How to Make a Sweater Hat

This is a tutorial comes from I Heart Jenny's Art for how to make a hat with a bill from an old sweater. It's actually part 3 of a three part series (Part 1: Elbow Patches,  Part 2: Leg Warmers). So all you need for this project is the body of the sweater and a piece of transparency paper (you can find this at Staples).

Step 1 Preparing the Bill

Take a ball cap and trace the bill. This is your insert pattern. Now add 0.5" all the way around your insert pattern. You've now made yourself  a bill pattern.

Here's my big secret. Transparency paper. You know, like you used in school for the over head projector? It makes a great bil insert. I don't like using cardboard like some people do because it gets gross when wet. This stuff is fine. I haven't tried to wash/dry it. But otherwise it works great. So take a sheet of transparency paper and cut a bill insert out

Comments

[deChez]

Very cute! Thanks for posting this...I can see it in all sorts of fabrics. Nicely done.

[Penolopy Bulnick]

So adorable!

[jessyratfink]

This is so neat. Seems much easier than I would have thought. :)