Bath hat: tailoring and pattern

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When going to the steam room you can not do without special accessories. A special place among them is occupied by a bath hat.

Product Features

This is not just fashionable and stylish, but a necessary thing to protect your head. It can be purchased at the store, but it is more interesting to create it yourself, because no one will have such an accessory.

A bath hat should reliably protect the hair, the parietal zone, the eyes and the back of the head. For tailoring, only natural materials are used, preferably wool. It does not create a "greenhouse effect", prevents the formation of dandruff. The bath hat should fit the size of your head. The material from which the product is made should not lose color and shrink when washed.

Sewing a bath hat "Budenovka". Pattern

Such a fashionable and practical accessory can be made within an hour. Tailoring does not require special skills and experience. You will need patience and a little imagination.

Measure your head with a measuring tape. It should pass over the forehead and crown. The depth of the product is measured from the ear to the crown of the head. Number,which will turn out when taking measurements, must be divided by six. You will receive the number of wedges.

Take one wedge and redraw the outline on paper. You should end up with an elongated isosceles triangle. Round off its ribs so that the product sits better on the head. You will receive a bath hat pattern detail. Each of them should be duplicated.

Advice! Do it on special paper for patterns - graph paper. Cardboard or rigid transparencies can also be used.

Also draw on paper:

• visor (2 pcs.);
• loop (2 pcs.);
• lapel (2 pcs.).

Cut out the details and transfer to the material.

Advice! If you took a not very thick fabric for sewing: linen or cotton, then it can be folded in half to increase the thickness of the product. Please note that in high humidity, natural fabrics shrink by about 30-40%. In order for the product not to become small for you over time, add 1 cm to the depth of the cap, and 10-15 mm on the sides.

Sew the hat

You can sew the product manually or on a sewing machine. Thin fabric is easy to process on the machine. Felt or thick felt will have to be stitched by hand. Holes for stitching will need to be made with an awl. Next, sew all the wedges. Sew on peak and loop.

Felting a bath hat

There are two types of felting: dry and wet. We'll look at the second one as the first one requires more experience and skill.

You don't need any special tools to work - everything can be found at home. The only thingyou will have to purchase - this is the sheep's wool itself. To give the product a shape, you need a piece of dense linoleum or cellophane. You will also need:

• washing bag;
• soap solution (1 part liquid and 4 soaps);
• atomizer;
• three-liter jar (this will replace the blank).

Steps of work

• Take your head measurements as above. When felting, the size should be increased by 30%, since wool always shrinks. The easiest way is to take a ready-made knitted hat and use it as a template.
• From a whole piece of wool, separate the thin fibers and lay them on the pattern in different directions. This is necessary so that the material adheres better. When laying wool, do not be afraid to go beyond the edges of the template. Everything superfluous will then turn up. It is necessary to lay very tightly so that in no case there are gaps. Try to keep the amount of wool over the entire area the same.
• Consider the future product in the light. If there are holes, then they need to be closed. The thickness of the future felt should be the same everywhere.
• Spread the bubble wrap. Place the workpiece in a laundry bag and place on a film. Cover with soapy water using a spray bottle.
• Pat the workpiece until a stable foam is formed. Walk on it with a rolling pin.

• Remove the film. Turn the workpiece over and place it on the template. Tuck the excess under the pattern. Press down.
• Whip the lather and lather well. Knead it with your hands until it stops falling apart.fiber, but becomes a solid canvas.
• Put the future hat on a blank and smooth the edges. Leave to dry.
• Fill a bowl of cold water. Rinse the item. Now drain the cold water and add hot water. Alternate liquid of different temperatures several times. Squeeze out the excess. Don't twist. Return it to a blank or a bottle. Shape the bath hat and leave to dry away from central heating and direct sunlight.
• After the product is dry, cut off all excess, forming a helmet. Decorate it with pieces of multi-colored wool, felt decorations.

Types of wool for felting

Before you buy wool, you need to know about its varieties. To make bath hats with your own hands, you can use:

• Carded. Its second name is "woolen wool". Products from it are quite thick. Good for beginners, as it is very easy to roll it. Suitable for both wet and dry felting.
• Sliver. This is a combed yarn. It does not have hard hairs. Unpainted, and therefore cheaper than colored counterparts. An excellent choice for felting bath hats.
• Colored combed wool. High quality and expensive looking material. It has thin unidirectional fibers. Often used to trim bath hats.
• Merino wool. Elite material. Used in the manufacture of thin things. They make expensive designer hats out of it.

Working with wool is pure pleasure. natural materialpleasant to the touch, environmentally friendly and gives room for imagination. Knitting a product out of it is faster than knitting from yarn or sewing a similar one from fabric.

Felting or sewing bath hats can be of various shapes. For example, products in the form of watermelon, pumpkin, ladybug are popular.