Then, there was a hat
Yes, back to adventures in the Land of Millinery. We're giving it one. More. Try. I'm trying something simpler this time and I'm notnotnot going to make alterations in situ, which is killing me. I want the brim to be smaller - but I will not do that. I will be good. I will be good. I will not make alterations to the hat pattern.
::sigh:: So, I'm hoping that since the plastic canvas thing never worked out for these hats that the Timtex stuff will. I got the idea from
laurensa, and it seems quite a solid and workable buckram substitute. Gonna try it, and if it doesn't turn out, I can always just turn out flat caps. Dammit. I want a spiff tall hat, since the brown one is both rather not period and showing wear, anyway, and I do NOT want to pay $150 dollars for it. Maybe if I figure out why these aren't turning out, I can go to that lovely Lynn McMasters arched brim tall hat.
All right. Off to cut out pattern pieces - before I started typing last night I did manage to figure a brim size that seems to fit well. We'll see. See, in margo's patterns there's only s-m-l sizing, not sizing such as 6 7/8, which is my actual hat size. This is a tad frustrating for me, because I want it to fit correctly, not merely be close.
There are things that it's okay to be anal-retentive about, folks. How your clothes fit is one of them, when you have the means and ability to get it right.
But I find that does little to reduce my frustration. Of course, more than five or six hours of sleep las tnight would've helped with that.
::sigh:: So, I'm hoping that since the plastic canvas thing never worked out for these hats that the Timtex stuff will. I got the idea from
laurensa, and it seems quite a solid and workable buckram substitute. Gonna try it, and if it doesn't turn out, I can always just turn out flat caps. Dammit. I want a spiff tall hat, since the brown one is both rather not period and showing wear, anyway, and I do NOT want to pay $150 dollars for it. Maybe if I figure out why these aren't turning out, I can go to that lovely Lynn McMasters arched brim tall hat. All right. Off to cut out pattern pieces - before I started typing last night I did manage to figure a brim size that seems to fit well. We'll see. See, in margo's patterns there's only s-m-l sizing, not sizing such as 6 7/8, which is my actual hat size. This is a tad frustrating for me, because I want it to fit correctly, not merely be close.
There are things that it's okay to be anal-retentive about, folks. How your clothes fit is one of them, when you have the means and ability to get it right.
But I find that does little to reduce my frustration. Of course, more than five or six hours of sleep las tnight would've helped with that.
