Fleece Hats With Animal Ears

It's coming up on cold weather season. I've got so much polar fleece stacked in the sewing room, far more than I can use making fleece scarves, that I started doing google searches on 'fleece hats with animal ears'.  

Wow is there a variety.  I'm not interested in the kids sizes, I've been thinking of doing them up for adults.  Deviantart and Etsy both had some sophisticated designs.  Each that I've seen that I LIKED were basically made up of 4 triangles for the head part, a wrap around brow brim and then the ears placed in one of the side seams.  The more fancy type (which look better) had the inner front part of the ear sewn into a slice made in the hat, allowing for an L shape for the sewn base of each ear, which helps with the stand-up ability for larger ears such as for fox and wolf instead of cat ears. 

There are tutorials online, findable with enough searches.  Fleece stretches to fit, so the brow band doubled over helps keep the shape on a person's head without stretching out.  Enough people are making the SAME design that I suspect there's a pattern out there in Butterick, Simplicity, Burda, etc. which probably has the basic hat shape.  

Some have ear flaps and ties for under the chin, but I like the ones with the plain head band better, they look cleaner cut.  Here's a sample of one of the Wolf ones that caught my eye. 

http://www.taghats.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Ear-Hats.jpg 

I did run across several fleece hats with eyes added, like the shark hat with teeth around the brim to make it look like it's eating the head of the wearer.  OMG!  I wouldn't make the shark but had an immediate image of an elaborate (yet simple to make) hat done as a sabertooth cat head hat, with ears put on like the wolf one in the link above, but with felt eyes and teeth hanging down to frame the face in front of the wearer's ears!  

Here's one image where they did a face, it's just appliqued on.  I'd do stuffed fangs with a slightly stuffed circular muzzle area at the upper base of each tooth.  A sabertooth cat/hat. 

Image --- http://clearkid.deviantart.com/art/Grey-Wolf-Hat-133895172  

The juices are flowing!