There is a moment on the way out the door to the quilt shop when you reach up, feel what three happy hours at the machine did to your hair, and grab a cap. Frayed Feathers is our collection of ball caps wearing the Quilt Hair Don't Care birds, which makes for a lovely little contradiction: the cap tames the frizz while the bird on the front proudly announces it. Here is the flock, sorted by cap color, so you can match your bird to your mood.
In black, for a little drama
Chaos Finch looks spectacular against a dark cap, a rainbow-feathered bird mid-shriek, perched on a heap of star quilt blocks with Quilt Hair Don't Care lettered in bright, happy color beside her. She also turns up in deep purple in this collection for anyone who wants her away from the cap. Ruckus Jay hugs a star block under a crest of rainbow spikes, circled by the words quilt hair, nope, I don't care. Noodle Beakman, the long-legged orange bird with the red mop, perches beside his stack of folded fabric in warm orange lettering that glows on black.
In stone and slate blue, for every errand
The quiet shades let the birds do all the talking. On stone, Snipsy Wren stands on a cutting mat with her rotary cutter under a cloud of rainbow swirls, Ziggy Bobbin stretches his wings wide over a tiny sewing machine, Puffin Bea peeks out from a tangle of thread-colored curls next to her fat quarters, and Lady Plumeadora the peacock fans her tail beside a heap of green fabric. On slate blue, Frizzle Mae gasps over her scrap pile under a spiky green crest, and Curlene Spoolworth gazes down, unbothered, from a branch with spools dangling on their threads.
In pinks and orange, for the brights lovers
Peaches Plume sits on a raspberry cap, a pink bird with a rainbow crest and a pieced block, with the words in soft white script beneath her. Velma Nightwing, a plump violet bird with a wind-tossed dark plume, keeps her glass of red wine and her sewing machine on a bubblegum pink cap. And Pip Patchlet, small and fuzzy with a patchwork quilt draped over her branch, rides on a burnt orange cap that looks like autumn at the quilt show.
For the quilter on the go
These caps are made for the quilt shop run, the guild meeting that starts in ten minutes, the retreat morning when nobody has time to fuss, and the quilter who would rather be sewing than styling. Grab the color you reach for most and head out the door. Just check the brim for a stray thread before you leave. With this flock, there is always one hitching a ride.
Written by Jacqueline. Thanks for reading.
