Hatty Round of Links: Knitscene Tulip Slouch Hat, How to Spot Clean a Hat, Free Patterns

Tulip Slouch Hat, Knitscene, Spring 2012

A new round-up of links...mostly hat-related because what's on the head is most fun!

• A free hat pattern download over at Dress a Day. If the 1940s are your vibe, have at it. 
• How to spot clean a felt hat? Check this tip out.
• Another free hat pattern of the toddler, knitting variety. Fair Isle too!
• For random hats that need to be turned into light fixtures
• A woman of many hats (and great make-up and photo styling too)

That's all for now.

Hatty New 2012: A Round-Up of Millinery-Related Links...Albert Swanpoel for Target

From Cozy Winter Knits

Resolve to wear more hats, not just ones that keep you warm, in the New Year? Look at these links for inspiration:

• This Sally Milgrim hat from the 1940s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• A great way to hang hats...and hats as wall art
• Shades of the 1960s - McCall's 6450 hat and glove pattern
• Four royal toppers
• Finally, delightful bold hats for Target from Albert Swanpoel; he takes his cue from the 1970s

Hatty Holidays LInk Round Up - Vogue Knitting Turban,

Vogue Knitting, Vintage Chic, Turban, Designed  by Lola Ehrlich

Vintage Chic, Vogue Knitting 2011/2012 Fashion Preview

A random list of cool hats, casual, fun or classy:

• You've seen Chanel bags, how about a Chanel knit hat? Simple, no chains to weight it down.
• The turban is back....classy or just a microwaved leftover? With or without hair. The Vogue Knitting models (above) show plenty of lush,  long, wavy longs. They're just missing gloves, a cordette clutch, and a cigarette holder...otherwise, they look like 1940s starlets. Any ideas on the yarn used? Vogue Knitting won't tell...yet. Can I just contrast it to this actual 1940s jersey turban? Which would took chutzpah to wear? Vogue's patterns or the jersey one? A cocktail will help the chutzpah part, I promise.
• Judith M Millinery has a 20 percent off coupon good through the end of January. She has amazing hat-making notions that you can't even find in New York City's Fashion District (sadly...).
• What's a cute rain hat without a matching umbrella? Here's a how-to using oilcloth...which I think would a little bit stiff. Ripstop or a thinner water-repellant fabric would be a better choice. Still a great way to salvage a frame.
•  Thinking of last minute gifts? Have needles, will travel to nearest yarn store? Here's a round-up of last-minute hats to make on the double.

Linky Wednesday - Free embroidery tutorial, Knit Handy iPhone/iPad app

Beret designed by Angela Combest of Fleur de Fiber Yarns

Rhinestone detail, Angela Combest beret

Side view, Angela Combest beret. Yarn: Acadian Two-Wheeler, also available at Windy Knitty

Here's a round-up of mostly hat-related links this week:

• Here's a great interview of a Vogue Knitting hat designer Deborah Newton, who doesn't mind when readers call her designs ugly. Interesting!
• Gosh. This special edition Interweave Knits Accessories, 2011, is practically a book with more than 40 patterns, and tons of hats! I've already taken a look,  it's a great value at $14.99 and if you buy it before the end of the year at a local yarn shop, you get a rebate from Interweave.
• Also from Interweave is the Knit Handy app by Ann Budd. I've downloaded it, and it's a great tool (along with my app Yarn U, of course).
• Details matter. I love this French knot tutorial for 3-d hydrangeas, great for embellishing just about any hat, woven or knit.
• Finally, eye candy at this Australian vintage shop, l'uccello. Buttons, vintage ribbons galore!

Hatty Holidays, Linky Tuesday - Yarn v2.0 for iPhone/iPad Lives!

Gone with the Wind Hat, Windy Knitty, Chicago

Hat knitted with Schulana Malawi yarn (now discontinued)

Leftover Malawi used to make Lacy Collar Designed by Claire Montgomerie

 

 

I made a second version of the Lacy Collar by Claire Montgomerie from the book Knitting Vintage. This collar is most addictive, and easily knit in sections. This one came out bigger than the first one even though it was DK weight just like the Classic Elite version and I used the same circular needles. Anyhow, here in no particular order some great links for this week. Most are hat-related, some aren't.

• Yarn U v2.0 is now live with 260 yarns, 2,000+ yarns. 
• The scoop on the plush top hat. A little history.
• By way of the Shop the District blog: "This Took Forever" labels...perfect for the hand-knit beret that was frogged multiple times and is likely to be lost after being worn once.
• New hats over at Hats Plus. Check out no. 1 and this refined Borsalino.
• Simplicity 1959 ...I don't usually like fleece hats, but view A is darling. 

That's it for now. Happy hat-making!

Hatty Thanksgiving - a Round of Links - Quince & Co.

Milliner Joy Scott models her work at the Curly Tale Fine Art Gallery, Chicago

Scott used a multi-colored sinamay from London for her cocktail hat

Scott embellished her hat with a miniature paper umbrella. Brilliant!

Here's a list of links...

• Can't decide if this hat is 1920s or 1930s? It must have been crocheted on a small hook using gim perhaps. The small palettes are tantalizing.
• The dolan beret pattern at Quince & Co. Need to support Maine and independent designers!
• Support urban knitting! Another beautiful beret pattern over here at Knit Picks.
• Quick, dirty and local. Make a feathered hatband in this class in Evanston, Ill.
• Former Chicagoan Midori Mame Tajiri was crowned the Queen of the St. Catherine's Day hat parade in New Orleans and will be the Grand Marshall next year!

The Tyrorean Hat Goes to "Hats...Art for Your Head!"

Scarf? A Missoni-like fabric still at Vogue Fabrics, Evanston

Purchased at Silver Moon, when it was located on Halsted Street, Chicago

Modeled at Windy Knitty, Chicago

The tyrolean hat is often mistaken for another style. Some admirers think it's a fedora or a porkpie. But it's neither. It's a tyrolean style hat, when all things alpine were popular in the U.S. in the late 1930s. There were tyrolean jackets, suits, sweaters...and then hats. Mine is a thin black felt embellished with  what looks like matching horsehair on top. It's a clever embellishment, very subtle: the felt and the horsehair are swirled together and cut at an angle (difficult to see here, but I do have a close-up somewhere). If I had that time machine that so many DIY bloggers talk about,  I'd return and get this hat in a kelly green and fuschia. I get so many compliments on this simple hat I really do wish I could replicate it easily. But I'd at least need a hat block...and the crown vaguely looks like a Civil War soldier's hat, but the brim is short and sweet, typical for the Depression. I imagine this hat was very versatile during that time...perfect to wear with a suit or a princess-style black coat. 

I hope to never wear this hat out it's so sweet. In any event, it's going on an adventure tonight at "Hats...Art for Your Head!"