tranum

We always buy new socks & underwear to donate to the Veterans Center before Christmas. I wanted to include red or blue handkerchiefs but they’re hard to find and the quality is like gauze so I know they won’t wash up nicely. I’ve looked at farm stores, hunting stores, hardware stores with no luck. I was told by a clerk that men who work outside use disposables. Yes, road construction workers carry a box of tissues with them ! ! I bought about 2 dozen soft ones at a garage sale for 50 cents so our son got most of those.

Suggestions if I decide to sew up some ? Does not have to be bandana print but I don’t want white.

juliasb

Make them in any fabrics you like. Colorful is something many who are Vets do not have in their lives. I am sure the flashier sometimes the better. Don't only think in solids. Be creative.

I have made them as Christmas gifts for several of the hunters in my family. (and we have quite a few).

osewme

Yes, I've made my husbands for many years now. He like white ones only & wants a very substantial hankie & the best fabric I've found that he likes is the white from Connecting Threads. He does not like the thin, thin ones that are store bought.

Tartan

I made a whole bunch for my mother out of her cotton nighties that we were recycling. A lot of work but they were all nice and soft. I just buy the white men’s handkerchief for the men in my family.

liking quilting

Wal-Mart is where I've purchased hubby's in the past. He likes them! They are the blue paisley type design (and I think I've gotten him some red ones too).

JuneBillie

My daughter in law made some for my son one year, and included them in with my husband's Christmas one year. She made my sons in plaids etc. and my husbands in a good white fabric with his initials on the corner done on her embroidery machine. She always embroiders something on blouses she buys me.

Jingle

My Husband gave up on handkerchiefs years ago and use bounty paper towels. I still use tissues. Both can be tossed after use.

Tothill

I would ask at the VA Centre to find out if the men there would use Hankies. I only know one person in Canada who does and he is almost 91. My family in NZ do use them.

christinelf

I have made my husband a few, using colorful cotton fabric. Many years ago I bought colorful plaid ones from the Lands’ End catalog. Reminds me of a humorous piece I read. Woman washes her husbands clothes and one day sees him use his cloth hankie, then carefully fold and put back in his pocket. She comments that she always figured all folded hankies were clean and didn’t wash them.

sewingsuz

Sorry for this but this is how I feel about this, who want to put those nasty things in the laundry. I never did like the idea unless it is one in the top pocket of a suit coat that matches the tie. I always notice Steve Harveys nice dressed man.