Grandfather's Journal, page 57: "While the girls and younger women often wore hats to Sunday meeting almost all women and girls wore bonnets - specially in summer - and prided themselves on their ability to cut out from the cloth and make their bonnets - from the common everyday slat bonnet to the nicest quilted pattern for Sunday wear - and do them up, too - along with other items which had to be starched and ironed. Made their own starch from potatoes and used about an eight pound iron which was heated on the open wood fire. Those old irons had iron handles which got hot, too, and a heavy cloth was used to prevent burning the user's hand - until a detachable handle was invented - that was something!" Kay