I have an odd shape to my head which makes it difficult to find hats that fit. Imagine taking a clay ball between your palms and smooshing it a bit on the sides. That’s my head.
I can wear most tuques, or top hats, or visors, but the brims of most baseball hats are too wide for my forehead. This wouldn’t be a problem with shoes, or gloves, for example, since those come in a very wide variety of sizes. Unfortunately, the human head achieves almost its full size by the age that most kids can start playing tee-ball, so there just isn’t much demand for small hat sizes. This means that all of the cool, or funny, or ironic hats out there don’t fit me. Mostly, I end up with plain hats in plain colors.
This winter, I decided to try to liven things up by making my own hat patches. I used acrylic paint to create some fishy designs on muslin cloth and then carefully cut out patches that I wanted to use. I applied them to the hats with fabric glue and then carefully hand stitched around the edges with nylon thread.
I think the results look pretty good for a first attempt. The next question is how well they will hold up to use in the salt and sun.
The Fishing Dojo 