Today’s random project was a sun hat for Griff. We have one for him that’s almost too small, and another one that might fit him when he’s three. I cast about on the intarwebs looking for a suitable free pattern and ran across this one:
http://www.ottobredesign.com/fi/kaavat/pdf/girls_hat_EN.pdf. It’s supposed to be a girl’s hat, but aside from the rose decoration, which I left off, I can’t see what’s so girly about it. The brim does widen at the front and give it a bonnet-y look, but Griff’s a baby, so he gets to wear a bonnet if he wants to. It would be easy to modify the brim pattern piece to give it a uniform width, though.

I found some of the pattern directions a little confusing, so I applied Heather Logic and made it the way I wanted to. It’s not reversible the way I put it together, but I only used a single fabric for this prototype, so it doesn’t matter. If I make another one, and I probably will, I’m planning to use several different fabrics for the 6 crown “slices” to give it some variety.