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Post by brokennock on Jan 6, 2023 8:28:08 GMT -7
1st let me say this. We have some great people and some really great posts here. It may be slow, but, what we have has quality. I did a search for my subject item before posting this thinking I may have posed the question before. While I didn't find it as a subject, I did come across a lot of good reading.
Thank you to all involved.
Anyway,
I have some yarn I would like to have knitted into a Monmouth cap. Does anyone have a recommendation of who I can contact and send the yarn to for such a project? I really would like to have it made by someone who has made them before and understands the history and the design.
Barring that, I do know people who knit. Are there "patterns" available for knitting as there are for sewing clothing? If so, does anyone know where I can get a pattern for said cap.
Thank you again.
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Post by paranger on Jan 6, 2023 10:07:43 GMT -7
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Post by brokennock on Jan 6, 2023 10:13:15 GMT -7
"Latrine," hat?! Are you calling me a s___ head? 😆 |
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Post by paranger on Jan 6, 2023 10:20:08 GMT -7
"Latrine," hat?! Are you calling me a s___ head? 😆 Don't laugh: privvies are archeological gold mines!! 😁 |
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Post by brokennock on Jan 8, 2023 8:18:03 GMT -7
Further down the page there is a link to an article on a Monmouth cap project one of their people did. pieceworkmagazine.com/week-history-knit-monmouth-cap/You can read the article on this or the latrine cap without being a subscriber, you just can't get the pattern. I might buy the issue of their magazine that includes the Monmouth cap if I can find out for sure if it has the pattern. |
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Post by Black Hand on Jan 8, 2023 8:58:28 GMT -7
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Post by ewoaf on Jan 8, 2023 9:29:24 GMT -7
I recommend saving the yarn. If you'll look around there's plenty of quality Monmouth caps for sale in the 40-50 range. Etsy and Wm Booth draper usually have them. Otherwise FB makers usually have them. You'll eventually find something you want that not a lot of people are reproducing and can use the yarn for that.
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Post by brokennock on Jan 8, 2023 15:55:13 GMT -7
I recommend saving the yarn. If you'll look around there's plenty of quality Monmouth caps for sale in the 40-50 range. Etsy and Wm Booth draper usually have them. Otherwise FB makers usually have them. You'll eventually find something you want that not a lot of people are reproducing and can use the yarn for that. If it were a standard earth tone color (which I would prefer) I would have already done this. But, this is hinter orange wool yarn. I had some days this season where I didn't want to use my hunter orange matchcoat, just a simple cap would have sufficed. Most of the orange knit caps I find are of some unnatural yarn, and oddly makes my head itch,,, wool actually doesn't make me itch like it does some folks. |
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