Hats!
I have a bit of a fixation with hats. I love them; I love trying them on. I like the way I look in them. But I don't often actually wear them in real life. Last summer I found a very nice hat store while on a short holiday with Mavis in Niagara on the Lake, and of course I bought a pricey hat. We found ourselves back in this store again this year and promised myself I wouldn't buy another one, although I was very tempted! Then I saw this; fabric hats! So of course you know where my mind went from there... The apple doesn't fall far from the tree! Off to google I went in search of a pattern. I came across this free one from Martha Stewart , and figured she would know all about hats, right? Well she may know hats but I found the pattern to be poorly drafted. The brim didn't match up with the crown. I forced it to fit but I wasn't happy with it at all and I ripped it apart to start over. I redrafted the ...