(re-post)
Toques are common in Ontario. Having spent more than forty winters there I recall growing up with a brother who always had a toque on his head and a hockey stick in his hand. (His winter headgear is now a golf cap in Florida)
Moving to Victoria twenty-two years ago, I needed something on my head for the chilly season, but traditional toques are too tight and too hot. I’ve come up with different styles of hats but last year, played around with fleece, and came up with this, which reminds me of a toque.
I continue to love fleece, its light weight, warmth, wind and rain resistance, softness, colour- fastness, quick dry, no need to hem the edges.
The simple flaps can be tied under chin as a scarf, left open …
… or tucked up into the folded brim.
All ways of wearing satisfy the “clothing as architecture housing the body using the body’s natural heating and cooling sytems.”
Essentially it’s a 28 ” by 12 ” piece of fleece sewn into a tube ….
…. pins marking the four corners….
…. pins brought to center …
seams sewed up. I stitched down the seams to make crown less puffy. Added the flaps.
I’m going by the ocean now: will need the flaps down and tied: