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Dockenbaretten (notched barett) progress
I've been working on my prototype for the Dockenbaretten (notched barett) aka "The Starfish" hat, and various other names for the last few days. Since its usually in 30 min segments after the baby goes to bed for the night, it takes a bit longer to make progress than I'd like.
For my hat prototypes I like to use craft felt, nice cheap and is a good substitute for the felted wool or wool melton that I'll use for the finished hat. I can make mistakes and not think of all the money I just wasted too!
Progress so far has been creating a square topped crown with the four seams that are commonly seen with this style, with nice rounded corners, not points. The head hole is an oval, set on the diagonal, so the front and back of the head oval are oriented to the points of the square (I'll post pictures of this later).
I then sewed on the straight parts for the crown, and cut the slashes that open into the notches too deep and in the wrong spots too. gack! Even sewing the edges of the square on the fold to the brim didn't fix the problem but it does start to give the look I'm going for. So I'll rip it off and sew new brim pieces and then re-attach them to the crown, after I tack the edge of the crown to the brim, then slash.
For my hat prototypes I like to use craft felt, nice cheap and is a good substitute for the felted wool or wool melton that I'll use for the finished hat. I can make mistakes and not think of all the money I just wasted too!
Progress so far has been creating a square topped crown with the four seams that are commonly seen with this style, with nice rounded corners, not points. The head hole is an oval, set on the diagonal, so the front and back of the head oval are oriented to the points of the square (I'll post pictures of this later).
I then sewed on the straight parts for the crown, and cut the slashes that open into the notches too deep and in the wrong spots too. gack! Even sewing the edges of the square on the fold to the brim didn't fix the problem but it does start to give the look I'm going for. So I'll rip it off and sew new brim pieces and then re-attach them to the crown, after I tack the edge of the crown to the brim, then slash.