#this is a fair way to get me to be less scared of hatmaking

[badassindistress]

My new year's resolution this year was hats. Make em, wear em, encourage others to wear them...

I'm going to be playing the galant gentleman at a castle picknick at the end of the month, which of course must include a hat to wear at a rakish angle.

So I made one!

I bought this felt H&M men's hat for a whole euro at the koninginnemarkt. I took off the inner and outer band and scratched off the glue.

The hat was too large, so I measured how long the crown ought to be for me and forced the brim up until it was my size. I pinned and stitched up the three corners to make it the distinctive tricorn shape and wet the fold to let it dry in the correct shape. I put a round bowl in the wetted crown to ease out the fedora shape.

When this seemed to fit nicely, I steamed it and wore it for an afternoon while I pottered about the house, to give the neighbours something to wonder at.

I got a box of offcut gold braid from a lampshade maker a while ago, so I stitched on two layers of gold trim to make it fancy.

This hat was such a success and so much easier than I anticipated. It really finishes the outfit too, 10/10 can recommend!