Bonnets: Part Deux (excuse my French)

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I made a couple more bonnets, and I think I have it down now.



Some of you may remember this ill-begotten... er, experiment:



I did learn a lot from it, though. My second attempt came out somewhat better:





I was rather pleased with it, except for the odd pleated thing that happened on the brim when I wasn't paying attention to the topstitching, and the fact that, when it was on right-side-out (as I had intended it, anyway), it looked like this:



So the inside became the outside, and vice versa. It might be for the best, anyway; that print, while adorable,



is a little busy. I think it works well as a lining.


Ta-da!

Onto the next one!

I had a better plan here. I attached the brim after the head part (is there a better name for that? Crown? Body??), made it come down longer in the back and, therefore, the sides as well, and fussed with the stiffener (I can't remember what the fabric store lady actually called it).















I may have gone a little overboard with the pictures. *Blush* (And all may now prostrate themselves before my madd photography skillz.) But I'm really proud of myself for perfecting this thing with no pattern or anything! :) I don't really have anywhere to wear them (and really, I'll probably only wear the white one; the blue one is rather too wonky to be seen in public), but I'll... find somewhere! To go sit in the park and read, or something. Yeesh. Between that old-fashioned nightgown (seen above), the bloomers I made to go under skirts, and now the bonnets, I might've been born in the wrong century.