Happy New Year

Yeah....I'm a bad blogger. But I have been making stuff.

My best friend Amberlee got me a fabulous Christmas present. A hat shaper ! Follow the link to see what a hat shaper is and then buy one!!! I have no affiliation....just a very happy customer!

I should start by saying that I have never made a hat before. And I don't know any of the "proper" methods for making a hat. I know how to glue, I know how to sew, I know fabric and I know paper.

I'm going from there. lol

I made a quick layout to show you the bowler/derby hat I made using frayed denim scraps and Mod Podge. It's a very stiff hat. In order to attach the fabric under the brim (which is also part of the lining) I had to use a tiny hole punch all the way around the brim so I could do the blanket edge stitching. It took some time but it came out just the way I wanted. And that is what matters.

For the Mod Podging of the scraps to make the basic body of the hat I covered the hat shaper form with plastic warp to protect the form. I didn't want to take the chance of permanently gluing the fabric to the form. I want to make lots of hats.

The next hat I'm working on is using buckram, concentrated liquid starch and stretchy fleece that my daughter picked out. She wants her hat to be orange and fuzzy. lol I'm sewing this one for most of the construction after I make the sturdy underlayment from the buckram. That'll be another post.

So here is my new hat:



Not bad for a first hat. I've got two more hat shapers coming to me. One is a fedora. I think I'll use my Valentine's day novelty fabric for that one.... Or maybe the natural colored felt...

So many wild possibilities!