Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1915 — KNIT BABY’S BONNET [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KNIT BABY’S BONNET

PRETTY HEAD COVERING THAT I# EASY TO MAKE. Best, Perhaps, In Rabbit Yarn or Saxony—Buccess Will Be Bure If One Will Follow the Directions Given Here. How cunning the little baby bonnets are knitted in rabbit yarn or saxony, and so easy to make! Indeed, anyone who can do the plain knitting stitch can make a bonnet by following directions:

First, it is necessary to find the face size. This will'be 12, 14 or 16 inches, according to the age of the child to wear it. Four skeins of two-fold saxony wool will be required, white or pink, as preferred. To make the bonnet cast on 82 stitches, using No. 2 bone needles. Knit in ridges for 14 Inches, or 107 ridges, and bind off. To make the band round the neck of the crown, with a steel needle pick up one stitch from the 107 ridges. Start on the right side and decrease to 54 stitches by knitting two stitches together to end of row. Knit 13 ridges on these 54 stitches, then bind off. If the bonnet is white, make the turnback flap of white satin or corded silk —a strip of ribbon about 3% or 4 inches wide will answer. Decorate with embroidered rosebuds, or, if this is beyond the knitter's skill, bought embroidery could be applied. The outer edge should be trimmed with a frill of narrow val lace and the flap lined with a bit of pink india or other soft silk. —- The knitting is laid in three plaits at the ears to shape the bonnet, the stitches to be concealed under rosettes of pink ribbon, i The raw edge of the flap is turned under the knitted edge and a cap lining of soft white silk fitted in. Then a ruching of lace is sewed in around the face, and lastly the ties of white or pink ribbon are added. Of course, one may keep the bonnet all white, all one color, or a combina-

tion of white and a color. For instance, if the baby is a boy the knitting and silk flap might be white and the ribbons blue. The embroidery could be forget-me-nots, or the entire bonnet, with the exception of the lace frill and the ruching, which would be white, of course, might .be blue. In that case pink rosebuds would be more effective than forget-me-ncts upon a blue background.

Made of Rabbit Yam.