Baby Bonnet

I love old weaving books and magazines and have a complete collection of Mary Sandin's Loom Music. A few years ago my kids gave me some CD's from Handweaving.net as a Christmas present. I have gone through these and marked all the things I would like to try. The baby bonnet pattern came from "Practical Weaving Suggestions".

The fabric for the baby bonnet was woven at the end of the pillowcase warp. Often I weave off the last little bit of warp and have no idea what it will become. I not only have a stash of yarn, I also have a stash of small bits of woven fabric. Sometimes when trying to decide something about a future weaving, the answer will lie in these little bits and pieces. Sometimes the bits and pieces become something.

When my youngest daughter announced grandchild number 10 would be a girl, I decided to get my act together and create the bonnet. The original bonnet was done in wool but when I wove the sample in cotton, it immediately cried girly girl baby bonnet.

In the original bonnet, ribbons were sewn to use as ties, but I worry about anything like that being around a babies neck. Once I crocheted around the edges with a shell stitch, I decided I would crochet a piece to match that could be pulled around a button. This would make it easy to change the size and not have anything hanging that could be a potential choking hazard.

I have enough fabric to create another bonnet but this time I will trim it in white. After all my future grand daughter has to wear an original design!