Hat Making Fun

Ok. So i just had the unexpected super privilege of meeting a hat maker. Specifically, a Touk-maker (*I hope that´s spelt correctly). She came all the way from BC, Canada to visit Paraguay with her amazing family.

So, here is a quick DIY guide of how how to make her super-hot Touks. This one is sized for a 6-9month old. You can find her fabulous creations on FB (*Elle Mikal*).

1. Pick some material. Any material. Although, preferably something stretchy or that has some "give." I had some Fleece laying around and chose that.



2. Cut off 2 8x9in squares & make sure sides are straight. Mine were a bit off and i had to fix them...

 3. One square on top of the other, boldly whipstitch the two longer sides (9inch) pieces together. The idea is to give it a "cross-stitch-like" aspect. This means that you will go all the way across and come back - therefore making an X

It should look like this when both sides are done: 

4. Turn the tube inside-out, with the visible stitches on the inside. Gather the seams of the sides together as seen in the nxt picture and do another quick whip-stitch, joining both seams. 

5. Pull the other sides in as shown in the next pictures and repeat the quick whip-stitch. Each time you will be making closing it more and more, until sealing it completely shut.

 This is what it should look like when you´ve shut it enough:

6. Turn it back around to have the right-side out. You are DONE! 

 

7. All you have left is to decorate the hat embroidering whatever design you´d like on it. I chose to embroider a bouncing ball (call you tell??)

i was so excited about making the hat that i forgot to take a picture of it before giving it away. HAHA! So much time taking a picture of each step and then forgetting to take a good shot of the final product.... only happens to the best of us, for sure!