Too funny!

That is funny!

Hesira

Mystified >

> I just can't see wearing one, but what a hoot!

No!!!! That is almost the right shape for a back country hat!

You just never tried putting a *cold* nylon parka hood on a bald head! The long back protects the neck and keeps warm air from escaping out of your parka.

The hot color helps keep you warm, or at least helps you find it in the cold, gray dawn.

The only thing is that they need strings to tie under the chin so they do not fall off when you are skiing. And, it needs a little bill across the brow. I'm still working on how to knit a good bill. The bill needs to be soft enough to roll up and put in your pocket, but stiff enough to keep the snow out of your eyes.

Aaron

On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:46:34 GMT, snipped-for-privacy@sbcglobal.net spun a fine yarn

S K I I N G is a cuss/swear word to THIS particular transplanted northerner/midwesterner, LOL! The only WHITE Christmas's I want are white sandy beaches! Noreen

Someday you will be sitting at Christmas dinner and some 20's something cute guy (a grand nephew?) will be bragging about how he crashed and froze as he was skiing (or boarding) the direct route down "Vertical Death." And, you will know how to knit him a hat to keep his poor balding head warm the next time. Thereby, avoiding hearing a worse story next year, because he has gotten balder! If you knit it in a bright enough color, Warren Miller may take notice, and put it in his annual movie of wild snow sports!

Aaron

No snow? No white Christmas?

Although I think I could get with the white sandy beach thing...

My ideal year would consist of one month of winter (with at least one big snow), 2 months of spring and fall, and the rest summer.

Funny, I don't seem to get that here in Ohio though....

BB

*I* don't miss it a bit. I revel in the fact that I can do all my Christmas shopping riding from store to store in the convertible with the top down and not have to fight with coats and hats and boots and tracking snow in and all of that other stuff that snow and winter brings about.

I even enjoy the dark complected Santas who say 'An' whut you wan' for Christmas, little bra? Trucks and da kine?'

Tracey

Well, when you put it that way....I can see your point :)

BB

Funny, I thought that Ohio was having a fine warm summer : ) with more to come! Heck, I thought you might be getting enough summer to last the rest of the year.

Aaron

I could go for that since I live in Manitoba and summer is around 2 months long. ;>( However, I saw some pretty huge cockroaches while vacationing on Maui a few years ago. I guess it doesn't matter where you live, there is always something to contend with.

But, I do like the idea of Christmas shopping in my shorts and flip-flops. (grin)

Shelagh

It's da bomb, sistah girl!

Tracey

The Renaissance hat brims were double layered and thickly fulled, almost but not quite felted. They were usually knitted in place, but they could be made separately and sewn on. Often they were two separate "bills", which overlapped at the ends.

=Tamar

You haven't seen roaches until you've lived in Texas! Mine rearrange the furniture at night!

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:58:35 GMT, Mystified One spun a fine yarn

OMGosh, YES, I remember that about Texas, and even the HOSPITALS have them! Noreen

OMG, pardon me while I gag......... the ones on Maui made my skin crawl.

Shelagh

vacationing on

Yes! Yes! Now if you have a pattern for such hats?

I made some prototypes. My lack of know-how resulted in catastrophic hat failure. I think those guys that made Renaissance hat brims had some practice. Those old guys were knew their materials!

Improvements for next prototype include: 1) to knit more tightly; &, 2) to knit two layers and cheat by machine stitching them together. : )

Aaron

IIRC one of the ones in the NY Metropolitan Museum has a layer of felt between the two knitted layers, which are hitched together with a three-needle bindoff.

They used all methods, as far as I know: cast on at the outer edge and knit inward with decreases to shape, cast on at the inner edge and make increases outward to shape, pick up stitches for the second layer or knit separately and sew together.

Patterns: look for tam-o-shanter hats, or Scottish berets, for the flat circles. Modern ones have a simple edge rather than a brim, but the old ones had another partial layer of flat circle, so the underside of the beret might give you the method.

I don't have a pattern handy, but I don't know what size you're making anyway. The brim would have to be knitted to fit. If a beret pattern doesn't help, since it is essentially part of a circle, maybe a round doily or pi-shawl pattern would give you the rate of increase. For the width of a fairly narrow hatbrim, I vaguely recall only one or two increases. For a longer bill, you may want to leave a slot to insert a lengthwise plastic stick like the old collar stiffeners; the hat will still roll sideways around the stick.

=Tamar

Eeewwww!!!

Higs, Katherine