Bonnet Girl Cross Stitch

The bonnet girl or sunbonnet sue has been around a long time. Even as early as the 1800’s.

They were first used in school primers to teach children to read.

People fell in love with the bonnet girl’s sunny disposition and started using them in their craft designs, mainly quilting.

But as we see in today’s vintage patterns from 1921, they can be seen in cross stitch designs as well.
 

Bonnet Girls: Patterns From the Past

This book has been around and popular since 2001:

It’s not surprising since you can choose from 15 Bonnet Girls, their children, menfolk, and pets and create a family. Plus there are more than 30 props – hats, parasols, flowers, animals, and background settings that are interchangeable.

More than just Bonnet Girls

This page of cross stitch patterns include more than the bonnet girls. There is a farm boy, an elephant, birds, a horse and a lovely vase of flowers.

Anne Orr is the designer of this page of counted cross stitch.

A color thread chart is not included but the designs are done in color so it will be easy to find the right threads.

Download Instructions: Right-Click on the image. Select either “save link as” or “save image as” depending on what browser you are using. Or simply click on it, it will open in a new window and save it from there.

(The PDF file is below if you’d rather save it in that format)

Pretty Articles Made From This Sheet

The back of the sheet provides ways to use these images on practical every day items such as a school bag and table cover.

Anne Orr

I’ve done several posts of Anne Orr designs. In one of them I go into detail about her contribution to the craft patterns of her day.

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PDF Pattern Sheet Download

Bonnet Girl Cross Stitch Pattern Sheet

The pattern is in PDF format so to read it you’ll need the Adobe Reader software on your computer. Most computers come with it, but it is free and can be found here.

Download Instructions: Right-Click the link and select either “save target as” or “save link as” depending on what browser you are using or simply click on it and save or print.

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