Couples Caps

Thank yew for showing up.

Last weekend I was commissioned to create a ‘couples hat’ and over the years of hat making this has always been a project that’s been on the back of my mind, so I was stoked when this opportunity arose. Better yet, it was ordered by a great fellow from my home town who now lives in the adjacent province of Nova Scotia.

Having chose the ‘Leisure Cap’ style, the client wanted something between a light grey and charcoal, with minimal colour accents that would compliment each partner. The underside of the brims, the back edges and the slide-adjuster of each hat were highlighted using ‘Royal Blue’ and ‘Salmon’. To further the detail, on the top side of the brims the second stitch line was also accented with matching colours, along with criss-crossed eyelet colours.

Check out this series of photos that further augments the stoke:

Interested in a couples hat for yew and your partner?

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Red Baron

As Christmas soon approaches and while the corduroy train’s-a-rollin’, I thought it would esthetically pleasing to make the same build as last week - but in an eye-poppin’ candy apple red.

This project uses a heavyweight cotton/polyester blend; it has great stretch and gives the hat a more form-fitting feel. The corduroy on this is larger due to the thickness of the blend compared to the green corduroy from last week which had more ripples than this given textile.

Each hat is lined with a fusible black mesh inter-facing and paired with red eyelets, red stitching, red cord stopper, and a customized red corduroy sweatband for the bucket hat only.

Introducing Red Baron:

Green Machine

Corduroy, corduroy, corduroy, man do I love working with corduroy - it has everything you want in a fabric. It’s got that classic rippled touch, the mellow parallels, the coarseness of its fibers pops, and is always sure to catch an eye by every passer-by, man. The weight, stretch, and steez makes this textile even more suitable for my hat making quest.

For this project, I went back and fine-tuned my regular templates and hybridized them with some current patterns. Over time I began to notice, and what I don’t want to call ‘flaws’, but imperfections in my original templating. So I took a peep back and just made my templates more sound, more form-fitting designs engineered with the latest technical know-how; because I push myself to continue to create unreal products for my consumers. Push the boundaries bobcat!

‘Art’ is not anything serious or exclusive: it is the smell of oil paint, Henri Murger’s Vie de Boheme, corduroy trousers, the operatic Italian model: but the poetry, above all, of linseed oil and turpentine.

Wyndham Lewis

Introducing the Green Machine, this project contains the new standard builds for the upcoming Yew Year.

Interested how it is all made? Here is a high-speed video of me creating all (3) of these hats!

November Hat Designs

Thank yew for stopping by,

This post sums up what I accomplished over the span of November. This month I forced myself to take some time off hat making and focus my time on other projects to further smooth out the future of this hat making venture.

What can you expect?

• New Hat Layouts (created a light studio to better display my handmade goods)

• Weekly Music Playlists: VOLYEWM, Spotify Playlists that I’ve been creating during my work flow

• Time lapse videos displaying the creative process

• Old Stock gonna be on sale boiiiii

The Hats I did make this month are hella-dope though y’all, check these out:

Columbia Vintage Plaid

Eddie Bauer Vintage Red Longsleeve Button-Up

Stüssy Polka Dots Surf Trunks

Vintage ‘80s Tommy Hilfiger

Vans Cartoon Surf Shirt

Rhythm Mushroom Surf Shirt

Yasaka Vintage Japanese Racketsport