Seven years ago I went to my maternal grandmothers' 90th birthday. Her name was June, we called her Mumzum- my eldest brother would say mums' mum but it got a little blurred, and it stuck.
I knew that she loved a pretty scarf, and groovy hats. I had made scarves before, so it was time to try a hat.
My spinners group had a workshop, run by a member, on how to make a funky type of hat using rather unusual resist templates. I wanted a really lightweight hat, something that would sit gently. I started with black merino, added a "hatband" of magenta merino, sprinkles of magenta merino around the crown. Over the magenta I curled strands of my white handspun silk, and drizzled strands of white and pink silk. The resist has an extension which to which I added dark, dark brown merino, making sure to only get the ends. After getting to a certain point, I put it on a wooden hat block...then, felt, felt, felt.
The extra piece of fabric can be twisted/twirled, tweaked into attractive shapes. With this hat, I twirled it into a rose, curling it to accentuate the mohair. I secured it with a shiny black button from my stash.
In 2017, my grandmother passed away. I couldn't make it to the funeral, but was involved in the process as I was contributing to organising something special (each child, grandchild, great-grandchild, created a star template, to be stenciled with gold paint onto a shroud)
My mother was able to send me the hat I had made, enabling me to wear it on the day of the funeral 💜
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