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Step 2Prep work...
You should have your work space, a string or 2 of lights, a hat, your pen knife, and your glue gun plugged in and getting warm.
Take your hat and turn it inside out. All the work and wiring goes inside the hat, so it is way easier if you just turn it inside out now. On some hats the white ruff is sewn to the red so that you can't invert it easily. Just use some small scissors or the pen knife to undo the seam. It is usally just a couple stiches, if any, in the back along the seam.
In the hat on this page, I will use 2 strings, but more on that later. Just look at the white ruff for now.
The hat will lay flat on the table effectively giving you 2 sides, front and back. Take the total number of lights on the string and divide by 2. 1/2 on the front and 1/2 on the back.
For my string of 15 lights I placed 7 on the front and 8 on the back. Just place marks randomly on the fabric with a marker. You need to place a couple close to the edges and not clump them all in the middle to much. When you have marked the first side, flip it over and mark the other side now too. This will make gluing the LEDs in place go faster.
The battery case tucks inside the ruff when it is folded up. Or, you can velcro it up into the hat by opening the seam at the back of the hat where the red material meets the white ruff material and sliding the battery case through.
Take your hat and turn it inside out. All the work and wiring goes inside the hat, so it is way easier if you just turn it inside out now. On some hats the white ruff is sewn to the red so that you can't invert it easily. Just use some small scissors or the pen knife to undo the seam. It is usally just a couple stiches, if any, in the back along the seam.
In the hat on this page, I will use 2 strings, but more on that later. Just look at the white ruff for now.
The hat will lay flat on the table effectively giving you 2 sides, front and back. Take the total number of lights on the string and divide by 2. 1/2 on the front and 1/2 on the back.
For my string of 15 lights I placed 7 on the front and 8 on the back. Just place marks randomly on the fabric with a marker. You need to place a couple close to the edges and not clump them all in the middle to much. When you have marked the first side, flip it over and mark the other side now too. This will make gluing the LEDs in place go faster.
The battery case tucks inside the ruff when it is folded up. Or, you can velcro it up into the hat by opening the seam at the back of the hat where the red material meets the white ruff material and sliding the battery case through.
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