Um, that’s a “dopey” hat for baby… We don’t know if your baby has to be dopey to wear it or not. We’d bet that any baby wearing said knitted hat will appear slightly dopey — but in that charming way babies can get away with. Anyway, enjoy the free knitting pattern.
Pattern from 1969 Bernat Handicrafter Learn To Knit Book #127.
This vintage Mary Poppins scrapbook is unused. Copyright date of 1964, Walt Disney Productions; measures 14 and 1/2 by 11 and 3/4 inches.
Hey, ladies, “buy by the kit and save” when you make your own hats! From Fox Millinery Supply Spring-Summer Catalog 1966.
And, “Fruit & Berry Hats To Copy” — because, unlike Carmen Miranda, you need “new ideas,” and “helpful hints” to make “‘THOSE’ Clever Small Hats.” (Also included, “Make An Easter & Summer Veil Hat.”) From the 1961 Louie Miller catalog.
As promised, pattern instructions from Virginia Lakin’s Petite Bazaar Knitting Book Three. I’m including the hula skirt and the bra or swimsuit top — because I don’t want your fashion doll to go topless! (And the tips pages too, so you can be sure to make your fashion doll’s clothing just right.)
Photographs of vintage fashion dolls wearing homemade knit fashions scanned from Virginia Lakin’s Petite Bazaar Knitting Book Three (1963).
If you live in the US or Canada and love it, you can buy this vintage booklet from me; or you can check eBay.
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PS Keep an eye on Craft Scan Fridays for one or two of the patterns to be posted.
Start now! You’ll have it ready by Father’s Day.
When a girl’s lease doesn’t allow pets, she improvises. No word on whether or not he was a Blue Ribbon dog.
The stork didn’t exactly deliver Garanimals in 1972; one look at these uber-matchy maternity togs and it seems the retail world was pregnant with the idea of easy-to-match clothing in 1965.
“Cotton Chino Adds a Tang of Yellow to Black and White,” Montgomery Ward, Spring/Summer 1965.
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