My new tam

**KiltedDixon** · 10th January 11, 05:22 PM

Nice work!

**Old Hippie** · 10th January 11, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by BobsYourUncle

To add to the confusion, I am not sure that Old Hippie's attempt at taxonomy holds any water, with all due respect to Old Hippie, who is a gentleman and a scholar. I've seen many non military tams that have a band below the disk, including at least one of the offerings on the Scottish Tartans Museum web shop...now everyone can start throwing things at me...

Well, I've been accused of many things, but infallibility is not one of them.

To add to the confusion, I was just reading that a tam-o-shanter has a narrow band, while a Balmoral has a wider one. Everyone seems to agree on a beret.

In my collection of berets and other headgear I have a "Rasta Tam" that I've been known to wear on the odd occasion over the years. It's knit in concentric rainbow rings and is more like a beret. I have two military berets and an Abercrombie & Fitch tam-o-shanter in the old style -- knit in a tartan pattern with a toorie the size of a duck egg. And of course a couple of Glengarries now.

Out on the Prairies we wore "Scotch Caps" which are billed hats with earflaps, in either black and green, black and blue or black and red squares. Called so, I supppose, because they have a toorie or because they're patterned in what people call "plaid."

**Eleazar** · 11th January 11, 06:40 AM

Great "tam"! LOL

Nice job. Which tutorials did you use?

**greenfordranger** · 12th January 11, 11:50 PM

Great job! Looks great to me

**bubba295** · 15th January 11, 01:51 PM

OK, I have been threatening to make one of these for a while now, so today while sitting around the house I did. I made it out of a fleece blanket that I had laying around. I had a surprise when I tried to attach the hatband to the bottom of the hat, I still had material left over once I got to the end of the band. So I ripped it apart and made a new bottom piece with a smaller hole cut in it, that allowed for the SA that I didn't account for the first time. Any way, here's a bad webcam photo of the finished product.

**Matt Richards** · 29th January 11, 03:39 PM

Nice! Looks just like an officer's private purchase General Service cap. Finding ever reproduction ones is nearly impossible. I never thought about making one ...

**Hocfutue** · 29th January 11, 04:17 PM

The GS cap is very similar. Main difference is the body of the hat is 3 piece, rather than a "donut."--One large piece (1/2 the body), and two 1/4 body pieces (with seam allowances, of course.)

The interior was lined, with the top lining quilted (not quilted all the way to the crown piece, though.)

Hmm, now I gotta get out my compass and start drafting a GS...