{"id":18727,"date":"2011-10-14T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=18727"},"modified":"2022-01-01T03:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T08:15:44","slug":"childrens-hankies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/14\/childrens-hankies\/","title":{"rendered":"Children’s Hankies"},"content":{"rendered":"

UPDATE–see update at the end of this post.\"childrens<\/a>
\n“He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 Rev. R.H. Barham<\/em><\/p>\n

And I surely don’t want that to be said of my granddaughter, Laurel.\u00a0 The poor child has allergies and without warning, her\u00a0 little freckled nose can run amuk. Having a handkerchief in her pocket gives a measure of confidence, now that she is, in fact, seven years old.\u00a0 She does NOT like to be embarrassed.<\/p>\n

This week, Laurel sang the national anthem with the Orlando Symphony, along with several other children.\u00a0 Each represented a school or group and was invited to sing at a special performance for children.<\/p>\n

And what does this have to do with handkerchiefs? She choose to wear her smocked Liberty of London sundress<\/a>.\u00a0 The handkerchief above was tucked in the smocked pocket and coordinated nicely.<\/p>\n

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This plain white 8″ linen square was lying idle in my handkerchief collection.\u00a0 With its sweet variegated purple crocheted edge, it seemed to fill the bill, though I like to add a monogram whenever possible.<\/p>\n

I’ve always been intrigued by children’s handkerchiefs.\u00a0 How did any survive the rough and tumble life in a child’s pocket?\u00a0 How many were just lost? And all\u00a0 that heavy laundering!\u00a0 In an earlier post about handkerchiefs<\/a>, I recalled a childhood friend with whom I rode my bike to school each morning.\u00a0 Daily, his mother’s parting words were “Curtis, do you have a clean handkerchief?”\u00a0 Daily, his parting words were, “Yes, Mama,” and off to school we rode.<\/p>\n

Handkerchiefs have fallen out of favor with today’s children and I wonder why.\u00a0 No matter that the need for a nose wipe can arise at any moment–no child carries a box of Kleenex around.<\/p>\n

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Some time ago, I made this hanky for Laurel to keep in her ballet bag.\u00a0 Like the playful kitties below, it, too, is the standard 8″ square.\u00a0 The cats are printed on this sturdy, machine hemmed fabric.\u00a0 I can just imagine a little girl smiling as she slipped this in her pocket<\/p>\n

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Given the run of her nose, I hope to make more.\u00a0 With less than a yard of edging and an 8-9″ scrap of linen or batiste, the little project is quick, useful and so much prettier than a purse pack of tissue.<\/p>\n

I’d really like to see pictures of any children’s handkerchiefs you have collected or made.<\/p>\n

Don’t you just love this quote?\u00a0 I’ve always appreciated Ambrose Pierce’s wit.<\/p>\n

“Handkerchief,” n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and especially serviceable at funerals to conceal the lack of tears. The handkerchief is of recent invention; our ancestors knew nothing of it and entrusted its duties to the sleeve.”<\/strong><\/em> Ambrose Pierce<\/em><\/p>\n

This just came in from Jenny:
\nI also love hankies for children.\u00a0 Especially when in bed because they don’t shred to bits.\u00a0 A few years ago, when I went looking for hankies, all\u00a0 could find were plain white ones at Wal-Mart.<\/em> <\/tt><\/tt><\/tt><\/tt><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Since then, I’ve bought nearly every hankie that I’ve come across in thrift stores and such! \ud83d\ude09 But I haven’t accumulated many\u00a0 that are specifically geared for children (and none are embroidered).\u00a0 The clown balloons and the hearts are the only ones.<\/em><\/p>\n

The second picture is of a hankie that my Mother (or maybe Grandmother?) gave me when I was very young and I have carried it with me more or less ever since.\u00a0 I thought I had lost it when I was pregnant with my last child, and I was DEVASTATED.\u00a0 But then I found it in my winter coat pocket again the next cold season.<\/em><\/p>\n

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UPDATE–see update at the end of this post. “He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.”\u00a0 Rev. R.H. Barham And I surely don’t want that to be said of my granddaughter, Laurel.\u00a0 The poor child has allergies and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":18730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,18,1],"tags":[233,234,235],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18727"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39247,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18727\/revisions\/39247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}