Rita Hat
October 25, 2009
I found this hat online which would fun to duplicate or at least make a version of it. It appears to me it is made from tightly knitted, single ply, cashmere and has a stretchy characteristic that hugs the head nicely.It can be very windy where I live, thus hats must fit with a certain amount of hug ability or I will be chasing the hat down the icy, snowy street. I can easily design a forerunner from a recycled cashmere sweater. I intend to scrounge thrift stores for a discarded sweater pullover to use a prototype. The hat just looks like an elongated stocking hat shape with pin tucks; it looks somewhat droopy in the back so I am excited to experiment with the draping. .I welcome any ideas.
I think a felted hat would have as much give but I am unsure if it would drape as nicely as this example.
Rita hat
