Help with Felicity’s next two pieces…

Hi everyone and welcome to the month of July!
Thanks for helping me out with the Contact Me Form… there is something definitely going on with it and I will ask for Sarah’s help hopefully tomorrow. I bet it’s an easy fix for her.

I’m trying to remember the questions you asked and all I can think of is Barbara’s… how do we keep our Hibiscus over the winter. My hubby cuts it back after it has finished blooming… and puts some mulch and leaves around the stems… we’ve been here for 24 years I think and it’s never failed to come up the following Summer.

Tomorrow I’m going to show Anne’s colorful pictures. She is SO talented! :o)

Okay… moving onto Felicity…

I had this brainy idea to make her a dainty cap… but I didn’t want to just do a pinner cap (they aren’t my favorite), so I looked online at ideas and then a book I have on Colonial wear for young girls and women. Embroidered eyelet was out because it didn’t come into fashion until the early 1900’s, if I remember correctly. However, in 1775 and later, the women and girls did use linen fabric and when decoration was needed, they used the Pulled Threads method.

I looked through all my vintage hankies searching for a white one, or at least the whitest one in the bunch…

I found ONE tiny half of a hankie that I had used the other half for something else. It was big enough to go across her head. It had the pulled threads and was a linen fabric. It just might work.

I gathered up the back, finished off the edges with a narrow piece of batiste binding and then attached a piece of pretty cotton lace to each side.

I don’t know why it looks better in person than it does in my pictures, but it looks flat in the pictures. It’s like I can’t show you how it looks 3D! It’s just meant to sit on her head… pretty much like a pinner cap does.

I folded the front edge back and let the sides stick out a little bit and then called my hubby in and asked him what he thought. He loved the dress and the color of it, but asked… “IS SHE A NURSE?”

AAARRRGGG! Are you kidding me? A nurse? I actually thought it was quite cute that way, but maybe not…

So, I stopped with the cap and moved onto a necklace… I had an glass beaded ivory one, a “sort of red” one, but it might be more raspberry…it changes colors in the different lighting. And then I had a white faceted one that’s on a wire and pretty much just for looks, but you can see that it’s the white one.

Here they are…