonnet becomes a handkerchief again. This handkerchief becomes the "something old" to carry down the aisle.

I have started with a new quality lace handkerchief and have hand embroidered a swag of pink and blue flowers with green leaves along the front edge. The embroidery pattern is based on a vintage design.

This bonnet comes to you packaged in a beautiful gift box, inside it is wrapped cornflower blue tissue paper and includes the following poem:

A tiny square of Linen
And a dainty edge of lace
Designed into a bonnet
To frame a Baby's Face
After Baby's worn it
Fold and tuck away.
It will become a hanky
For Baby's Wedding Day.
If the Baby is a boy
On the Day he would marry
This will be "something old"
For his joyful bride to carry.

~ Hand wash cold water with mild soap. Lay flat or hang to dry. Steam iron to remove wrinkles.

~ Care instructions enclosed, along with a free gift with each order.

~ Sending this as a gift? Please let me know in "notes to seller" at check out and I will enclose a gift card at no extra charge.

~ Interested in other bonnet designs? Please contact me. I am very happy to take custom orders.

Added on Oct 26, 2009

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