Knitted & Felted Glengarry bonnet

[usonian]

My first attempt at a custom knitting pattern. The band starts from the Balmoral pattern I've been using, by Anne Carrol Gilmour. The rest I came up with on my own. I'm pretty pleased with the results. Next time around I'm going to make the top panel about 10 rows longer in the middle, and use stockinette stitch instead of garter stitch; this time it shrank a little more than I expected lengthwise, and pulled the rest of the hat with it, which you can kind of see in the side view below. I think it would be preferable for the slight curve to go the other way.

The band is petersham ribbon, the cockade is 2.25" grosgrain.

I have an enormous head, and the proportions look a little bit small in the profile view... but I think that's just the way the hat fits me, not the hat itself. I need to have some smaller-headed friends try it on.


Snowstorm Glengarry - 9 by Usonian, on Flickr


Snowstorm Glengarry - 8 by Usonian, on Flickr


Snowstorm Glengarry - 7 by Usonian, on Flickr


Snowstorm Glengarry - 5 by Usonian, on Flickr


Snowstorm Glengarry - 1 by Usonian, on Flickr


Snowstorm Glengarry - 2 by Usonian, on Flickr