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mandie_rwI should qualify that remark with an explanation - I've realized I am the pickiest person in the world when it comes to 18th century caps that go on my own head. There's really nothing wrong with this cap, but it's not what I wanted.
Obviously the solution to this is to stop following other people's patterns, and take a pattern from the machine sewn CW cap I've had since...2006? There's a reason I never replaced it; I love how it fits!
Anyway, here's the new cap, now let me pick it apart:
(Bad pictures, sorry...but not sorry enough to take them on a real camera!)
You can't really see, but it's made of self-striped linen/cotton (yes, the Joann's White Magnolia stuff!) - I wanted a slightly more substantial cold-weather cap than the other cap I don't like, which was made out of some very lightweight, loose-weave linen. The main thing I dislike about this cap is that it's set so close to the head, there's hardly room for my hair! And I really don't have that much hair. I like a slightly puffier cap and this is decidedly not it. It's made from the La Fleur de Lyse 18thc caps pattern, which is a perfectly nice pattern - if you like your caps set close to the head. The other cap I don't like was also from that pattern, but a different, smaller view...so I think this may be a sign to just stop using this pattern. Duh? It took me a while...
(Naturally, I've got yet another version of their cap lurking somewhere in my UFO bin. Of course I do.)
If I ever manage to think of a reasonably clever name for an Etsy shop, this'll be going in it!
Obviously the solution to this is to stop following other people's patterns, and take a pattern from the machine sewn CW cap I've had since...2006? There's a reason I never replaced it; I love how it fits!
Anyway, here's the new cap, now let me pick it apart:
(Bad pictures, sorry...but not sorry enough to take them on a real camera!)
You can't really see, but it's made of self-striped linen/cotton (yes, the Joann's White Magnolia stuff!) - I wanted a slightly more substantial cold-weather cap than the other cap I don't like, which was made out of some very lightweight, loose-weave linen. The main thing I dislike about this cap is that it's set so close to the head, there's hardly room for my hair! And I really don't have that much hair. I like a slightly puffier cap and this is decidedly not it. It's made from the La Fleur de Lyse 18thc caps pattern, which is a perfectly nice pattern - if you like your caps set close to the head. The other cap I don't like was also from that pattern, but a different, smaller view...so I think this may be a sign to just stop using this pattern. Duh? It took me a while...
(Naturally, I've got yet another version of their cap lurking somewhere in my UFO bin. Of course I do.)
If I ever manage to think of a reasonably clever name for an Etsy shop, this'll be going in it!
