From top to a reversible hat

It’s been a while since I had the idea to do a hat to wear in winter, I wanted a deep hat that would cover the whole head including the ears, to protect them from the wind, and with a brim for the sun but also for rainy days, so my glasses don’t get water droplets.

After making several prototypes, some of which I rejected outright, and having used the others, I decided which one best met my requirements and this was the chosen one.

I made the hat reversible just to show you how to do it because in my case I will always wear it the same way, with the denim side on the outside.

I made it using a piece of jeans from a pair of jeans and the fabric of a cotton top.

I've used it several times and I'm quite satisfied, I've even walked with it in the rain and it protected my glasses well so they didn't get a single drop of water. Anyone who wears glasses knows how unpleasant it is to have droplets in front of your eyes.

For those who want to put this idea into practice, here are some pointers

These are the hat templates, the templates are folded, they can be placed like this on the folded fabric or you can fold the paper and cut out the complete template.

This template makes a hat with a diameter of 60 cm, if you want you can reduce the size. The easiest way to reduce it is to divide the diameter by 12, take that measurement and subtract it from the width of each fabric piece, so you get the value of the template excess and you can cut it on the center side (blue line in the photograph). You will then need to redraw a template with the folded paper to obtain a complete section.

 

For example for a diameter of 56 cm:

56 cm : 12 = 4.7 cm

5 - 4.7 = 0.3 cm = 3 mm this is the value that will need to be removed from the template.

Alternatively, you can design a new template by reducing the 3mm on both curved sides of the section. If you don't want to mess with the template, you can put an elastic band or pass a ribbon inside the fabric strip to gather the hat.

This brim is quite big, if you want you can reduce it or use another pattern to make a smaller brim that looks more like a cap.

Note that if you are going to reuse fabric try to find the thread of the fabric so as not to cut the pieces on the bias, so you don’t run the risk of the fabric stretching and deforming the hat.

To cut the pieces on the denim I made a mark on one of the threads of the fabric to guide me, this is because it is very easy to fall into the temptation of following the edge of the fabric and it may not be straight, and you end up with pieces on the bias.