How To Make A Hat With A Brim

Once again iron your seam flat and topstitch on the outside.

How to make a hat with a brim. Snip the ends off at an angle. Make sure you dont cut along the inside curve just cut a straight line across the two points. Find the center back of the brim and pin the bottom center back of the band to the brim right sides together from both sides until they meet at the center front.

I used the 36 peg loom which measures about 9 inches in diameter. Then stack the large circles on top. Pin the rectangle that will be the sides of the hat to the brim of the hat starting at the center of the front and working to the left side.

Cut the brim pattern out of the paper following the inner and outer ovals as precisely as possible. When you make the brim use only one strand of yarn. If the brim shape sags while its damp prop it up with crumpled paper towels.

If you pin the whole thing it will be very bunched up and it will be much harder for you to sew. Place the hat on a flat sheet of newspaper outside or in a well-ventilated area. Boil water in a pot or kettle on the stove.

Make sure the straw material is damp all throughout then smooth and reshape any imperfections with your hands. However we need two sides. In this video I show you how to make a hat with a brim on a round knitting loom.

Leave the other side unpinned. Cut off crown set helmet on brim and trace around helmet not including the visor make your cuts to your tracing line you can always make them longer later if it is still too small spray with water while wet stretch it down over your helmet so your cowboy brim sits on the helmets visor make cuts a little longer if necessary tape on. Hold the brim of the hat over the steam until the felt is damp.