Hats with their own hands from improvised materials. Hat for carnival costumes. Ideas for needlework

Do you like to learn new kinds of needlework? Learn to make hats with your own hands from improvised materials. Some options look impressive, but they are very simple. The skills you will be able to use for making carnival costumes, headdresses for textile dolls or just fashion accessories and original gifts.

Hats with your own hands from improvised materials

If you are a creative person and like to do handicrafts, you should like this kind of activity, especially since there are a lot of opportunities in this direction. You can make a hat from:

• Paper;
• Cardboard;
• Fabric;
• Newspaper tubes;
• Combining several techniques at the same time.

So, there are a lot of options how to make hats with your own hands from improvised materials. The choice depends on the time available, the purpose of the manufacture and, of course, what you have left.

Materials and Tools

Want you to have a beautiful hat made of paper, cardboard, fabric? Then be patient and turn on the fantasy, plus all you need is this:

• pencil;
• Ruler;
• compass;
• scissors;
• glue;
• the cloth;
• a piece of chalk;
• Pins;
• Needle and thread;
• Decorative elements (beads, ribbons, bows, lace, flowers);
• Base material (paper, cardboard, newspaper tubes).

The simplest options are easy to do in just half an hour.

Harness for cone hat

Whichever version of the headdress you choose, the foundation will still have to be done. As a rule, the role of the frame is made by a hat made of cardboard or paper. You can make an accessory of a triangular shape in two ways:

1. Collapse from a rectangular sheet.
2. Run out of the semicircle.

In the first case, when the paper will be twisted from the sheet, it is necessary to cut off the excess on the lower side. The second option assumes the initial execution of the preform of a certain shape, namely in the form of a semicircle. The bottom, thus, turns out equal and does not require cropping.

The seam is usually first stapled with a stapler, so that you can correct the size if you make a mistake for the first time. The bracket is pulled out, and the base is fixed elsewhere. If the form suits you, you can glue the seam. In addition, it is usually tried to make it invisible, tucked inside or beautifully zadekorirovat.

How to make a hat-cylinder blank

If you need this form, you will need to somewhat complicate the technology (compared to the previous one) and perform more actions. A hat-cylinder made of cardboard or paper will always consist of three elements:

1. Twisted in the form of a pipe sheet of the right size.
2. Fields.
3. The upper "cover".

As for the fields, they can be performed for the product in the form of a cone.

To make a hat-cylinder, you need to work like this:

1. Take a string or string and measure the circumference of the head in the appropriate place so that the future hat does not fail and is not tight.
2. Cut the rectangle of the desired length (which you got on the rope), taking into account the dimensions of the seam. The width of the sheet should correspond to the height of the hat. Take the cylinder out of the blank and glue the seams.
3. Draw a circle using the compass. The length of the circle will correspond to the indices from points 1 and 2. Draw another circle with a slightly larger diameter. This distance is necessary for the gluing of parts.
4. Perform the previous action, but on a larger sheet of paper, because, in addition to the inner circle, you will need to hold an external one. It will limit the size of the fields.
5. Take both the parts made in the two previous steps, and on those parts that go under the glue, cut all around the perimeter a short distance. It depends on the size of your product. If you make a hat for a doll, and it's all no more than 10 cm, then you need to make incisions in a few millimeters. If the accessory is intended for an adult, the distance between the incisions can be selected about 1.5-2 cm.
6. Now bend the notched parts in the desired direction and glue the seams.

All is ready. It remains only to paint the base or decorate in any other way.

The hat from the newspaper tubes

Everyone knows that waste paper is a junk material, but not everyone knows that color, and black and white sheets can be used to make spectacular souvenirs and even headdresses. Not everyone will be able to guess that you are wearing a paper hat. Such a thing will resemble a straw hat due to the characteristic weaving. By color, you can make it any, either by pre-painting the sheets, or by creating a colored pattern on the finished product. So, the work is as follows:

1. First you will still need to make a frame of the appropriate shape and size, although you can use a ready-made hat or even something else, such as a bucket or a pot.
2. Now you need to prepare the tubes. They are twisted from sheets of newspapers or magazines with the help of a spoke or a round skewer. Try to do so that one end of the tube turns out a little more. This will make it easy to increase the length of the material during the weaving. Joints, as well as the seams of individual elements, are glued.
3. When everything is ready for the beginning of the weaving, start to work. Technologies can be used different, but their meaning is the same. First, take a few tubes, folded crosswise, then you need one or two more for braiding the "frame." So the bottom is made in the form of a circle.
4. Using the chosen base, continue plaiting the vertical part of the crown;
5. Weave fields.
6. Color the finished product if the sheets have not been processed. After drying, you can polkarovat surface. This will give an effective shine and make the hat water resistant.
7. Now it's worth to decorate the accessory with an additional decor: flowers made of nylon, satin ribbons, beadwork or any other elements.

Such a hat can be presented as a souvenir, interior decoration or beach attribute.

How to sew a hat for a costume

Any of the frames, the manufacture of which is described above, can be covered with a cloth. If you need some non-standard form, for example, in the form of a mushroom, fruit, vegetable or small animal, you will have to find an appropriate pattern or build it yourself. In fact, you can easily sew very unusual and original hats with your own hands from improvised materials. The easiest way is to use fleece or felt, as they hold the shape well, cover without any problems, they do not require the processing of seams, they can be stitched decoratively even on the front side, and small parts allow gluing to the surface. If you are not a beginner in the field of sewing, choose any pattern and material and create a headpiece for a carnival costume or simply an elegant unusual accessory for a holiday.

So, you saw what kind of original hats can be made easily and quickly. Surprise friends with an unusual accessory or make a headpiece for a carnival costume.