#spring hats

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Christian Lacroix spring 1988

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Spring hats

(Nina Leen. 1948)

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Take Hat and Rosettes: Shake

I made this hat out of handspun yarn that I bought off of Etsy with a pattern called Pinch Hat from Cecily Glowick MacDonald which I found in The Best of KnitScene, a book with patterns from the magazine.  You can also find it online at Ravelry.com. KnitScene is the younger sibling of Interweave Knitting which often features simpler patterns that a new knitter can take on. This is a super simple hat that you knit flat and then sew together with the ends of the yarn, so perfect for someone like me who is new to knitting but very comfortable with sewing by hand.

The pinched part calls out for some kind of adornment. The book uses a jewel, Ravelry photos added buttons and bows, but with such a rustic yarn, I thought more yarn would do the trick. So, I knitted rosettes from the yarn left from my Hello, Sunshine Scarf. These are also very simple, just a length of garter stitch a few rows deep that you can roll up and sew. I made them with 2 rows, with 3 rows, and in different lengths, and then I played with them, to see what I liked.

I used what is called a doll’s head and used in millinery. I like the name because it is kind of a doll and I play with it. They come in head sizes, are stuffed with sawdust and can be pinned into, so you can try out different configurations. Then you pull out those pins after more pinning only to the hat itself, so you can sew the ornaments permanently. I left on the yarn ends on the rosettes when I realized I could use them to sew the rosettes to the hat.

While the doll’s head is useful, trying your design on the human who will wear the hat is essential. You may discover that your proportions are off, or some other element of design is wrong, and you need to tweak what you made up on the doll’s head.

You can find Ravelry here: https://www.ravelry.com/

You can find Etsy here to look for handspun yarn: https://www.etsy.com/?ref=lgo

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Happy Easter...choose your bonnet!

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Spring at Last, or the Flowered Blue Hat of 1912

If you live up north, you may only have some daffodils at the moment, but will understand the perennial appeal of the flowered hat. This one is from Ladies Home Journal from March of 1912 and decorated with two colors of cowslips plus what they call “a full rosette of panne velvet.” Manipulated velvet, whether gathered along one edge and curled as here or looped or bowed, offers the intriguing play of colors which velvet’s plushness gives.

The shape of this hat is what they called a “a tailor-suit hat” meaning to be worn with a suit as it is not too big as to tend towards playfulness. Notice her suit of blue grey worn with a higher collar, a little bow tie and some flounces to boot. Yes, this was the kind of suit women wore into office work or shopping in the city. Although all those flowers certainly keep the hat from being utterly serious, but then she would take it off when she sat down at her typewriter.  

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A Bouquet For Spring, a Fifties Hat This small hat in dark rosy velvet is part of the Kansas State University costume collection that I was shown by Marla Day, curator of the collection. Small hats need to be held on somehow, and you can see in the top photo the two small combs on either side of the hat that would be turned and pushed into the hair. There were a great variety of small hats in the 1950s, some held on with combs, and others edged with wire so they could grip on each side of the head with pressure This one has a small, but lush bouquet of roses and violets including their long green stems. A cheerful way to greet spring. It may have been worn with a suit or with an afternoon dress. Either way, worn for a social event rather than something serious like office work. Unless you were a pretty playful worker.

For more on the Department of Apparel, Textiles, and Interior Design in the College of Human Ecology at K-State, go here: http://www.he.k-state.edu/atid/

For more on Historic Costume and Textile Museum whose curator is Marla Day:

http://www.he.k-state.edu/hctm/about/

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