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#554442 - 02/01/08 08:58 AM Coon Skin Cap Pattern?
Greg H Offline
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Registered: 12/18/07
Posts: 37
Loc: Ontario, Canada
Just wondering if anyone has a pattern for a coon skin hat?
I would like to try and make one for the little guy but have not been able to find a pattern or information.
Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Greg H
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#555630 - 02/01/08 07:50 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: Greg H]
doc9013 Offline
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Registered: 12/10/07
Posts: 529
Loc: Franklin, W.V.
I would like to see a pattern too-ttt
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#555670 - 02/01/08 08:09 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: doc9013]
longbeard Offline
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Registered: 12/23/06
Posts: 141
Loc: W. Ky.
Not a pattern, but....

http://www.coonskincap.com/coonskin.htm
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#555736 - 02/01/08 08:40 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: doc9013]
lonerjay Offline
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Registered: 12/23/06
Posts: 113
Loc: rural Oregon
I used to make them back in the 90's. I do not have a patern but you can make them easy. the sides are 2 regtangles. to size them rap a string around your head and measure it. the 2 rectangles will be sew together with an easy stitcher or heavy needle and carpet thread. so you have to have 1/4 in on each rectangle for the seem. you want the rectangles wide enough to come down a little over your ears. 4-5 inches wide I'm guessing.

you lay them fur to fur and stitch through the leather side of the pieces. the seam goes in the back. The top is going to be a circle of sorts only longer.
Use the rectangles pushed into the head shaped cirle to take a paper and draw around the top to make a pattern for the top.
If you want the face you will draw this patern on the hide behind the face of the racoon the face goes turned down over the front of the rectangles and pined down with a few stitches going in through the face and rectangles tied inside the hat.
you sew the top on with the hat tuned inside out or leather side out put the edge of the top with the edge of sides and sew around with the easy stitcher. sew the tail on the back. Make a liner out of black quilted cotton bating / cloth from a sewing store the same as the leather only a little smaller so it fits inside sew the liner pieces together then sew all around the bottom of the hat and a couple of stitches are placed around the top and hidden in the fur. then turn the hole thing from inside out to outside in.

I used to make them out of beaver. I knew a beaver skinner that could shave a beaver very thin when he skinned it. I think my favorite was a bobcat pelt and then the skunk 2nd favorite. I made a coat by taking apart a swued leather coat and using it for a pattern. It had assorted furs sew into it. I used a chrome tan process that was published at the time.
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#555743 - 02/01/08 08:46 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: lonerjay]
goat Offline
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Registered: 01/13/08
Posts: 317
Loc: Duson La
Nice hats
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#555752 - 02/01/08 08:52 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: lonerjay]
Lugnut Offline
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Registered: 12/23/06
Posts: 244
Loc: Berks County Pa.
That skunk hat is great...I want one!
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#555768 - 02/01/08 08:59 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: Lugnut]
pintail_drake04 Offline
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Registered: 12/23/06
Posts: 398
Loc: So. IL
love that jacket and the skunk cap
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#555771 - 02/01/08 09:01 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: pintail_drake04]
doc9013 Offline
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Registered: 12/10/07
Posts: 529
Loc: Franklin, W.V.
Thanks guys, great pics!
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#559892 - 02/04/08 07:42 AM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: lonerjay]
Greg H Offline
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Registered: 12/18/07
Posts: 37
Loc: Ontario, Canada
Thanks for all the help guys.
I have a few coon left in the freezer and I am going to sort through them and find some nice colours to get started.

Greg
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#559901 - 02/04/08 07:54 AM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: Greg H]
redneck_cowboy Offline
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Registered: 07/12/07
Posts: 3722
Loc: Scott County,Virginia...14
that skunk hat is awesome
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#560085 - 02/04/08 10:56 AM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: redneck_cowboy]
Blue Eyes Offline
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Registered: 08/19/07
Posts: 313
Loc: Wisconsin
There are a couple of hat patterns on the market. Very easy to follow even for beginners. I've been sewing for years, but not fur hats...it's on the agenda to start this winter. Here's a link to one company that sells "Eagle View" patterns. They are available at some rendezvous and here in our home town as well.

http://www.sewingcentral.com/cgi-bin/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=pm.html&cart_id=818_29528

Nice hats lonerjay!!! This is what we see at rendezvous as finished products.

Susan/Blue Eyes
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#560270 - 02/04/08 01:53 PM Re: Coon Skin Cap Pattern? [Re: Blue Eyes]
slick_ tail Offline
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Registered: 11/29/07
Posts: 332
Loc: scott county, virginia
i want a skunk hat
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