How Do You Make A Dress-Up Hat For A Doll?
With three basic pieces – a circle, a doughnut and a rectangle – you can make festive hats that suit a doll for any season or occasion. Use a tape measure to measure the circumference of your doll’s head. Lift the circled tape measure up gently and set it down on a piece of paper; draw around it once (this is the pattern for the crown) and again (this will be the pattern for the brim). Decide how wide you want the brim of the hat to be, and draw a second circle around one of the smaller circles. Cut on both lines to make a doughnut shape. (For example, for a hat with a 1/2-inch brim, you’ll have a doughnut that’s 1/2 inch wide with a hole in the middle.) Let the tape measure unfold and measure a rectangle as long as the circumference of the first circle and as wide as you want the crown to be tall (for a 12-inch doll, 1/2 to 1 inch; for a 24-inch doll, you may want as much as 2 to 3 inches), plus 1/2 inch or so (in length) for overlap. Cut and construct the hat in whatever material you
