I always wear a sunbonnet while doing the indoor household chores. Don’t you? If you like Ms. Sunbonnet Sue in quilt blocks then you’ll enjoy stitching this days-of-the week set.
A baker’s dozen! The Workbasket published these as a series in their magazine but I somehow ended up with 13. Maybe the boy with the wreaths is the odd one and the girl angel (ha ha) is supposed to be the Christmas kid. Or one of the two Irish shamrock kids is an imposter. The
Another sweet little girl days-of-the-week pattern except there are only 6 in this set and she doesn’t do all the chores. Slacker! Hey, cleaning and baking is enough for one week. Laundry can wait.
In this household most of the ‘wind” at our back is generally emanating from the lower extremities. She looks like a nice girl but not in the picture is the boyfriend walking a few paces ahead.
These were originally designed for hotpads but a sweet face can be stitched up for any purpose! Update: A couple more sweet faces, a girl wearing a bonnet and a boy in a straw hat for your stitching pleasure.
No farm is complete without people to run it! Here we have Susan who is probably the milkmaid as well as the hunter-gatherer. This vintage pattern is from 1943 but as you know, the stitches are still the same. To download Susan as a PDF file click here. This is Susan’s friend, Hiram, the hired
