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How to Make a Hand Smocked Baby's Bonnet

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How to Select your Flower Girl

The flower girl is usually between 4 and 8 years old and is ‘special’ to the bride, the groom, or both. Often the selected flower girl is a niece or cousin, a close family friend, or a neighbor. Some weddings have two (2), three (3), or even four (4) flower girls. Sometimes there is no flower girl at all.

The flower girl walks with a basket of flowers, scattering flowers, flower petals, flower stems or potpourri, before the bride makes her trip down the isle. Preferably, the basket is small and wrapped in satin and decorated with ribbons or flowers.

The flower girl usually walks down the aisle behind the bridesmaids. On some occasions the flower girl walks in front of (or behind) the maid of honor, depending on the ceremony.

Usually the flower girl is no younger than 4 years old as a younger child may become easily confused, or frightened. Girls older than eight may be better reserved for reading something aloud during the ceremony, or even junior bridesmaid.

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Christening Gowns

The christening or baptismal gown is traditional ceremonial garb for a child being baptized in most Christian denominations. The custom of wearing a christening gown goes back to early Christianity and what was known as “white week”. The white week was a time when newly baptized Christians wore white linen robes to symbolize their rebirth and new life.

Today, the child being christened wears a special outfit that is usually white, as this color symbolizes purity, although sometimes the gown is ecru, ivory, or natural. Any family member may buy, donate or make the christening or baptismal gown. In many families, the christening gown is passed from generation to generation. The fabrics most often used are 100% cotton and linen as these fabrics, with proper care and storage, will last for many years. Sometimes pure silk is used.

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Hand Smocked Baby's Bonnets

Initially, bonnets were a wreath of leaves and flowers worn to celebrate the coming of spring, the beginning of new life after the long cold winter.
In addition to natural flowers and leaves, many material were used to make these decorative wreaths, including paper, fabric, ribbon, hair, feathers, and sea shells. The round shape symbolized the shape of the sun and the path the earth takes around the sun.

Baby bonnets were made with a wide brim and a deep curtain at the neckline to protect the baby from sun, rain and wind.

Recently wearing a baby bonnet became popular and fashonable as babies of the rich and famous were seen wearing baby bonnets.

These baby’s bonnets are made using either expensive fabrics or traditional gingham. During the summer, baby bonnets would be made of light weight fabrics such as batiste, In the winter bonnets would be made using velvet, satin, moiré, and heavier materials in addition to being more lavishly decorated.

While most of the baby bonnets are designed for girls, there are bonnets or caps designed for boys also. The design of caps for boys is much simpler. These caps are worn when taking baby pictures, and often complement the christening outfit.

Babies up to one year old, frequently wear a soft cotton cap to help regulate their head temperature. Baby’s bonnets usually cover the hair and ears, leaving the forehead uncovered, thus framing the face.

Most bonnet worn today are soft head coverings worn by babies. Todays bonnets are styled similar to bonnets women used to wear in the 1800’s when bonnets were fabricated from several layers of fabric by women on isolated prairie farms using available material.

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Here is a chart showing the sizes available from Bumba Bella

Size	Description	Length (inches)	Length (cm)	Blocking length (inches)	Blocking length (cm)
Extra extra small	Preemie	7	18	10	25
Extra small	New born	7 ½	19	10 ½	27
Small	6 months	8	20	11	28
Medium	12 months	8 ½	22	11 ½	29
Large	18 months	9	23	12	30
Extra large	2 Toddler	9 ½	24	12 ½	32
Extra extra large	3 Toddler	10	25	13	33

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Drawn Work Lace Dresses

Drawn-work Lace is painstakingly made by carefully removing, by hand, some threads from the fabric and then embroidering with other threads to form a lace like fabric.

It is strikingly beautiful. The image to the right shows one of the steps in making drawn-work lace using 1/16 gingham fabric.

Pulled-thread work and withdrawn work are synonyms. Gingham fabric is especially suitable for pulled-thread or withdrawn work because this fabric is evenly woven. That is, gingham has the same number of threads per inch in warp and weft. In addition, the weave of gingham fabric is slightly open; too closely woven a weave will cause the fabric to pucker when embroidered. Gingham weave, also, is not too open. The more open the weave the easier the threads can be displaced when the garment is laundered affecting the quality of the item.

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Christmas Garments

December 25^th has been selected as THE Christmas holiday in many nations around the world including the USA.
The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the nativity in combination with the Feast of Epiphany on January 6^th.
Most Armenian churches use the Gregorian calendar and some use the Julian calendar and thus celebrate Christmas Day on January 19^th.
Some Eastern Orthodox national churches, including those of Russia, Egypt, Georgia, Ukraine, the Macedonia, Serbia and the Greek Patriarchate of Jerusalem celebrate Christmas on January 7^th, as these churches follow the Julian Calendar.

Christmas is not a formal public holiday in Japan, the People’s Republic of China, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Algeria, Nepal, Turkey, Iran, or North Korea.

Some countries do not celebrate an official Christmas holiday. These countries include those predominantly Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, and some Asian countries.

Santa Claus, Father Christmas, and Saint Nicholas (St. Nikolaus), are popular figures in many countries. These figures are associated with the bringing of gifts for children.

Although, throughout the holiday's history, Christmas has been the subject of both controversy and criticism from a wide variety of different sources, the Christmas holiday is typically the largest annual economic event and a key sales period for retailers and businesses. Sales increase dramatically, due mainly to the traditions of having a Christmas family meal, gift-exchange, Christmas stockings, decorations, Christmas lights, Christmas ornaments, Christmas trees, Christmas music, Christmas stamps, Christmas cards, and other activities.

With many events, family gatherings and church services held during the Christmas holiday season, it is almost certain that many families will attend a Christmas event that requires its youngest members to dress up.

One thing to keep in mind when buying Christmas garments is to go for outfits in bright colors such as red or green or enhanced with red and green. Red and green are the colors of the Christmas holiday season although many solid black fabrics, such as velvets, are used in very popular Christmas holiday fashions. In addition other colors such as, gold and deep blue that makes beautiful holiday garments.

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The dress arrived and it is absolutely beautiful! Thank you for everything - my daughter's communion dress is just perfect! You've given me a dress to pass on to both of my girls and then to pass on to their daughters. It will never go out of style - it looks exactly like the dress I wore 30 years ago!

The dress arrived and is BEAUTIFUL. Thank you for your outstanding service!

Just to let you know the dress arrived yesterday afternoon and it is absolutely beautiful!
Thank you so much.

Each 'Smocked Dress by BumbaBella' is a new Hand Smocked Dress, made in USA by Naturalized US citizens. We are legal emigrants to the USA, from Colombia, and proud of both our adopted country and the heritage we bring with us from our land of birth. We learned our seamstress skills in our land of birth and improved upon those skills here in the USA.

The gown fits great! Here are some pictures.

I received the dress today and it is better than I ever imagined. Thank you so much for making this vision of mine so perfect.

We make sure that EACH dress meets the following high quality standard:

Every dress MUST to be good enough for OUR grandchildren to wear PROUDLY to church on Easter Sunday.

Our dresses will NEVER be the cheapest dresses you can find. In fact, our dresses are NEVER cheap.
Our dresses are not the most expensive dresses in the world, you can find more expensive dresses.
In fact some KITS for do-it-yourself smocked dresses cost more than our dresses.

While a dress that YOU make may be more special, our dresses are, we believe, the BEST VALUE available anywhere.

Each dress we make is unique, carefully cut and sewn, pleated, hand smocked and good enough for our own children and grandchildren to wear and to treasure when they grow up.

We would be pleased if your children treasured one of our dresses.

Thank you so very much, Bumba Bella, for going over and beyond for me. The dress is gorgeous. It arrived today.
God Bless you,

The dress fits beautifully!
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Made-to-order custom made dresses

If you like our dresses and have something particular in mind, a different color, a different size or a special request, we will be pleased to make a hand smocked dress for you for our normal price plus any additional fully discussed costs for specialty fabrics or yarns required.

Normally, all orders take approximately three (3) weeks.

Bumba Bella accepts rush orders to be made within seven (7) days [exclusive of shipping delays] for an additional cost of 20%.

Enhance your selection with a monogram

A monogram is made from a person initials. Often a monogram consists of three (3) letters however; two (2) letters monograms are also used frequently.

When doing monogramming, there is no right or wrong order to the monogram's initials.

The most common order for a single lady is her first initial followed by the last initial and then the middle initial. Men most commonly request a straight monogram in the same order as in their name. However, a monogram in the order of first, last, middle is very common also.

Embroidery is the stitching. The monogram is embroidered. A complete name can be embroidered.

After you choose the font and style, Bumba Bella will contact you before embroidering or monogramming your item to allow you to know how the monogram or name will look before it is stitched. We do all monogramming and embroidering in house.

Most of our items are machine washable. However, many embroidered items, such as those done using metallic threads should be dry cleaning.

Bumba Bella recommends that when machine washing embroidered items, they be washed inside out on a gently cycle. Embroidered items should not be bleached. Bumba Bella is not responsible for damages occurring by misuse, normal wear or cleaning.

Personalized items cannot be returned except in the case of an error on the part of Bumba Bella or if you receive defective goods. Please be sure to double check spelling before placing your order.