At any rate, I first sketched out a little pattern piece to make sure the pieces would all be even, note the lighter inner lines as a rough idea of seam allowances.
Then I made a mock up out of some felt I had laying around, to check for fit and everything. All seemed to be fine. YAY! Yes, it looks funny in this picture, but it really does look fine on a head, so happy with the fit and look, I'm moving forward! (Note that I have not hemed the bottom of the mock up, so the real one will not be as long.)
I then cut out my pieces of the wool. The wool is nothing special, just some remnant we bought from Smoke and Fire out in Waterville, OH (http://www.smoke-fire.com/) on a recent trip out there. It's rather light weight, but being that MOST of the events Randy might wear this cap at won't be terribly cold, I figured this was as good as anything for this simple hat.
This project was actually born out of the recent horrid weather we experienced at Baron Wars (Ft. Meigs, Perrysburg, OH). It was so cold and wet and windy, we were miserable! I figured then that a nice cap, and eventually some nalbound mittens (or maybe just some simple ones sewn out of the same grey wool) would really help to take the chill out of the evenings and at events like Baron Wars.
I'm tablet weaving a quick little trim with the intent to put it on the hat, but that may or may not happen, depending on how I like the colors on it. This is just a 10 card, threaded in pattern, all forward turns. This is 100% wool yarn in the colors orange (sort of burnt) and a sort of "natural" (might have been called linen, can't remember). I very much like the band, but I'm not sure how I'll feel about it on the hat. I think it's likely too thick, at 1 inch wide.
I am going to hand stitch the cap, as it's such a small piece, and I'd like to have some visible stitching, and also be able to tack down the seams on the inside nicely. While I'm not going for any kind of reproduction with this cap, hopefully the finished product will be passable and look vaguely "viking."
I should have the finished product photo up sometime tomorrow or Sunday. Then it'll be on to my embroidery project for the neckline of my gown. While my husband is going Viking, I'm going early Irish from the time period around the founding of Dublin. There is soooo little known about clothing and textiles from that culture and time that most of my garments are based on artwork and primarily the Book of Kells and the Book of Durrow. I've already been chewed out by people who believe that I should just pick another time and place that we actually know something about...but that wouldn't be doing justice to my family history. So, screw them and their naysaying! I have sketched a spiral/circle design to embroider. It's very Irish and is based mostly on a dress fastener I found in a book (Treasures of Irish Art 1500 BC to 1500 AD.) I'll give the specifics on that all later, when I actually put something of that project up here.
I have a natural coloured linen gown that I will be putting the design on, and I had HOPED to work it in wool but not being able to find any at local crafting stores, AND finding that Michaels had moved all of their DMC linen floss to Clarence, I decided instead to scoop that up. As to the historical accuracy of that, I find it likely doubtful? But I don't really know. I know that DMC claims with recent innovations to have created the FIRST EVER linen embroidery floss, which wouldn't lend itself to a long history. However, linen thread does have historic presences so I don't see a reason why someone wouldn't have done some sort of embroidery in linen. Besides, I LOVE the muted natural colors of this thread, and it was on sale. What's not to love, right? RIGHT?
Back me up on this one!
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