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New Embroidery Pattern Series: Daily Sunbonnet Gal
Here’s the latest freebie embroidery pattern set I’ll be sharing on Tipnut–a Sunbonnet Gal Days Of The Week dishtowel set. I believe this sweet vintage pattern is from the 1950s and was a mail-order pattern. She’s not Sunbonnet Sue, but still quite a lovely design.
The Sunbonnet Gal is depicted doing a different chore for each day, and the letter for that day is outlined in flowers. Here are the details from the pattern:
This pattern contains motifs for decorating kitchen towels. Use linen or some other toweling. They are to be embroidered in a variety of colors using six-strand cotton.
COLOR SUGGESTIONS: Embroider clothing in bright colors to match color of kitchen; skin, pink, tan or peach; chair and ironing board, ecru, brown or red; laundry, pastel colors; mixing bowl and spoon, orange or pink; basket, straw-color; groceries, natural colors; broom, yellow with a brown or tan handle; dustpan, grey or green; flowers, a variety of bright or pastel colors to harmonize or contrast with color of the room; leaves and stems, two or three shades of green.
MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS: Regulation dish towel or if using toweling by the yard, 1 yard for each towel. Embroidery thread.
PLACING MOTIFS: Center one motif on one end about two inches above hemline.
TRANSFERRING PATTERN: Cut the motif from pattern. Pin it securely in place on material, printed side down. Place the material on ironing board or other padded surface. Try out heat of iron on trial motif. Press over pattern with a moderately hot iron.
EMBROIDERY: Follow Color Suggestions and work dots in French knots or fine satin stitch; single lines in single stitch; continuous lines in outline stitch; loops in lazy daisy stitch; broken lines, running stitch; and crosses, cross stitch.
This Week’s Freebie: Monday Sunbonnet Gal
Today is laundry day and Sunbonnet Gal is hanging clothes to dry on the clothesline. You can see the old wooden clothes peg in her hand while she hangs up linen of some kind.
You can download the pattern here: Sunbonnet Gal – Monday Download.
Printing Instructions: Make sure to save the pattern to your computer desktop first (right click, save as…), then open the file on your computer, select “Print”, uncheck anything like “Fit To Page” then print. These will each fit on an 8 1/2″ x 11″ sheet of paper.
If you need help transferring the pattern, see this page: Embroidery Pattern Transfer Tips – Vintage Notes.
I hope you like the new freebie set, there’ll be a new pattern from this series available next week. In the past I chose a different day each week when posting new patterns, this time I’m going to stick with Wednesdays for vintage pattern days–we’ll see how that goes 
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Help. I can’t figure how to print the Sunbonnet Gals. Everytime I try to print I get only a small part of the picture way off to the right of the paper.
I have disabled everything I could find on the print screen. What is the trick?
I really want this series to do and frame for my granddaughter. Would appreciate any help you can give.
Thanks pms
Hi pms, can you tell me what program you are using to open the graphic? I’ll try to help!
THese are so sweet!
Is there a pattern for Sunday? If soe can you let us know the link to it?
Thanks!
Hi Sharon, Sunday’s pattern hasn’t been posted yet but check back next Wednesday
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I stumbled on this site looking for embroidery patterns. Sunbonnet gal is just adorable!
Any chance there’s any Mr Sunbonnet’s coming out? (or already out?)
I am so happy to have found you. I love the vintage patterns and they are not easy to find. I will stop back often. Thanks for being here.
Peg
Good Afternoon, thank you so much for the Sunbonnet Gals – they are so lovely and “Old fashioned”. Do you perhaps have a design, even if it is just 1, of the Lady wearing a crinoline dress. The designs always had flowers and a dove or two. Cannot find any. Or is there too much detail in. Anyway, thank you for all the lovely free patterns. Kind Regards, Linda.
I am new to embroidery. My mother-in-law got me started. I love the old fashioned patterns. I have always done counted cross stitch but I like this alot better. Please keep them coming. Thanks!