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Cindy
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Today's project came together all at once. For days I waited for any kind of inspiration and then finally yesterday I started playing with the idea of making a hat from some of the hubbies old jeans. I searched the internet for a pattern to work with and ended up with this pattern for a wide brim hat.
The brim piece needed to be made into smaller pieces to fit on the jeans which required a little pattern alteration so instead of one piece the brim became 5 pieces that had to be sewn together.
Here is where it gets a little weird. :-)
I decided to experiment with making an oil cloth finish.
So.....
I melted some candle wax onto the fabric.
And then used some wax paper and a iron to finish melting the wax and fully saturate the fabric.
I applied this process to all of the exterior pieces of the hat and then sewed the the hat together.
I thought that the addition of the wax would make the pieces harder to sew and it does make them stiffer as well as water repellent but they were surprisingly easy to sew together.
Happy Upcycling,
To make your own custom hat pattern check out my tutorial here.
