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Serenity said:
No explanation from me. I just lengthen every hat I knit.
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Well, many hats are mere fashion statements, but I agree that a winter hat should keep the ears warm as well as the head. I seldom need a hat, still got a thick head of hair, and I have never worn a hat for fashion’s sake. My favourite hat, if I need one, is the chill chaser hat, which has an attached neck piece. Easy, quick knit.
 
#22 ·
Just looked up chill chaser hat and not one of them is the one I use. Think mine is an ancient Paton’s pattern, basically a neck warmer attached to a beanie. Gave the pattern book away as I do the hat from memory now.
 
#23 ·
ade said:
Just looked up chill chaser hat and not one of them is the one I use. Think mine is an ancient Paton’s pattern, basically a neck warmer attached to a beanie. Gave the pattern book away as I do the hat from memory now.
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I didn’t have a pattern, just a lot of small balls of yarn:
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JessicaJean's Can't lose them!

Years ago, chasing around the city in winter with two youngsters with winter gear, I was always trying to keep track of three scarves, three toques, and six mittens. Somehow, none got lost and no ...
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I cast on a bunch, picked up some, and cast on as many as the bunch.
 
#24 ·
Well, the hat is beautiful and if I were still working and inclined to be fashionable, I would wear it. In fact I have made the hat and have worn it several times but... it does need to be pulled down further to cover the ear lobes and that ruins the look of the hat. I have tried for several years to find a pattern that mimics the cossack hat but keeps my head warm. I have knitted all those on Ravelry and several others but to no avail. I do have my grandfather's hat from the 1920's made of persian lamb (godawful fur to make anything from) but even that doesn't fully cover the ears. I saw a lady last night on the news that had what looked like a mink hat with that wide band of fur. In my old age I am going for comfort over fashion so I will keep wearing the 1898 seaman's hat and some cloches I have.
 
#26 ·
Jessica-Jean said:
For winter, I swap out my dingly, snaggy earrings for small, simple, non-snaggy hoops.
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I don't wear earrings at all. My ears aren't pierced. I used to wear screw backs when I was working and had to look "just so" with customers coming in to the place or having to travel. Never felt comfortable with them. I'll take warm ears over fancy ears any day.
 
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knitwitty said:
Well, the hat is beautiful and if I were still working and inclined to be fashionable, I would wear it. In fact I have made the hat and have worn it several times but... it does need to be pulled down further to cover the ear lobes and that ruins the look of the hat. I have tried for several years to find a pattern that mimics the cossack hat but keeps my head warm. I have knitted all those on Ravelry and several others but to no avail. I do have my grandfather's hat from the 1920's made of persian lamb (godawful fur to make anything from) but even that doesn't fully cover the ears. I saw a lady last night on the news that had what looked like a mink hat with that wide band of fur. In my old age I am going for comfort over fashion so I will keep wearing the 1898 seaman's hat and some cloches I have.
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Why do you say that about Persian lamb fur?
 
#29 ·
Jessica-Jean said:
Why do you say that about Persian lamb fur?
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Because I was told that persian lamb was made from the fur of unborn lambs, they had to kill the mother and the unborn in order to harvest the fur. Since I heard that as a teenager, I have not been able to bring myself to wear it. I also have a cashmere coat of his with that kind of collar but I removed the collar and when it gets really cold I do wear the dress coat - and wonder of wonders, one of my sons wants the coat so next time he comes for a visit , he'll be taking that home with him.
 
#30 ·
knitwitty said:
Because I was told that persian lamb was made from the fur of unborn lambs, they had to kill the mother and the unborn in order to harvest the fur. Since I heard that as a teenager, I have not been able to bring myself to wear it. I also have a cashmere coat of his with that kind of collar but I removed the collar and when it gets really cold I do wear the dress coat - and wonder of wonders, one of my sons wants the coat so next time he comes for a visit , he'll be taking that home with him.
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Farmers, including shepherds, raise crops (including animals) in order to harvest. We city-dwellers mayn’t like to know the details of how the things we buy made it from field to house. It’s a personal choice.

At age 12, one of my sisters read in Consumer Reports about the production of hotdogs. She hasn’t eaten one since. She urged me (11 years her senior) to read the article. I refused; I still enjoy eating hotdogs fifty-odd years later. It’s all in choices we make.
 
#31 ·
Jessica-Jean said:
Farmers, including shepherds, raise crops (including animals) in order to harvest. We city-dwellers mayn’t like to know the details of how the things we buy made it from field to house. It’s a personal choice.

At age 12, one of my sisters read in Consumer Reports about the production of hotdogs. She hasn’t eaten one since. She urged me (11 years her senior) to read the article. I refused; I still enjoy eating hotdogs fifty-odd years later. It’s all in choices we make.
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Well, you are sooo... right! At the time, that thought was so abhorrent to me I couldn't fathom anyone wearing any fur that had been taken like that... and this from a young girl that had been raised on a farm, killed both chickens and pigs before I was ten years old and hunted deer and birds with my dad and uncles. I have owned and worn fur coats and that never bothered me. I don't even know if it is true but that is what I was told by an aunt and it just hit me as wrong and I haven't gotten over that thought, and I am 76. Pictures of Cossacks wearing the hat show the earlobes being exposed.

Didn't have to read the article in CR about hot dogs as my father had explained that to me, it never put me off eating hotdogs either.
 
#33 ·
knitwitty said:
Well, you are sooo... right! At the time, that thought was so abhorrent to me I couldn't fathom anyone wearing any fur that had been taken like that... and this from a young girl that had been raised on a farm, killed both chickens and pigs before I was ten years old and hunted deer and birds with my dad and uncles. I have owned and worn fur coats and that never bothered me. I don't even know if it is true but that is what I was told by an aunt and it just hit me as wrong and I haven't gotten over that thought, and I am 76. Pictures of Cossacks wearing the hat show the earlobes being exposed.

Didn't have to read the article in CR about hot dogs as my father had explained that to me, it never put me off eating hotdogs either.
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The first off-putting thing I remember was the lettering embossed on the interior of a wallet: Unborn Calfskin.

Thinking about things today - with all the emphasis on ‘green’, ‘sustainable’, and ‘eco-friendly’ - it seems to me, that natural leather products are a better choice than the looks-like-leather petroleum-based offerings. Don’t even whisper that blasphemy near a member of PETA though!
 
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