On Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:35:00 -0300, Joy Beeson
wrote:

On Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:26:51 +0700, John B.
wrote:

My wife does do-rags as part of a normal dress making session. Use the
remnants. Patterns made years ago. Whatever thread is in the
machine...

Now is a fine time to think of it -- I could have borrowed Dave's
black cotton do-rag, which is the one I copied to make my white linen
do-rag.

A few years back, he needed soft cotton scalp covers, so I downloaded
do-rag patterns, drafted a pattern I thought would fit, and tweaked
the fit after each one. When I decided that I needed less scarf in
hot weather, I tried them all on, and made mine by the pattern for the
one that fit me. I am rather surprised that it's the one with the
highest crown, since his head is much larger than mine. But I need to
cover my ears, and he doesn't.

I enjoyed making a white linen do-rag; it felt so dainty, like an
eighteenth-century cap, even though I made it entirely by machine.
(Eighth-inch (3 mm) seams will do that.)

My wife makes patterns - once years ago I paid for her to be what
might be termed an apprentice in a dress making shop and the first
thing that they taught her was how to measure people and how to make
the patterns from those measurements. She now has patterns from years
ago (many of which won't fit any more :-).

see http://tinyurl.com/y84nh7pbaps, some of which might look nice
under a helmet :-)
--
Cheers,

John B.