Here are a couple of ways to wear a slouch hat. First, place it on your head so that it covers most of your forehead but stays above your eyebrows. The bottom of the hat should just skim the bottom of your earlobes. Tease the back horizontally to spread out the slouch. This style is …
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Not Your Granny’s Afghan
Granny squares were one of the first things I crocheted as a child. After making afghans, skirts, sweaters and vests, I started creating multi-coloured granny square hats using leftover lengths of wool. Now, I’ve decided to revisit that hat. My first two have a floral motif and are in shades of green, nature’s neutral. I …
Athletic Headbands
An athletic headband keeps the sweat from rolling from your forehead onto your face and into your eyes while you are exercising. Steve, physical fitness trainer at DoStrength Gym, is wearing one that I made of white and black cotton spandex. Often used as rib banding on track suits, this medium-weight fabric has crosswise and …
Stocking Cap
My latest sewn hat is a stocking cap with a roll-up cuff. Some define a stocking cap as a head-hugging knit cap with a long tail. Others equate the stocking cap with a beanie, the only difference being that a stocking cap might sport a tassel or pom pom. A nylon stocking cap or wig …
Crochet Hats in Progress
Embarking on a new crochet hat project is fun. Duplicating or tweaking the same hat pattern continues the adventure. Colour is an obvious way to change the look, as is the choice of yarn. Different yarns give hats different drape and structure. In the hats pictured above, Bluefaced Leicester wool and a wool/silk/cashmere blend were …
The Custom Hat
Bold or subdued? Colourful or neutral? Durable or delicate? When you decide that you would like to have a custom hat tailored and your head size is measured, there are countless fabric choices. After consulting with my customers, I have developed some general guidelines to help select. They fall into three categories that I call …
Crochet Cuties
A sister/brother duo was spotted at a provincial park campground this spring sporting crocheted hats. Like a lot of children, they have been wearing hats and caps since they were babies. This early habit has made consistent hat wearing easy and each child has a selection of many hats. The parents realized the importance of …
Double Duty Hats
This hat was custom sewn for a woman who had been invited to a garden tour in her community. She wanted a hat fitting for the occasion, but that could also do double duty in her own garden. She chose an organic cotton print in green and cream on brown for the eye-catching side of …
Cool Cotton
Like a kid in a candy store, I’m so happy shopping in a fabric store. I love browsing and exploring the array of patterns, materials and notions. Recently I visited a favourite family-run business Gala Fabrics in Victoria, B.C. I was on the hunt for cotton to sew sun-protection hats and I left not disappointed. …
Batik
Batik is the art of decorating fabric—cotton, silk, linen, rayon and hemp—using wax and dyes. The origin of batik is uncertain, but some speculate that it spread from Asia along caravan trading routes over 2,000 years ago. Batik is now found worldwide. The batiks of the pleated skirts of the Miao people tell the history …
Hats by Tracy J 