Weldon's Ninth Series - Hats, Bonnets, Shawls, Antis, Jackets and etc.

There are 28 projects and 22 illustrations in the Ninth Series. The subtitle is a fairly good description of the contents. Three patterns are hats or hoods/bonnets. There is only one shawl. Six patterns are antimacassars and another two are pieces of an antimacassar. There are five jacket patterns, five edgings and another five miscellaneous items.

The two hats for children (French Hat for a Baby Boy and Infant's Hood) are illustrated and they're pretty fancy. The "Hood for a Lady" didn't have an illustration.

French Hat for a Baby Boy

Infant's Hood

Some of the antimacassars in this series looked like they would be lovely. For the two done in Tunisian stitch (Tricot) with cross-stitch they say to just use the illustrations for the cross-stitch pattern.  I think the geometric one at the bottom would be doable but I'd need to enlarge the one on the right to figure out that pattern.

Here are some of the illustrations for the clothing items. I think the Dorothy Frock is adorable. It says it's worked in a "pretty, twisted stitch" and the skirt is done in the crazy stitch. I've seen the crazy stitch in earlier series and it looks similar to corner to corner but done across in rows instead of diagonally. The Gladys Jacket uses the loop stitch that I've been seeing a lot of in the previous series. That little Shetland Jacket might be a future County Fair project for me.

Dorothy Frock

Gladys Jacket

Lady's Jacket

Shetland Jacket

One of the more interesting household items is the Toilet Tidy. Everyone needs a Toilet Tidy to hang on the "knob of a toilet glass", right? They make it with peacock blue yarn and place a tin inside to help it keep it's shape.

I considered making the Wool Aster for next week but the Wool Dahlia didn't go as well as I thought it would so instead I'm making one of the patterns with no illustrations. It's titled, "Pretty Pattern for Using up Odds and Ends of Wool". Find out how pretty it is next week.