Post by Lady Trapper on Jan 22, 2007 19:36:45 GMT -5
Cut a 2 inch band of cardboard and place it around your head. Mark where it touches and cut off the remainder. Now measure the lenght (Circumference or "C"). Now back to Math 101. Divide by 3.1417 (pi) for the diameter (D) Divide that in half and using that radius, scribe and cut a circle out of cardboard.
Lay your hide out flat, fur down. Fold the head straight up and lay your cardboard circle flat down directly behind the center of the face. With a marking pencil, mark you circle.
Now cut your cardboard band in half. Lay a half on each side of the circle going from head to tail. Mark it. You will not have enough hair up front. Don't worry. Mark your cardboard band exaclty where you run out of fur.
Carefully cut around the coon's face and stop when you hit an intersecting line. Cut the marks on the bands but DO NOT cut them free of the circle.
When you finish, the cap top, coon face, and parts of both bands will be complete. Put you bands on the remaining fur the same way (head to tail) and cut band strips to complete your cardboard pattern. Begin sewing the bands around the circle top and add the extra pieces to complete the hat band making sure that the hair is flowing the same direction as the attached bands were. Sever the tail and sew it up. Once your hat is finished, sew it directly opposite of the coon face.
If you want to line it, you use the same technique. You then fold the coon hair under yet over the lining and sew it down flat.
If you have a head as big as mine, it may be tough to find a single coon big enough for the job. If that's the case, cut the circle and face from one and cut all your bands from another. Remember to check the hair patterns so that the hair is always going from head to tail of the cap.
Lay your hide out flat, fur down. Fold the head straight up and lay your cardboard circle flat down directly behind the center of the face. With a marking pencil, mark you circle.
Now cut your cardboard band in half. Lay a half on each side of the circle going from head to tail. Mark it. You will not have enough hair up front. Don't worry. Mark your cardboard band exaclty where you run out of fur.
Carefully cut around the coon's face and stop when you hit an intersecting line. Cut the marks on the bands but DO NOT cut them free of the circle.
When you finish, the cap top, coon face, and parts of both bands will be complete. Put you bands on the remaining fur the same way (head to tail) and cut band strips to complete your cardboard pattern. Begin sewing the bands around the circle top and add the extra pieces to complete the hat band making sure that the hair is flowing the same direction as the attached bands were. Sever the tail and sew it up. Once your hat is finished, sew it directly opposite of the coon face.
If you want to line it, you use the same technique. You then fold the coon hair under yet over the lining and sew it down flat.
If you have a head as big as mine, it may be tough to find a single coon big enough for the job. If that's the case, cut the circle and face from one and cut all your bands from another. Remember to check the hair patterns so that the hair is always going from head to tail of the cap.