  CHAPTER XXVIII DOLL’S KNITTED HOOD L “LOVELY s’awl,” laughed the pleased dolly, when Mary Frances tried the little shawl on Mary Marie. “Nice warm st’etchy shawl,” as she wrapped it close over her shoulders. She meant stretchy, you know. To thank them. Mary Frances carried her into the sewing room, “to thank her kind friends who taught her mamma to make it,” which pleased them all very much. When Mary Frances started to take the shawl off, Mary Marie cried, “’Oo tan’t hab my s’awl; I’ll be told,” so Mary Frances sat her on the table with the shawl around her, and gave her her doll to play with. “Nice warm st’ctchy shawl.” “Mary M’rie needs a nice ’ittle bonnet, to wear wif Sew A-C and B-D “I will go get your little cap,” said Mary Frances, starting to go find it. “No, no, Mamma,” cried the doll-baby. “Don’t want tap. I want bonnet. Teep ears warm,” and she began to rub her little ears. Mary Frances laughed. “You can pull your cap down on your ears, dearie,” she said. “No,” said Fairly Flew, “what Mary Marie wants is a real little bonnet, just as she says—one that will tie under her chin and cover her ears. Yarn Baby has just been waiting to give you the rules for making— Doll’s Knitted Hood(See picture opposite page 230—color plate)
Directions: 1. Cast on 55 stitches with pink wool. 2. Knit plain for 4½ inches. 3. Break off pink wool and tie on the white wool, and knit 4½ inches. Bind off the work. Fold on A-B To Form the Hood1. Fold the strip together across the two colors along the line a and b. Cap finished. 2. Sew (overhand) with Saxony wool along edges a c and b d. 3. Turn inside out to put seams on the inside. 4. Now fold on the line where the two colors are joined, and overhand the colors together on the open edge. 5. Thread a long-eyed needle with three-quarter yard narrow pink ribbon and sew with small basting stitches along the edge just overhanded—to use to tie cap. 6. Fasten ribbon rosettes on each corner for trimming. Fairly Flew’s magic needles lay on the table, but Mary Frances did not like to use them without the fairy’s special permission. So she took Knit and Knack up in her hand, and they did their very best to help her, sliding into the stitches almost by themselves. In fact, they did so well that it did not take Mary Frances long to finish the little cap. “Isn’t that boo’ful!” exclaimed Mary Marie, clapping her hands as Mary Frances held it up to view. “Pit it on, Mamma. Please pit it on Mary M’rie!” To tie cap. “Wait until I put on the strings, dear,” said Right kind of ribbon. Very soon Mary Marie had on the beautiful soft warm hood. “Oh, doesn’t she look sweet in that?” exclaimed Mary Frances, kissing her. “Ears nice and warm, Mamma. Mary M’rie s’eepy now.” And Mary Frances carried her off to bed. “T’ank ’oo all, berry much,” said Mary Marie, throwing kisses, as Mary Frances stopped in the doorway for a minute. “Tank ’oo all.” |
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