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Hello Robert and welcome to my sewing blog! I think it is great that you made hats for your kids and that you want to make more! Just so you know, I am posting this reply on my own blog and on yours, to cover the bases.
I have a few hat patterns but I wasn't sure what you meant by "Cossack hats" so I went to looking it up on the internet. I love the internet! If all you mean is a tuque with a large folded up brim, then there are patterns aplenty. You only need one basic pattern and you get a lot of variety by using different fabrics. If you mean something more complicated with ear flaps and chin bands, then you will have to go looking but even that can be fun.
I started looking at http://www.simplicity.com/ but didn't see any complex hats there. However, if you go to their search page (http://www.simplicity.com/index.cfm?page=search.cfm) and put in "hats", you can browse until you might find what you want. The first one is 2743 which included a regular tuque with the fold up brim (or at least, that's what it looks like). I saw this one fur hat at http://decapod.home.silentsong.net/hats.html that seemed to fit the bill but the pattern referred to (McCall's 3328) is no longer made by McCall's ( go to http://www.mccall.com/ to see more patterns). When you go to a pattern site, check under "Accessories" for hats. For example, at Butterick (which is now owned by McCall's) this pattern shows a variety of hats not suitable for your purposes: http://www.butterick.com/item/B5111.htm??tab=accessories&page=1
I also Googled "sewing patterns hats faux fur" and "sewing patterns hats faux fur Russian cossack" and got this one site where the hats are already made (http://www.twenga.co.uk/dir-Fashion,Hats-and-hair-accessories,Fur-hats/Colour-Pattern-Orange-2-35951) where they call the trapper hat a cossack hat.
Aside from Googling and buying on the internet, you can go to your local fabric store and browse through the large pattern books and get the staff to show you the actual pattern with the instructions, which may be more helpful. I have always sewed from patterns because it is like cooking from recipes - all the proportions are worked out in advance. Good luck and let me know how it goes. You should blog about the hats, especially as you have not posted anything since May!
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Hello Robert and welcome to my sewing blog! I think it is great that you made hats for your kids and that you want to make more! Just so you know, I am posting this reply on my own blog and on yours, to cover the bases.
I have a few hat patterns but I wasn't sure what you meant by "Cossack hats" so I went to looking it up on the internet. I love the internet! If all you mean is a tuque with a large folded up brim, then there are patterns aplenty. You only need one basic pattern and you get a lot of variety by using different fabrics. If you mean something more complicated with ear flaps and chin bands, then you will have to go looking but even that can be fun.
I started looking at http://www.simplicity.com/ but didn't see any complex hats there. However, if you go to their search page (http://www.simplicity.com/index.cfm?page=search.cfm) and put in "hats", you can browse until you might find what you want. The first one is 2743 which included a regular tuque with the fold up brim (or at least, that's what it looks like).
I saw this one fur hat at http://decapod.home.silentsong.net/hats.html that seemed to fit the bill but the pattern referred to (McCall's 3328) is no longer made by McCall's ( go to http://www.mccall.com/ to see more patterns).
When you go to a pattern site, check under "Accessories" for hats. For example, at Butterick (which is now owned by McCall's) this pattern shows a variety of hats not suitable for your purposes: http://www.butterick.com/item/B5111.htm??tab=accessories&page=1
I also Googled "sewing patterns hats faux fur" and "sewing patterns hats faux fur Russian cossack" and got this one site where the hats are already made (http://www.twenga.co.uk/dir-Fashion,Hats-and-hair-accessories,Fur-hats/Colour-Pattern-Orange-2-35951) where they call the trapper hat a cossack hat.
Aside from Googling and buying on the internet, you can go to your local fabric store and browse through the large pattern books and get the staff to show you the actual pattern with the instructions, which may be more helpful. I have always sewed from patterns because it is like cooking from recipes - all the proportions are worked out in advance. Good luck and let me know how it goes. You should blog about the hats, especially as you have not posted anything since May!
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