| The Puppentour™ Quarterly |
Volume III · Issue 3 · Summer 2008 |
Here's a darling summer hat for your Bleuette or other small doll.
I found the pattern at the Puces de St-Ouen in Paris. Enjoy!
Nous Habillons Bleuette
Chapeau Souple
en Dentelle et Ruban
from La Semaine de Suzette
22 July 1920
Translated by Mary B. Lytle
Click here to download the original pattern (PDF 234k)
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This nice hat, very easy to execute, is composed of a foundation of lace and a flounce formed of gathered ribbon, turned up in front with two small rosettes of ribbon.
It is necessary to start by initially assembling entredeaux lace to obtain a rectangle similar to rectangle A.B.C.D.
Strips of entredeux lace are joined by an overcasting stitch, and their number varies according to the width of the entredeux empoyed. If the lace is wider than that of the model, you use less; you use more, on the contrary, if it is narrower.
As a general rule, a small girl who is prudent and economical must use the least materials she possesses to dress her doll. You thus can, for the foundation of the hat, employ entredeux of different widths by laying them out in an smart way – large placed between two more narrow, or conversely; and finally, to make the entire foundation in only one piece of lace, if it is of the desired size.
Then form this small lace rectangle by a seam which joins lines A.B. and C.D., which gives you a small sleeve. Then gather part A. C., and fix the thread, fastening the gathers: you have the foundation of the hat. It remains for you to make the edge, and it is very simple.
Take a piece of ribbon measuring 42 centimeters in length and of a width similar to figure 1, that is to say, approximately 2 centimeters. Close this ribbon by seaming the two ends, and gather the ribbon on one side only.
Then, pin the ribbon around the bottom of the lace cap and stitch the goods together cleanly.
The small ruches in ribbon are done while cutting a piece of ribbon the length indicated by figure 2; fold the ribbon into two so that it is no more than half of its width; pass then four small points of gathers at the places marked O.R.V.S.
Along the edge, made a row of gathers, like figure 3.
Then draw the thread from the gathers, and turn and stitch the petals thus formed in order to obtain a small flower like that of figure 4.
Then stitch these two small rosettes by raising up the front the edge of the hat.
All the remainder of the flounce of ribbon falls down gracefully on the hair of Bleuette.
Although it is always understood that one must use what one has, she is also allowed to choose in the aforementioned materials what will be most becoming to Bleuette.
If she is fair, Nattier* blue, jade green, mauve, or pale pink ribbon will become her; if she is a Tosca** hue or brown, coral, purple, cherry, sharp blue, lemon-yellow, or orange will suit her to charm.
Suzanne Riviere.
| * | a soft shade of blue much used by J. M. Nattier, French painter, d. 1766 |
| ** | includes a range of earth colors |
ORDER my complete collection of 22 original Bleuette patterns published in La Semaine de Suzette from February 1920 to February 1921.
The collection includes patterns for:
Cache-corset empire
Cape nouvelle a capuchon
Chapeau souple en dentelle et ruban
Chaussons fourres
Chemise de jour
Chemise de nuit forme empire
Costume tailleur brode de raphia
Drap de lit et taie d'oreiller assortie
Echarpe brodee
Manteau kimono pour Bleuette
Paletot au crochet pour Bleuette
Pantoufles en ruban
Peignoir nouvelle forme brode au point d'arete
Petit vetement kimono du matin
Robe de broderie anglaise
Robe de tulle plisse
Robe de lainage brodee de raphia
Robe de taffetas
Robe de tulle plisse
Robe d'interieur pour Bleuette
Robe faite de deux etoffes differentes
Robe sans manches
and a French/English glossary of pattern markings |
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