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Hat Bases: Simple Decorating Required tools and
supplies:
- Detailing scissors
- Fabric
scissors
- Fast-grab, quick-dry
white craft glue that dries clear
- Small piece of aluminum
foil to use as a glue pot
- Artist's paint brush to
apply glue
- Hot glue gun
- Pink 1" lace
(6 inches)
- 1/16" wide
pink satin ribbon
- Small square
(6" square) of thin stretchy pink satin
- 2 lengths of
5" wide x 16" long pink small-hole tutu netting
- 5 pink tiny
craft roses
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1. Use the pill box
form that comes with the Paper Minis Millinery kit
to create a Queen Elizabeth II style hat. If you
don't have pink or other appropriately colored lace,
mix a little bit of acrylic craft paint with water
for fabric dye.
I used a little pink
and a tiny little bit of yellow to create a watery
dye. |
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2. Here is the dyed
length of lace 1" lace. |
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3. Take the pill
box hat form and cut 1" lengths of pink ribbon.
This form comes with the Millinery Shop Kit
#a1is012, but you could substitute a bottle cap. Try
to find a small bottle cap. |
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4. Paint glue to
the top and part way down the side. |
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5. Glue strips
of ribbon to top of hat |
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6. Press edges
down. You can trim a bit if you prefer. |
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7. Apply glue to
the sides of the hat. |
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8. Start at the
top of the hat and spin ribbon around the hat until
all is covered. Glue end into the inside of the hat. |
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9. Glue the edge of
the lace around the bottom of the hat. You may want
to make it a little loose so that you can flip the
lace upward. I used the hot glue gun to adhere the
lace. |
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10. Use a little
glue to finish the ends together. |
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11. The next hat
is the 2nd form that comes with the kit. This
form comes with the Millinery Shop Kit #a1is012, but
you could substitute a bottle cap and glue a
cardboard circle with a hole cut in the center to
its base. |
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12. Use the glue gun
to glue the satin to the top of the hat. Next work
around the side of the hat, gluing fabric down with
the glue gun. Fabric does not need to be completely
smooth and flat. Also remember no one is really
wearing the hat! |
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13. Next glue to the
top of the brim and turn over hat. Cut the excess
fabric so there is about a 5/8" fabric border. |
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14. Proceed to
glue fabric edges to the inside of the hat and cover
bottom surface of brim. It won't be smooth, nor does
it need to be smooth. |
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15. Take two
length of the netting (about 16" x 5") and place on
top of each other centered. Twist twice in the
center of length. |
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16. Use the glue gun
and loosely glue the netting to the top of the hat.
Also a little on the back to so there is a layer of
netting covering the back of the supposed wearer. |
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17. Cut off the stems of 5
craft roses and glue-gun them to the front of the
hat, beginning with the center flower. |
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18. I used a length of white
paper covered wire to pinch the netting as shown
here. Trim the ends of the netting as shown. |
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19. Here are some samples of
how to make easy hats for a shop. Use craft store
straw hats and trim off a major edge of the brim, if
the hat is not to scale. Use satin, lace, ribbon,
feathers, craft findings to decorate hats. |