Tuesday, December 29, 2009

A rainhat for my mommy

Last week was a rush of finishing gifts, and trying to wrap up some work projects before the end of the year. I was successful at the gift finishing... the work projects, not so much. At least I'll have something to do in January when I go back!

Have you ever bought an album for one song? Well, I bought this book for one hat, and it turns out the pattern wasn't in the book!

That said, it's a fun book even if some of the hat instructions are, "buy a hat, put a ribbon on it like this."

The last time I was home, my mother who is of a certain age pulled out a little rain bonnet to cover her hair in the rain. I understand wanting to look a little older than you are (people always think I'm at least 5 years younger than I really am) but this is too much! A cute rainhat was in order.

I had some rainwear microfiber left over from an attempt at making a raincoat (funny I didn't have that on my list of no-sew, because I have no plans to ever sew any rubberized fabric after this! The hat went together very quickly. I used a microtex needle and lined it with a lightweight stretch cotton from my stash. There was a slight smell of burnt rubber when I was done -- all finished in less than 2 hours!






For the record, I have a small head, as does my mom.

3 comments:

  1. I got this book for Christmas. I was a bit disappointed by the fedora section as well ("materials: a vintage fedora"... ummm?). I'm glad there are some cute actual hat patterns - great job on yours!

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  2. Thanks! I was actually hoping to get the pattern for the equestrian hat (the girl in the horse shirt with the riding crop is wearing it.) Maybe one day after I sew the 6,285 other things on my list I'll see about modifying the baseball cap pattern...

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  3. Nice job on this hat. I've seen this book on Amazon and have thought of buying it many times.

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