48 lines
2 KiB
Markdown
48 lines
2 KiB
Markdown
|
---
|
||
|
|
author: "joostdecock"
|
||
|
|
caption: "Quentin surrounded by our future robot overlords."
|
||
|
|
date: "2017-12-06"
|
||
|
|
image: "https://cdn.sanity.io/images/hl5bw8cj/site-content/ee5c11e3b29fe788dae470ab0e20396d806c4d1b-2000x1333.jpg"
|
||
|
|
intro: "The Florent Flat Cap pattern is now available in beta. That's another gift sorted."
|
||
|
|
title: "The Florent Flat Cap pattern is now available in beta. That's another gift sorted."
|
||
|
|
---
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
After last month's release of [Benjamin](/patterns/benjamin), here's another pattern release
|
||
|
|
to channel the dapper gentleman within: the [Florent Flat Cap](/patterns/florent).
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Like Benjamin, this pattern was contributed by the freesewing community, rather than
|
||
|
|
yours truly. In this case, it was [Quentin Felix](/users/ptzcb) who signed for the design.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
I asked Quentin if he wanted to write this announcement blog post himself,
|
||
|
|
but he argued that it was time I did something too. He did have this to share
|
||
|
|
though, on his reasons for designing this pattern in the first place:
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
> ##### Quentin on his reasons for designing Florent
|
||
|
|
>
|
||
|
|
> I like wearing flat caps myself. I didn't use to, but I have
|
||
|
|
> a friend Florent who inspired me to wear them (now you know where the name comes from).
|
||
|
|
>
|
||
|
|
>
|
||
|
|
> The first time I made a flat cap, it took me ages to scale the
|
||
|
|
> pattern to an exact fit, involving a lot of messing about with tracing paper.
|
||
|
|
> There's a number of patterns available online for flat caps.
|
||
|
|
> But they all come in one size only.
|
||
|
|
>
|
||
|
|
> I wanted to make this more accessible to people. And, while I was at it,
|
||
|
|
> I also drew on my experience to add some tweaks for a better fit.
|
||
|
|
>
|
||
|
|
> For example, this design extends lower at the back of the head, which
|
||
|
|
> gives it better hold.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
This *why should we always have to re-invent the wheel?* could
|
||
|
|
pretty much be freesewing's slogan.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
## It's the season for giving
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Florent requires only one measurement: the head circumference. As such,
|
||
|
|
this release is perfectly timed. With the holiday season coming up,
|
||
|
|
here's another gift you can make yourself.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
Thanks Quentin!
|
||
|
|
|