Make a Paper Top Hat

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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.

Sewing Card Top Hat

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bristol board, card stock, design, hat pattern, paper, pattern, top hat, white

I designed this paper top hat as part of a 5 day hat design workshop at Miami University “The Art of the Hat” with British milliner Dagmara Childs. My design was inspired by the sewing cards that children play with, where they use yarn laced through pre-punched holes to decorate or assemble pieces made from card stock or wood.

Spiral Sewn Taffeta Hat

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I found this hat at a local thrift shop. It’s made of iridescent taffeta which appears to shift from more red purple (magenta) to more blue purple (blue violet). The color shift is due to different color threads used for the warp than the weft, blue and red. They optically mix to create purple.