Make a Paper Top Hat

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bristol board, card stock, creative, hat, how to, instructions, make, paper, punch, top hat

Click here for a pdf of pattern pieces and instructions.

Materials:

• 4 – 11” x 14” pieces of Bristol board or other light weight board such as poster board. One piece of the 4 is for making the templates. I used Strathmore 300 Series Bristol board for both my templates and hat pieces.
• 7.5 yards yarn or ribbon for lacing – I used worsted weight micro-fiber yarn
• blunt point yarn needle
• sharp 6H or 4H or 2H pencil
• scissors
• paper punch

I make templates of each pattern piece out of Bristol Board. I then use the templates to trace all pieces needed for the hat. I recommend sharpening your pencil frequently to have the most precise and easily removed lines to follow in cutting and punching. My thin pencil lines are removed when I cut out the pieces. For the greatest accuracy, I just barely cut off the pencil line; no more than that. The paper punch removes the traced punch guide circles.

Click here for a pdf of pattern pieces and instructions.

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Read more about this hat in Sewing Card Top Hat.

60’s Mod Fashion Helmet

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1960's, buckram, fashion helmet, hat, hat block, millinery, mod

This is the outer buckram shape I created for my mod helmet design.

We often don’t think enough about the underlying structure that is required to make a design work well. In many cases, more time and effort must be spent in creating the proper foundation or under-structure than we first anticipate.

Fulled Wool Hat

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felt, fulling, hat, millinery, wool yarn

Fulling is a variation of felting that uses knit or woven fibers rather than loose fibers. For this hat, I knitted 2 strands of worsted weight wool with eyelash and feather yarns. The decorative yarns were used to create interesting surface variation in texture, color change, and reflection of light.