Baby Handkerchief Bonnets - Baby Bonnet Poems

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Creative Ways to Use Vintage Handkerchiefs

A beautiful vintage handkerchief is a wonderful gift to give to a bride for her wedding day - a bridal handkerchief can be that "something old" that she needs.  After the wedding you can retrieve it and make it into a baby handkerchief bonnet for her first child. This child in turn can use it at her her own wedding! The bonnet hanky makes an heirloom that will be treasured for generations. Just search the internet for instructions for making these beautiful baby bonnets. We have many embroidered, lace, and Madeira hankies that would be perfect for this special little bonnet. You can find these in the Vintage White Hankies section.

Our son was given a beautiful white linen hanky baby bonnet when he was baptized. When he married, I snipped a few stitches and the bonnet once again became a square hanky and was inserted into the bridal bouquet and carried down the aisle by his bride.

To make this gift even more special, include one of these baby bonnet poems with the finished baby bonnet:

Cute Baby Bonnet

I am a little bonnet,
as cute as cute can be.
Would you ever guess a
hanky I used to be?

I can be worn home
From the hospital,
then again on Christening Day.
You can neatly fold
me and keep me for the Wedding Day.

Every bride must wear
something old – so you can
clip a stitch or two and
a wedding hanky will unfold.

If by chance it is a boy,
on the day he is wed
I can be presented to his bride.
Won't she be proud to use –
the bonnet he wore upon his head.

The Magic Hanky

I am just a little hankie, as square as can be;
but with a stitch or two, they've made a bonnet out of me.
I'll be worn home from the hospital, and on special days,
and then I'll be carefully pressed and neatly packed away.
Then on the Wedding, I have been told,
every well dressed Bride  must have something old.
So what would be more fitting than to find Little Old Me,
a few stitches snipped and a Wedding Handkerchief 
I Will Be!
And if per chance, it is a boy, someday he still will Wed.
So to his Bride he can present
 the "Magic Handkerchief" once worn upon his head.

An Heirloom

A tiny square of linen
And a dainty edge of lace,
Designed into a bonnet,
To frame your baby’s face.

After baby’s worn it
Fold and tuck away...
And it becomes a hanky
For your daughter’s Wedding Day.

Or if the baby is a boy,
On the day he marries
This can be the “something old”
His joyful bride will carry.