New Hat

The recent extreme cold weather alert all over Canada has halted some of my ongoing projects for an emergency project: A warm, nice wool hat to go with my green wool coat!! :-)

I have a big noggin so it's difficult to find ready-to-wear hats that fit me. Good thing hats don't use too much fabric and I love making them (and wearing them)! This one is based on McCall 5541 view C (size Large). I used the green wool coating fabric that I used for my winter coat, plus some purple wool coating scraps I have in my stash for the banding. For the lining I used black cotton/poly broadcloth. The design feature I added was a rosette using the same purple wool coating scraps.

The hat is very warm and goes very well with my coat. And it's roomy enough that if I want to pull the hat down to cover both my ears, I can!

Green and purple wool coating hat

I also finally finished an old hat that I was wearing last winter. It's based on Simplicity 5799. It's made with a Red wool coating material (quick thick and stiff). It was very warm and I liked it but it didn't have a lining. I like things to be lined so last night I just quickly made up a lining in the same black broadcloth that I used for the green/purple hat. It's a bit more snug now that the lining is in (probably due to the thick wool coating material too). I like the colour and I have other black winter coats that I can wear this with.

Red wool hat

Comments

[sassy girl]

[this is good] Hey girlfriend! You make hats as well? I love the green and purple hat you made. So cute! I'm a hat girl as well ---- actually I love all accessories: jewelry, shoes, bags, scarves, belts.....everything!

Really enjoy reading your blog. Looking forward to seeing more unique stuff.

[Lovenicky]

Thanks Sassy Girl! I love accessories too. I made a lot of the accessories that I wear: jewelry, bags, scarves. It's too bad I can't make shoes. (hahaha!) I have a few accessories projects on the go right now so stay tuned!