Summer Flower Hat

 Well, there's been so much making here, and so much of it is hush hush, but I found these photos from the summer that somehow escaped posting but can elude me no longer.  This was a sweet bucket hat for a friend of ours who requested purple and blue.  The fabric is African hand tie dyed cloth, a kind of thick brocade so I didn't interface it. 

 Aside from the petal brim, it really just kind of needed ... something.  A gigantic flower, perhaps?

Now that I'm knitting hats to warm heads it is fun to look back at hats just meant to keep the sun off.