Cast Spells

Thank yew for stopping into the blog zone y’all!

I have a new graphic to share with everyone to cap off the week, I, unfortunately, cannot take full responsibility for this design. A few years back I was coming back from the tail end of a road trip. Had no foresight in booking anywhere to stay so the last resort was a pretty boujee Best Western outside Halifax at a place called Chocolate Lake. They had sick buffalo chicken wings, a pool, and an unreal arcade in the basement of the hotel.

The original graphic was off an old pinball machine that I could imagine was well dated from the ’80s. It was pretty beat up and all the paint was scratched off. I can’t find the old photo as its probably on my smashed up iPhone. So I cleaned up the graphic, edited in sharper lines, moved some things around, added new colorways, and through in some symbolic yew glyphs.

Looks as if buddy in the graphic is casting some sort of spell to control the mind of a kind cobra, assuming some sort of harm to whoever comes his way. I do not condone this sort of violence, so practice spells with the utmost of extreme caution as they can sometimes go south.

Cast Spells

Golden Gill

when’s a good time to come and get it, and how much moula?

- Steve Gill, making deals with his local hat dealer.
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Let me first introduce yew to the legend above us here, Steve Gill, sporting the first hat he purchased from me years back (Proxima Midnight). Since 2017 this guy has been supporting me and I can’t begin to tell yew how truly blessed I am to have befriended him since meeting him the day of his original purchase.

Couple months ago, Steve had wanted this cool hat I made a post about it, alas, the hat was on someone elses head. I suggested to him a similar style of fabric and proceeded to custom design a custom hat just for Steve.

This hat features a heavyweight cotton, with a super stee olive-gold colour with a sheen to its fibers.

• Upholstery Grade Textile

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Buckskin Gold Stitching

One of One
Completely Yewnique for Steve,

I give yew,

Golden Gill:

Nesting Area

keep away from the piping plovers!

- Parnell MacDonald

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Here is a complete one of a kind design. One of One dedicated to the piping plovers, just hope they are doing okay over the winter, yew know what I mean?

This hat features a heavyweight woven cotton, you can really check out the detail of its weave in the photos.

Solid black, lightweight grey, and an off gold.

• Upholstery Grade Textile

• Yew Woven Label

• Black 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Buckskin Gold Stitching

Only One, Available HERE

I give yew,

NESTING AREA

SAVE THE POUR PLOVERS

Hershey: eat-more

This is a tribute to my favourite chocolate bar, the Eat-More:

what can yew say about the eat-more, yeah it may look like a doo, but if you look deeper its just chocolate toffee and bits of peanuts, don’t be embarrassed around friends anymore, it’s 2020 no one can say anything about the look of your chocolate bar, man.

aside from its look, yew have to admire the design of the bars’ packaging, it’s so inviting.

boom yellow,

rosey oranges and a field of grass green.

dark toffee peanut chew, what’s a guy to even do?

bold lettering and translation in french,

eat the bar that looks like a piece of poo,

just be

yew:

Aquatic Paisley d'Or

Velcome to noon-teen sheventy five Austin Powers and Fajaa. Yew see Mr Powers l love GOLD.

- Mike Myers

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The moment yew’ve all been waiting for has arrived, well, maybe not the moment everyone’s been waiting for, but if it is and what I’ve been bloggin’ catches your attention, then yes dude, send it! Let me know in the comments [that stuff really makes my day and helps me design even more, such blessings.]

This is the chicken dinner! The third and final hat of this ‘Aquatic Paisley Adventure Trip’ yew has been taking yew on. Best in Show at the regional fair, the prize gem, da stee mon. This hat features the arrangement of the previous two builds, the beautiful vintage paisley print, and the aquamarine textured woven cotton.

To further its radness, custom seam tape was made from the paisley fabric which lines the guts of the hat and closes in the back where a ponytail can come out of if yew have one. One of my all-time favorite threads ‘buckskin gold’ laces the entirety of the hat, as well as the YKK slide-adjuster.

This is the third, and final set of five:

• Vintage Paisley Cotton/Polyester

• Vintage Aquamarine Woven Cotton

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• Paisley YKK Slide Adjuster

• Paisley Seam tape

• Buckskin Gold Stitching

Only two remain, available HERE

I give yew,

Aquatic Paisley d’Or:

wig out with your wigs out, toupée, more like yewpée!!

Paisley Power

The paisley design was commonly associated with rebellion; it was a statement of non-conformity, a welcome alternative to the preceding sober mod fashion trends. It was the perfect print for the androgynous hedonistic counterculture of the hippies.

The hippie look is strongly linked to the psychedelic "Summer of Love" when 100,000 people came together in Haight-Ashbury, a district of San Francisco, California to share their common beliefs such as rejecting consumerist values and encouraging pacifism.

Paisley patterns and other fabrics from around the world helped encourage a spirit of multiculturalism and, for the wearer, were visual statements of this principle.

- Patrick Moriarty

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Welcome back to the second part of this explanation series and I hope everyone had a great weekend! Apologies for no content posted over the weekend but was shredding with the homies on a little boarding mission to Martok in Chester, NS.

This hat features a beautiful vintage paisley print, which incorporates both small and large paisley combinations and floral attributes to the print as well. To further amplify its rad-ness, the fabric is screen printed with gold ink outlining certain features of the textile.

Heavy on the Teal, a faded Purple, a nice blush Red, and hints of Rose, Beige, and Black.

This is the second set of five:

• Vintage Paisley Cotton/Polyester

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• Plastic Clip Closure

• Aqua & Buckskin Stitching

Only two remain, available HERE

I give yew,

Paisley Power

Yabba Dabba

“Barney, what’s the big idea, leaving the bowling ball in the middle of the floor!”

- Fred Flinstone
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Thanks for checking in y’all, we’re about to get prehistoric!

The Flinstones was always one of my favorite cartoons growing up, was always a riot watching Fred wig out at everyone and how memorable it was whenever Fred gets off work, slides down the brontosaurus’ neck and belts out “Yabba Dabba Doo!”

This is a design I came up with a little while back, very simple and very effective. If yew know me by now, or you’re just tuning in for the first time, it’s too easy to spin things off with yew, thus this design fits perfectly.

Yabba Dabba Yew, created using bones I built in illustrator and assembling them into letters, and using some fun color schemes to go along with it.

Yabba Dabba Yewwwww!

Aquadood

yew can catch him at low tide when the moon’s in full charge.

water shoes and jean shorts, no shirt and gold chain,
jet black mullet reflecting the last rays of the setting sun,
protected by the plastic lenses of his fake Oakleys.

he scans the sand with his Quantum XT.
for hidden bounty, lost treasure and wedding bands,
alas, nothing, as he lights up another dart,

the aquadood.
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Thanks for checking in! This is the first of the next three hat posts. Along with the fabric in this hat, the fabric in the next post to come, and the combination of the two, a limited set of beautiful hats were created.

This past summer, in my parents’ garage where I had my temporary studio, this collection was created.

Fifteen 5-Panel hats, five of each style,

This is the first five:

• Vintage Aquamarine Woven Cotton

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• Plastic Clip Closure

• Aqua Stitching

Only two remain, available HERE

I give yew,

Aquadood

Olive Corduroy Cap

Hello Crew,

This is not a hat explanation, more so an information update.

The 5 Panel isn’t everyone’s thing, and I get that, it’s hardly my thing anymore, obviously, it used to be, considering the minor mass quantity of handmade ones all over this website. People always were asking to switch it up, so I have, and the reason it’s coming so late in the game is that I wanted to perfect the design of them.

Here are the first available ‘Standard Leisure Caps’
there is a limited quantity of this material,
made to order HERE for yew,

by yew:

thank yew.

where yew to?

where yew to Jake O’Doyle?

30cm of snow is dropping,

but we’re still gonna get silly,

and send it.

Here’s a design that I whipped up this morning.

Just something a little simple, easy line work, used the stroke tool and hit it with dashed line segments and multi-direction arrowheads, neato color schemes and transparent backdrops.

where Yew to?

let me know what yew think in the comments below

be the best yew today!

OP-Redondo

“Olive,
Poor thing,
Sits and thinks
That it's drab.
Sure does.
Sits and sits and sits and sits and thinks
About its olive drab drab.”

K. Nordine

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Welcome to the half-way point throughout your week, and thank yew for tuning in for a hat explanation.

About a year ago I got home from living/traveling Australia for the year. Leaving for that trip I didn’t want to stop creating, so I packed an additional piece of luggage full of fabrics, hardware, threads, and some critical sewing essentials. Once established, I found a beautiful Singer Golden Touch on Gumtree, went and sent to it. This range of hats was designed from two beautiful combinations of grade-A fabrics.

textile 1: Lightweight Olive Woven Cotton

textile 2: Cream base, Scarlet / Gold / Beige / Olive Paisley

• Yew Woven Label

• Accented Front, Underbrim and Adjuster

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Olive Thread

In the Australian winter of 2018, living in a small beachside apartment on the Gold Coast, fourteen of these beautiful olive and paisley printed hats were designed at 3 Redondo Ave, 4220, Miami.

I give yew,

OP-Redondo

That it is about to be named color of the year
By those with the nose for the new,
By the passionate f’yew.

yew.

Turntquoise

it’s the weekend and its Saturday night.
there some feelers for the fevers and fienders.

sharpen the skates, time to get lit up.

completely pitted, wake up in the snowbank
two blocks from your place.
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thank yew for stopping by on the first of February for an explanation.
this design was a custom ordered project from 2018. the project began by a customer specifically choosing a fabric I had in stock, and what a dandy she done chose. Using a 25 sq. in. factory sample there was enough fabric to create two custom hats:

a beautiful, heavyweight, woven turquoise cotton/polyester blend.

• Yew Woven Label

• White 4mm Eyelets

• YKK Slide Adjuster

• Teal Stitching

i give yew,

Turntquoise