3 Simple Ways to
Share What You Make

With Instructables you can share what you make with the world — and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.

PhotosPhotos

Share one or more photos of a project, recipe, or whatever you've made, quickly and easily.

Step by StepStep-By-Step

Share your step-by-step photos with text instructions of what you made so others can do it too!

VideoVideo

Share your how-to video. You'll need your embed code from a video site such as YouTube.

Cold Head Days

Cold Head Days
Man, hair really helps keep you warm... but hats do too! This hat took about 20 minutes to make, including taking the pictures (thanks Matt). It's warm and silly, two awesome qualities of a hat.

Tools & materials:
  • 3 pieces of warm stretchy fabric in contrasting colors. You only need a couple square feet of each; the pieces shown could have made 3 or 4 hats like this
  • tape measure (or string, in a pinch)
  • scissors
  • sewing machine & thread
 
Remove these adsRemove these ads by Signing Up
 

Step 1Measure & cut

Measure & cut
«
  • IMGP3962.JPG
  • IMGP3964.JPG
  • IMGP3969.JPG
Measure your head. Divide the result by 3 and add a bit for seam allowance. This is the width of each hat section to cut.

Lay out your fabric pieces in a pile. The parts are symmetric so it doesn't matter which side of the fabric is up (and your fabric may not have a right & wrong side anyway).

Cut a pointy shape with divots, as pictured (it's not hard to understand, just hard to describe). You'll almost certainly make the hat too long, for some reason it's hard to underestimate the height of the crown. This is fine, we'll cut off any excess later.
« Previous StepDownload PDFView All StepsNext Step »
9 comments
Nov 19, 2008. 4:14 PMWeissensteinburg says:
Cool hat =]

Why'd you cut your hair?
Nov 19, 2008. 4:20 PMWeissensteinburg says:
Ah, I see your other ible...it was an accident?
Nov 28, 2008. 1:34 AMscafool says:
cut hair in spring??? good recipe for sunburned ears!!! done it, and lived to regret it
Nov 28, 2008. 1:35 AMscafool says:
cut hair in fall and wear hats
Nov 19, 2008. 5:29 PMWeissensteinburg says:
Who are the cool kids?
Nov 19, 2008. 7:17 PMRobotrix says:
just look for anyone bald!
Nov 20, 2008. 6:33 AMNewblit says:
UMM>... interesting...... Definitely original to say the least lol.
Nov 19, 2008. 8:46 PMcaitlinsdad says:
Don't you traditionally add little tinker bells at the end of the points on this kind of hat and go mock the King and Queen?

Pro

Get More Out of Instructables

Already have an Account?

close

All Steps Viewing
View all steps of an Instructable on the same page when you're a Pro Member.

Upgrade to Pro today!
242
Followers
52
Author:rachel
I'm a founding member of Noisebridge (https://noisebridge.net), a hackerspace in San Francisco, and Ace Monster Toys (http://acemonstertoys.org/), in Oakland. If you're in the area, stop by and say h...
more »