From this article you can learn how to make hats for little fashionistas yourself. Of course, it will take a lot of time to get an effective product, but it's worth it. Moreover, today there are many options for making hats and each one is original and interesting in its own way.
Hat Options for Girls
So, if you want, do-it-yourself hats for girls are pretty simple. Of course, you have to work hard, experiment. However, you can create individual masterpieces that no one else has. For example, a very interesting version of a mini-hat that sits on an invisible bed and simply adorns your girl’s head like a hairpin.
Very interesting are the little hats for princesses that run on the rims. They can be decorated very variably and effectively, for example, with beads, rhinestones, bows and ribbons.
You can perform them from various materials - cardboard, colored paper, fabric. Also, headgear decorations can be different - bright nets, beads, Christmas tinsel, laces and the like.
Cardboard Hats
This type of hat is the most popular. They are very easy to do. They can be both high and low, both large and small. Perhaps the most popular do-it-yourself cardboard hat today is the regular top hat and miniature hat on its side. Each of these options has its own scope.
Of the usual cardboard, you can make various options for hats. For example, a huge Hatter cylinder from the movie "Alice in Wonderland" or an ordinary cowboy with a feather. There are many options.
Using a small cardboard cylinder, you can make a glamorous miniature hat on the rim, which will appeal to many fashionistas. It can be easily worn at a ball or just at a gala event.
Mini hat on the rim. Necessary materials
So, we will consider how to make a mini-hat under the rim with your own hands. To make it we need:
- two types of scissors (cut and zigzag);
- tweezers;
- pencil;
- compass;
- needle and thread;
- ruler;
- glue;
- five small feathers;
- thick cardboard;
- cardboard cylinder;
- white and black lace;
- beads of two colors;
- ribbons for decoration;
- dense adhesive pad (shabrak);
- black knit fabric;
- black large bead.
Of course, if desired, all the elements can be varied, adding and removing to your taste.
Manufacturing process
So, when creating a hat for girls with your own hands, you need to start the work with cutting and preparing the elements. Cut a circle of cardboard and lining fabric, then stick the scraper on the knit. Use an iron for this.
Now take the zigzag scissors, cut them off the outer edge of the circle, which will reduce the shedding of fabric. After this, markup for fastening the rim should be done on the wrong side with a simple pencil (since it is on it that the hat will be held on the head).
Now take the cardboard cylinder and glue the bottom on it. Cut out a circle from knitwear that will be equal to the diameter of the bottom of the cylinder. Add a few more centimeters. Now glue it to the bottom and wrap it a little on the cylinder.
The next step in the manufacture of hats for girls with their own hands will be cutting a strip of knitwear. We need it to glue the cylinder, so calculate its width and height based on what size your product is. Add a few centimeters (the joints) to the length and height.
Now sew a piece of fabric so that you have a cylinder. Iron one upper part somewhere by one centimeter. Iron the seam as well. Now glue the cylinder onto the cardboard and fold the lower sections to the inside (they also need to be glued).
Now let's start making the fields at the hat with our own hands for girls. Cut a circle of the diameter that you want to have at the headgear fields. Exactly the same circle (only two centimeters more) should be cut from knitwear. In width, it should be the same as the radius of your fields (plus throw another one and a half centimeters). Sew the strip into the ring and iron one side of the cut somewhere by one centimeter.
Now glue the side that you ironed from the wrong side to the fields. From the outer edge, assemble knitwear using a thread and a needle. Now trim the lace edges of the margins.
Stick the finished cylinder on the finished hat fields. Decorate it with prepared lace, and glue the beads on top. Here you need tweezers. Then glue the feathers of guinea fowls, and next to them - a bow. Decorate the middle of it with a bead.
At the very beginning, we prepared the bottom of the fields, in which there are slots. Insert the loops there and glue them. Then glue this blank to the margins and thread the rim. The hat is ready.
Hat-cylinder. Materials and production start
This type of headgear is a fairly universal thing, as it can easily be used for carnival, as well as for celebratory or social events. If you decide to buy such a hat for yourself, it is easy to make it yourself at home, which will cost you much cheaper. So, we will describe a detailed master class on how to make a cylinder hat with your own hands.
What materials will you need:
- black cardboard;
- glue;
- sharp pencil;
- Scotch;
- sharp scissors;
- ruler and centimeter;
- decorations to taste.
Now you need to measure the circumference of your head. Measure out exactly as much cardboard in length, plus add three centimeters for gluing. The height of the cylinder is optional.
Now you need to cut out the bottom of the headgear. To do this, twist the cut strip and place it on the cardboard. Circle the circle. Now you should draw another one - the outer one, which will be a few centimeters larger in diameter. Cut the resulting circle to a larger diameter. Make cuts in a line from the outer circle to the small one. Bend them in one direction.
Cut the fields of the hat. Decide on their size and circle. Make an inner circle that will be equal to the diameter of the cylinder. Cut cardboard to the inside outer edge. In addition, you should draw another circle, which will be equal to the diameter of the cylinder. Only inside it is necessary to create another such figure, which will be smaller than the diameter of the cylinder. Cut everything out and make cuts from the inner circle to the outer.
Hat-cylinder. Assembly
So, now we begin to assemble the cylinder-hat for girls with our own hands. Glue the product with glue. For fidelity, use tape on the inner seam. Now apply glue to the ends of the “fringe” of the bottom of the cap, carefully insert them into the cylinder and also fasten it with adhesive tape.
Now let's take care of the fields. Take a circle with curved notches and glue it with the margins so that the notches are sticking up (glue from under the bottom of the fields). Then apply glue to the bent parts and glue them to the cylinder from the inside. Fasten everything with tape.
So, you have a cylinder. To make it look beautiful, you can drape it on top (at your choice) with a cloth or net, decorate it with ribbon, beads, rhinestones, and insert a feather. The hat is ready.
Conclusion
So, now you know what you can make hats for girls with your own hands. Having shown a little imagination and decorating the product, you can get a real work of art that will be enjoyed not only by you, but also by your little fashionista.