A bonnet for your pixie..........

     My husband's grandmother recently gave me some of her old Australian Home Journal magazines.  I love old magazines, especially ones that have old knitting and sewing patterns.  At one point I loved them for the illustrations.  Now I love them because they are a window into the way things used to be made.  You can know all of your vintage style by sight, but not until you've knit or sewn a pattern from the early twentieth century do you truly begin to understand how these clothes were constructed and fit.
    The ladies these magazines were geared for are the original "wing it" designers.  Nothing says "now figure it out yourself" like a pattern with instructions that abruptly end or else tell you to now "finish all with 1/4" bias binding".
     This pattern is one of those - it tells you everything you need to know to make it, but it leaves just enough room for you to wing it.  Plus, little girls don't wear enough bonnets anymore and they are so cute!

Please don't use this pattern for commercial reasons.   These things shouldn't sit in a box in someone's attic, forgotten, and that's why I share them with you...............