wintry biking cap

biking is all the rage these days.  when the temperature is sub-30 degrees, how are peeps supposed to carry on with biking?  with a wool bike helmet liner of course!  my friend steve was lamenting how he was due to purchase a wool bike helmet liner recently.  "what?" i remark.  "there's such a thing?"  i immediately text jimmy, the best resource of all things techy and bikey, and sure enough, he had already bought such a wool bike helmet liner!  (they range from $20-$90!)  the design seemed simple enough: a wool skull cap.  shirley had given me a ton of nice grey wool.  i used only a tiny bit to drum this up!

like the red cross-stitched initials i added on?  i'm always a sucker for monograms, cross-stitching, and personalizations.  i serged the edges of the wool together.  in hindsight, i now realize i can get away with using a regular sewing machine, as hats do not require stretchability from the crown to the base of the hat, but only width-wise, and thus serging the side seams is not necessary.  this would reduce the bulk of the seams.  i just handstitched the bottom ends back.

i tried to hire a model for this hat, but alas, he just would not stay put for the camera...

model:  bunks
pattern:  http://blog.jenmeister.com/2010/08/reversible-cycling-cap.html
camera:  cell-phone