I’m a seamstress. I love sewing. But hats? Never crossed my mind. Then…

In 2009 two of my brothers asked me, in the same week, to make them a practical and warm hat to help them cope with snow blowing. They dreaded the chore and felt I could help out. What’s a sister to do, eh?

So I got to thinking—always a dangerous endeavor—and that got me to drawing and sewing. Within a week, I had made 15 different hats…yet found myself always going back to the very first prototype from the very first attempt.

In true Yooper fashion, I kept saying to myself, ‘It can’t be that simple’. I kept trying to improve it. Surely this hat has to be somewhere in the world…so why haven’t I ever seen one? Could it really be that simple? 

The answer was Yes.

And so, the Yooper Chook was born.

-Founder. Cynthia Dorie