koko > wrote in news:ef9m251h9kgprvf9jj7jshghfor31n2re2@
4ax.com:

>
> While I was out getting some tchotchke things for the cottage I saw
> these Beverage Bonnets. I thought I could pass them up but had to go
> back and get them. They are too stinkin' cute. What a great way to
> keep the pesky little insects out of your drinks on the patio.
> http://i41.tinypic.com/2d7j12c.jpg
>
> http://i43.tinypic.com/2wn4vx0.jpg
>

Oh, they're milk jug covers!! These were very common here years ago to keep
the flies out of the milk jug etc. particularly before most homes had
flyscreen etc. Flies are very bad here in summer (hence the "great Aussie
salute" - brushing flies away from your face).

http://www.dhub.org/object/112789,crochet - here you can see a number of
old ones, mostly filet crochet, which are in a collection at the Powerhouse
Museum in Sydney.

There used to be patterns for these in women's magazines. If you crochet,
Koko, you could make your own quite easily and probably more cheaply :-)


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Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Core of my heart, my country! Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine she pays us back threefold.
My Country, Dorothea MacKellar, 1904