Hey there! Sorry for being so late in responding. I really need to get around to updating my gallery here.

My suggestion to folks as to sewing -- particularly for those who haven't done much before -- is to start with a pattern rather than trying to create your own. It's easier to modify a design than to create one from scratch.

For this, I wound up up starting with an out-of-print Simplicity design (out-of-print doesn't mean you can't get it from their website tho) for a "Sherlock Holmes" outfit.

It wasn't exactly what I was looking for -- I think I only wound up using the back piece from it (sides and pockets were wrong, cape wasn't right dimensions, no flap of cloth to cover the buttons, wrong collar) -- but it was enough to give me an idea of what I was looking to do with the design. :)

The deerstalker is actually a fairly simple design -- six identical pieces (some folks use eight), sort of curved triangle shapes, to make the main body. Brims are just crescent moon shapes and earflaps are rectangles with half-circles on the end. That's the way I do patterns anyway -- try to break them down into simpler shapes to work from :)

Also, I have deerstalkers available for sale on etsy as TheClockworkCoyote :) The exterior's a wool-blend, interior's a grey polyester lining material, grosgrain ribbon for the ties