Showing posts with label hat wrap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hat wrap. Show all posts

Saturday, January 10, 2009

The uptown, hair friendly, non-toque, thingy

The hoodzie, the hat wrap, the scourge of hat-hair nationwide even. Canada is of course cold in the winter. Our ability to thrive in frosty temperatures is one of our defining features as Canadians. We are a hearty lot of rosy cheeked wood-cutters and snow-sport enthusiasts. We are unfortunately also all afflicted with hat head from October to March. We are forced out of doors into the nasty weather wearing our toques to stay alive (melodramatic music playing ominously in the background). Until now, that is. Now we have the fantastic, hard to name but highly functional hat wrap thingy. It's many features include being both a hat and a scarf simultaneously. INDEED!!

It is a hat that warms your neck and chest! It is a scarf that handily keeps the top of your head warm and dry! When the weather is bad keep the hood up, but when the sun comes out just let it hang down like the hood on your favourite hoodie. You'll never lose another toque. You'll never have to keep your hat on in warm weather again for the shame of revealing your dreaded hat-hair!
Boss Hog is modeling the one we sent to his dad for Christmas. It's wool lined with flannel and I have one just like it. In fact I inflicted these on numerous family members this year in order to discover their actual appeal. So far it is hard to tell if my family members like them or have just been over generous in their support of my craftiness.

Freezer Paper Strikes Again

My dad is crazy for sailing so he is doomed to receive sailing themed gifts forevermore. I was of course pretty out of control making gifts up to the very last minute this Christmas. Then suddenly I realized that my parents were coming up to stay with us two days BEFORE Christmas. For well organized people this may not have resulted in chaos, but for me it was pure panic. I not only had to have his gift ready for Christmas morning but I had to have it ready by the 23rd!! So the lining fabric for this hair-friendly, non-touque, uptown hat wrap was not my first choice. It was way too plain even for a serious minded gentleman of sophisticated tastes (my dad) so I quickly cut out a freezer paper stencil in the rough approximation of a sail boat. Voila. Customized in ten minutes. I love you freezer paper.