Bath hat: sewing and pattern

When you go to the steam room you can not do without special accessories. A special place among them is occupied by Bath hat.

Product Features

It's not just fashionable and stylish, but a necessary thing to protect your head. It can be purchased at the store, but it's more interesting to create it yourself, because no one will have such an accessory.

The bath hat should reliably protect the hair, parietal area, eyes and the back of the head. For tailoring use only natural materials, preferably wool. It does not create a "greenhouse effect", it prevents the formation of dandruff. The bathrobe should match the size of your head. The material of which the product is made must not lose color and sit down when washing.

Sewing of a bath hat "Budenovka". Pattern

Such a fashionable and practical accessory can be made within an hour. For tailoring does not require special skill and experience. You need patience and a little imagination.

Measure the volume of the head with a centimeter tape. It must pass over the forehead and crown. The depth of the product is measured from the ear to the crown. The number that will be obtained when taking measurements is divided into six. You will get a number of wedges.

Take one wedge and redraw the outline to paper. You should get an elongated isosceles triangle. Round out its ribs to make the product sit better on the head. You will receive a detail of the pattern of a bath hat. Each of them should be duplicated.

Advice! Do it on a special paper for patterns - graph paper. You can also use cardboard or a rigid transparent film.

Also draw on paper:

• A visor (2 pieces);
• Loop (2 pcs.);
• Lapel (2 pcs.).

Cut out the details and transfer to the material.

Advice! If you took a not very thick fabric: linen or cotton, then it can be folded twice to increase the thickness of the product. Note that with a high humidity, natural fabrics sit around 30-40%. To ensure that the product does not become small with time, add to the depth of the cap 1 cm, and on the sides 10-15 mm.

Sew the hat

You can machine the product by hand or on a sewing machine. A thin fabric is easy to machine. Felt or thick felt should be hand stitched. The holes for the stitching will have to be made with an awl. Then sew all the wedges. Pratachayte visor and loop.

Felting the bath hats

There are two types of felting: dry and wet. We will consider the second, because the former requires more experience and skill.

You do not need special tools for work - you can find everything at home. The only thing that you have to buy is the sheep's wool itself. To give the product shape, you need a piece of dense linoleum or cellophane. You will also need:

• A bag for washing;
• Soap solution (1 part liquid and 4 soaps);
• spray;
• 3-liter bank (this will replace the pig).

Stages of work

• Remove the measurements from the head, as indicated above. When felting, the size should be increased by 30%, since the wool always shrinks. The easiest way is to take a ready-made knit cap and use it as a template.
• From a whole piece of wool, separate the thin fibers and lay them on a pattern in different directions. It is necessary for the material to bond better. When stacking wool, do not be afraid to go beyond the edges of the template. Everything superfluous then will turn up. To stack it is necessary very densely, that in no event there were gaps. Try to keep the amount of wool throughout the area the same.
• Consider the future product in the light. If there are holes, then they need to be closed. The thickness of the future felt should be the same everywhere.
• Spread the pimply film. Place the workpiece in a laundry bag and place it on the film. Cover with a soap solution using a spray gun.
• Pat on the workpiece until a persistent foam forms. Walk on it with a rolling pin.

• Remove the film. Turn the workpiece over and place it on the template. Superfluous tuck under the pattern. Hold it down.
• Whip the foam and soak the product well. Mnite his hands, until it stops decaying into fibers, and becomes a whole cloth.
• Put the future hat on the disc and smooth the edges. Leave to dry.
• Draw in a basin of cold water. Rinse the product. Now drain the cold and add hot water. Alternate the fluid at different temperatures several times. Press the extra. Do not twist. Return it to the pig or bottle. Give the bath cap a shape and leave it to dry away from central heating batteries and open sunlight.
• After the product becomes dry, trim all the excess, forming a helmet. Zadekoriruyte his pieces of colored wool, embellishments of felt.

Types of wool for felting

Before you buy wool, you need to know about its varieties. To make bath hats with your own hands, you can use:

• Cardedos. The second name is woolen wool. Products from it are thick enough. Good for beginners, since it's very easy to play it. Suitable for felting both wet and dry.
• Sliver. This is a carded kind of yarn. There are no hard hairs in it. Unpainted, that's why it's cheaper than color analogues. An excellent choice for felting bath hats.
• Colored wool coat. A qualitative and expensive kind of material. Has thin unidirectional fibers. Often used for finishing bath hats.
• Merino wool. Elite material. Used in the manufacture of fine things. It makes expensive designer hats.

Working with wool is a pleasure. Natural material is pleasant to the touch, environmentally friendly and gives room for imagination. Weld the product out of it faster than tie from yarn or sew the same from the fabric.

Welding or sewing bath hats can be of various shapes. For example, popular products in the form of watermelon, pumpkin, ladybug.