If you need to make yourself a small, but pleasant and useful souvenir, a great option is a needle-hat. Do it yourself with your own hands. Even a child can handle such a job. The product is perfect as a souvenir to mom or grandmother by March 8th. This thing can be made both at home independently, and used as a task on technology or artistic skill and needlework in a school or in a specialized circle.
Manufacturing methods
Do-it-yourself needle-cap can be done in different ways. Use any method you like:
- By pattern using cardboard circles.
- Without templates, but with a finished base in the form of a circle (disk) for the fields and a plastic jar for the upper part (tulle).
In the first case, you do not have to draw parts on paper, translate them onto fabric, but, on the other hand, you need to find the appropriate blanks. The downside is that you are limited by the size of the prepared base, for example, the diameter of the CD.
In the second case, you can make a hat of any size and proportion. The only limitation is your imagination. But here you will have to build a pattern with a pair of compasses and transfer it to the material, as well as independently make a cardboard base.
What materials and tools to prepare
In order for you to get a beautiful needle-hat with your own hands, you need to prepare the following:
- The cloth.
- Scissors.
- Threads.
- A needle.
- Filler.
- Ribbon, braid, lace and other decor.
Other accessories should be chosen depending on the method by which you will make a souvenir. If you need to draw a pattern, then you have to take a piece of paper, a pair of compasses and a pencil. In the case of working with a finished base, you will need to find the blank itself (disk and jar). Whatever option you decide to use, nothing complicated and expensive is needed. All items can be found in every home.
It is worth remembering that it is better not to use foam rubber as a filler, since the needles quickly rust in it. Take hollofiber, synthetic winterizer or the remnants of matter.
DIY needle-hat-cap: master class
We will analyze the simplest option when not patterns are used, but blanks. Find a circle for the fields. The easiest way to use an unnecessary computer disk. For a tulle, take a plastic rounded jar.
The sequence of actions will be as follows:
- Cut from the same fabric, for example, fleece, two circles.
- Glue the synthetic winterizer onto the disk.
- On the wrong side of the fabric circle, lay the disk with a padding polyester (with the filler up).
- Thread the edges of the material remaining outside the workpiece.
- Cut the bottom of a plastic jar and place the workpiece on the second circle of fabric ;.
- Gather the fabric also on a thread.
- Fill with packing material through the hole.
- Sew the top to the bottom with a hidden seam .
- Decorate the joint with tape or something else.
So, you have obtained a beautiful needlework hat with your own hands. The master class allows you to understand how easy it is to make such a souvenir. It is worth noting that the dimensions of the circles are cut in accordance with the blanks that you found, with the addition of allowances for the assembly (approximately two centimeters).
Symmetric and asymmetric option
Needle case do-it-yourself "Hat" can be made not only by different methods of sewing, but also by several models. If you opted for a product in which tulle and fields will be present, it is not difficult to arrange them relative to each other in two versions:
- Strictly centered.
- With offset.
In the first case, you will get a traditional hat, in the second - a model resembling a summer beach option, when a visor is made that covers the face from the sun. Both models, even made of the same material, will look different. So if you like to experiment, try all the ideas.
Do-it-yourself needle bar: patterns
A hat is the easiest and most win-win option for such a functional item. Sewing this souvenir is easy without a template at all. It is enough just to cut out the shape of a workpiece, for example, an CD, a circle from which a voluminous thing will be formed in the future due to assembly. This option was considered step by step above.
If you want to stitch margins and tulle from several multi-colored details, it is better to first draw patterns on paper. The basis will again be circles, and then divide them by the required number of elements of any size and shape.
The third option, when you just can’t do without a pattern, is the formation of the volume part of the cap not using the assembly on the thread, but using several elements (from two, to six or eight).
Each detail will look like a petal cut from one edge. For this option, it is better to take a finished pattern, although you can build it yourself if you did not find a sample with the appropriate number of parts or their proportions.
Refined mini beret
To make the needle box with your own hands (hat) turned out quickly, make it borderless. In this case, you will need to cut out two circles of the same diameter from cardboard. One will be used as the base frame of the beret hat itself, and the second is used to close the assembly (screed with threads) of the upper part. The principle of operation will correspond to the manner in which the hat was carried out with the fields, only here the lower part will be the same diameter as the upper one. Decorative "bottom" is easier and faster to sew than fields.
Difficult option
When you have enough time, and you can sew, a beautiful needle-needle with your own hands is obtained if you make a hat, in which the tulle is made of separate parts resembling petals in shape.
Usually the upper part of the product is made of six elements. They can be cut out of the same material, but alternating contrasting tones or simply differing in shade looks much more spectacular.
The principle of operation in this case will be as follows:
- Cut a piece of tulle from paper.
- Cut two petals from two types of fabric.
- Start stitching sequentially adjacent on the wrong side. Use machine stitching or manual stitching.
- Turn the product on your face, put the filler.
- Fields or just the base (the lower part) are performed in any way described above.
How to decorate a product
So, you have learned how to make a needle-hat with your own hands in several ways. The appearance of the souvenir depends not only on the sewing method, but also on the decorative elements used. The combination of different types of fabric and jewelry will allow you to create a spectacular gift that will be not only functional, but also very beautiful.
The easiest way to decorate is to take a satin ribbon of a contrasting shade and sew it at the junction of two elements (tulle and margins). On the one hand, this will close the junction of parts, on the other, it will decorate the craft. If you have a piece of lace or lace of the right size, use this.
In the case when the length of the ribbon allows, tie a simple bow, leaving two hanging ends or make a spectacular large bow from several loops and a decorative element in the middle.
You can use any available material (flower from a hairpin or made by yourself ), jewelry made using the technique of kanzashi or beadwork, beads.
If you want to create a truly masterpiece, try to apply not only braid or lace. Decorate the base itself, that is, the fabric. Firstly, it is easy to decorate it with the same beads, sequins, embroidered ribbons or floss. Secondly, you can make a blank using the patchwork technique. In this case, you will use the base pattern in the form of a circle, that is, you do not have to stitch the petals, creating a three-dimensional shape.
It will be enough to cut the paper blank into several parts, dividing the circle in any directions, naturally, so that it looks harmonious and beautiful. Cut parts from different shreds. In this case, it is better to use similar tones rather than contrasting tones. Sew all the elements into the circle plane. You can use a decorative stitch on the front side or decorate the seams with an additional pattern, for example, embroidered from beads. Fields, by the way, are easy to make using the same method. You are guaranteed to receive a spectacular gift.
As you can see, the do-it-yourself needle-hat is done simply and quickly. All materials used are affordable and easy to process. The basic skills of working with a fabric and a needle with a thread are enough. If you choose a beautiful material and decor, the souvenir will turn out great.