How Do You Make Felt Hats For Crafts?
Kids will love making this top hat out of felt. Using red and white felt will give the hat a Dr. Seuss look, but any two colors will do. Today, we think of felt as a crafting material. Making hats from felt, however, is an age-old practice. Felt has been used for cowboy hats, fedoras and fashionable women’s hats. There’s even a National Felt Hat Day each Sept. 15, according to gone-ta-pott.com. Making a top hat isn’t that complicated. Anyone able to sew a straight line on a sewing machine can do it. If sewing is not an option, fabric glue will do the job. Cut four strips of felt, each measuring 4 inches by 22 inches. Cut two, 12-1/2-inch circles from one color of felt. Next, cut a 6-1/2-inch circle in the center of these two circles. Set two of the cut, contrasting strips together, one on top of the other. Sew the two strips together, lengthwise, along the edge. Leave a 1/2-inch seam allowance (the area between the seam and the edge of the fabric). If you can’t sew, use fabric glue alo
