Sarah Stewart
Instructor Deanne Dewitt
TMA 468-R Millinery
13 November 2013
Abstract
I made a hat
that looks like a cake for my Fosshape hat project. I at first did my research,
which was really just to look at cakes and see which ones I wanted to imitate,
but I also looked up other cake hats to show what I was trying to make. I then
drew up my design and the basic idea of what I wanted my hat to look like. Then
I made my pattern, cut it out, and cut out the Fosshape. Then I sewed it
together by machine. Then I steamed it on a head block and later a roll of
paper towels to get the desired shape out of it. At this point, I was ready to
add the fabric, and I was originally intending to make the hat out of felt and
make cute little fruits out of the felt to go on top. However, I changed my
mind because I decided I wanted the cake hat to be classy, not cute and
childish, and I found an elegant cream rayon fabric, which I envisioned
bunching really well into a frosting texture, and I found a pleated, shear,
light fabric as well, which I thought would look great as a bottom frosting, so
I decided to use those fabrics, which made my hat look totally different from
my design, but still achieved the bunching frosting texture I had in my
original design. After selecting these fabrics, I cut out the crown and top of
my hat in the cream fabric and made the crown three times longer than the
actual hat, and I basted it in four vertical lines and pulled the fabric back
down to the four inches and put it onto the hat. Then I cut out and added the
inner crown and top lining, and glued them in place using the spray glue. Then
I sewed on the brim in the cream fabric, after which I sewed on the pleated
shear fabric. Then I sewed on the bottom brim lining and at last my cake hat
was finished and ready to eat . . .
wear.
Bibliography
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Supplies on hat:
Fosshape, shear pleated fabric, cream rayon
Sarah Stewart
Instructor Deanne Dewitt
TMA 468-R Millinery
17 December 2013
Fosshape
Hat Construction
Supplies: Fosshape,
cream rayon, spray glue, and the usual sewing supplies
Directions:
1. Obtain
supplies.
2. Cut
out pattern leaving no seam allowance in fosshape.
3. Sew
crown into circle that fits the circle on the pieces.
4. Sew
crown to tip.
5. Sew
crown to brim.
6. Now,
steam the fosshape. Put something under it that will make it create the shape
and size desired. It will shrink and harden into the shape it is steamed into.
I used a roll of paper towels to create the shape of the tip and crown, and the
table top to create the flat brim.
7. Once
the desired shape is achieved, cut out the pattern with an extra inch and a
half on the inner circle of the brim. Cut out two pieces of each. Except for
the crown. Cut one crown and then take a piece that is four times the height of
the crown and the same in every other dimension.
8. Take
the piece that is four times the height of the crown, and baste it in four
places that are equidistant. Sew the tip to this piece.
9. Now,
sew the brim top and bottom onto the fosshape, using stab stitch.
10. Now
gather the piece from step #8 on its basted stitches on all until it fits the
crown and tip of the hat perfectly.
11. Sew
these pieces together using stab stitch and turning the raw edge under.
12. Sew
the second tip piece and the exactly cut crown piece together so that they will
fit inside the hat as the inner lining.
13. Now
spray the glue on the inside of the hat.
14. Put
the lining in it, gluing it in.
15. Turn
the raw edge under and sew that bottom of the crown the bottom of the brim.
16. Add
any decorations, such as lace, sheer pleated fabrics, or jewelry piece to
decorate the hat.
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