ma could make beautiful hats

Ma sewed hats for Mary and Laura of the finest, narrowest braid. For Pa and for herself she made hats of the wider, notched braid. That was Pa's Sunday hat. Then she made him two everyday hats of the coarser, widest braid. -Little House in the Big Woods, Chapter 12, "The Wonderful Machine"

This ornament was originally a doll's hat, which is also Little Housey, since Laura made a straw hat for Charlotte.
- posted by pioneergirl at 6:21 PM