Amy Butler Blue Sky hat

Now that is a brim!

I made this during my cleaning sabbatical

as a friend of mine leaves to go overseas next week and I promised her a hat that would:

1 Easily fold up to carry in her bag and

2 Actually keep the sun off her face and

3 Would be green or at least neutral.

I have made the Make It Perfcet Lazy Day hat a lot of times but the brim really wasn't big enough.

Well, no such problems with the Amy Butler hat.

I actually finished it,

tried it on,

thought "blimey"

then unstitched it and took a good 3-4cm off the brim width.

Don't get me wrong.

Some people would carry off the brim with aplomb.

It would also be a prefect gardening hat.

And it would also shade those people who are lucky enough to be anywhere near you.

But it wasn't for me and I knew my friend wouldn't like it either.

The end result is a great hat

with a very nice pattern that comes together easily.
I would have stabilised the brim by running a few lines of stitching around
but my friend was happy.

Just check the brim width before you commit to finishing it.