Times were tough and the cupboard was bare. Helen had no choice but to find work where she could and Clubber McWacky’s Putt-Putt Golf was going to be her ticket out of this dump. By God, she’d be the best damned cup they’d ever had on the fourth hole. And who knows, if she could withstand the never-ending stream of low-impact blows to the head for long enough, maybe she’d get promoted to windmill!
….or she could be smuggling poodles….
It looks like it would just pop right off your head. OH… those 40’s chicks! They really knew how to wear a hat.
or, it’s a snowball magnet!
Looks like someone lost her dpns.
Instead of yelling Foouuurrrr, now they have to yell Thrrreeeee?
When she gets promoted, I’m sure you’ll find the appropriate attire for her 😉
Or the winner of the most flagrant misuse of pom-poms to hide shoddy workmanship! Did she think we wouldn’t notice that she never seamed the hat shut? for shame!
OMG OMG OMG. My grandmother made this for me. Not in the forties or fifties, no, but THREE YEARS AGO. I weep, I weep.
Actually, she made me eight of them. Alzheimer’s is the pits.
I made this!!! I was in the pattern book “Learn How” and I made nearly everything in it. My mother was an “older” mother (42 when she had me), so her pattern books were from the 40’s (I was born in 61). I credit this book for teaching me how to knit, crochet, and embroider (tatting was beyond me until I learned needle tatting a few years ago…the shuttle may have well have been the space shuttle for all I could make out of the instructions!).
I didn’t do the pom-poms on this hat (mainly because I didn’t have enough yarn…did I mention I had to use leftovers, or use my own money to buy the (acrylic) yarn?), but it was a good first project…if you don’t mind looking like an idiot. I wore it to the barn for years.
I learned to knit when I was 10, so forgive me…all I could get was acrylic, and I didn’t have another knitting pattern book for years.