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Marta 🌿🍃 @[email protected] · 2026-02-17 · 08:50 UTC

Finished a #hat for my daughter. We went full circle with her: I personally hate beanies because they either ride up, or get into the eyes, and painfully press on the ears. You may call it #neurodivergentTroubles , but I'm convinced everyone just tolerates them because they don't know any better.
I discovered that German sewing patterns for hats would often have ear flaps, and also visors, and was excited. I made several German hats for my children when they were little, and one was exactly like this but in beige corduroy instead.
Two things happened: she finally outgrew it, and conformed to wanting a black beanie... that was worn for a while happily, then avoided for a year, then she admitted it had all the faults listed above, and wanted a hat 'like that one I had before, that you'd made'.
The pattern only goes to 54cm head, and she's now 55cm. And instructions suggest that for corduroy and fluffy lining, I should size up... and I never perfected grading up or down before. I guess now I have a working method :)
I went two sizes up, but the pattern is too cautious really, and one is enough. I ended up removing 2cm from the circumference by resewing the final seam with larger seam allowance.
The first version was big enough for my head, and it definitely got me thinking ;) Need to make longer ear flaps and a bigger visor for myself though.
The pattern is free Supermuzz by Lila wie Liebe: https://www.lila-wie-liebe.de/supermuezz-wintermuetze-fuer-kinder-unsere-neue/
#sewing #corduroy #sensoryIssues