millinery

making your own hat is so satisfying, you’ll wonder why you never made one before.  easy as pie!

Materials:

• pattern:  hatp1.pdf, hatp2.pdf, hatp3.pdf

• 1/2 yard hat fabric
• 1/2 yard lining fabric
• 1/4 yard fusible interfacing
• button
• sewing machine/needle & thread
• (optional) ham for pressing

Instructions:

1.  lay out the pattern pieces

2. pin the pattern pieces to your fabric

3. cut out all the pieces (in hat & lining fabric) and interfacing

4. on the side pieces, mark the edge closest to the front pieces (this edge is longer and helps with the shape of the hat)

5. fuse interfacing to the peak pieces

6. with right sides together, sew the back pieces together at 1/2″

7. with right sides together,  sew the front pieces together at 1/2″. then sew the side pieces to the front piece

8. press the seams open now (it will be harder to press later, when the hat is assembled)

9.  sew the back piece to the sides

at this point, you can trim some of the bulk off the top.

10. repeat steps 6-9 for the lining fabric.

11. with right sides together, sew the peak pieces together at 1/4″

 

turn the peak right side out and press it flat.

12. you should now have 3 pieces that look like this

13. (optional) topstitch the peak at 1/4″ for decoration.

14. with right sides together, pin the peak to the hat

15. lay the hat and peak into the lining (which is inside out)

16. beginning at centre back, sew the hat to the lining at 1/4″, leaving a 2-3″ gap

17. turn the hat right side out

18. press the edge of the hat flat

 

(please excuse the dirty laundry in the background)

19. blindstitch or machine stitch the opening closed.

20. attach a button to the top of the hat, sewing through both hat & lining (so that the lining doesn’t fall down)

21. ooooh

* another way of finishing the hat is to leave the raw edges of the hat and lining exposed

and stitch a grosgrain ribbon over them.