The Chicken or the Hat? Artist Judith M. Lindenfelser

There are a couple of things that I have loved all my life, hats and chickens being on that top 10 list.  Lindenfelser allows me to post both on the same page. She is a Milliner that keeps chickens in Alaska, okay that is 3 things, chickens, hat making, and Alaska.  My father was stationed there in WWII and though I have never been there I have always dreamed of the Alaska my father knew and loved.

"Tales From the Coop - Breakfast Reading is a collection of essays that revolve around Lindenfelser's experience raising chickens and selling eggs in Alaska. She has kept Outside Birds for nearly thirty years and sold their eggs. When her egg customers became curious about the chickens, ducks and geese whose eggs they were eating, Lindenfelser began including a 'Tale from the Coop' with their egg deliveries."

But wait! That is not all. She makes hats!

Judith Lindenfelser knits hats out of Lopi, a long-fiber sheep's wool from Iceland, at her home in Chugiak. Hat styles range from modern, including several with dreadlocks, to vintage, with many reminiscent of the early 1920s. Photos by Joshua Borough

Lindenfelser’s hats all have names. There is a small black cowboy hat named after Dale Evans, the famous cowboy queen of the ’40s. Next to it sits Clara Bow, a cloche, or flapper-style hat, named after the silent films actress. The Lucille Ball hat has antique curlers attached. (So cool!)