How to Sew an EASY Beginners Sun Hat for Babies, Toddlers, Kids or Adults! PDF Sewing Pattern

Today I'm going to show you how to sew an easy reversible bucket hat bonnet. The pattern is below in a link in the description box or if you're watching from our website alohasewingcompany.com, welcome and sew along. This pattern comes in babies all the way to adult sizes. It is reversible if you want it to be and they are optional but you can also add some neck or chin strap ties to it. I'll show you how to do that but you can also use ribbon if you don't feel like sewing those. After you have your pattern pieces printed out, go ahead and trace them onto your fabric and cut them out. Each pattern piece will tell you how many you need to cut. I am using the pink polka dot fabric for the inside of my hat and this unicorn fabric for my outer hat. To add a little bit of structure to the brim of my hat, I added some one-sided fusible fleece that I cut about a centimeter smaller than the pattern piece. I added that to the back side of both of my brim pieces. Now we're going to go ahead and place your two brim fabric pieces right sides together and using a quarter inch seam allowance, go ahead and sew right across the top of both of those pieces. You can see I used a quarter inch right here and right here. Now you want to go ahead and open that up and you can see how it's the brim of the hat. Once you've done that, you want to open up the seams and press those flat like I've done here. Now go ahead and get the two brim fabric pieces for your outer hat and do the same exact thing. Here is mine sewn. Now I'm just going to open up those seams and press them flat. We do this so that way when you put the two inner and the outer hat pieces together, you don't have any bulky seams showing through your hat. Now we're going to work on attaching the brim of the hat you see here with the crown that we just sewed together. To do that, you first want to quarter this off where we're going to attach it to the crown. You're just going to fold it in half and make two small slits right there at the fold and that makes four equal quarters of your brim of the hat. Then you want to go ahead and do the same thing with the crown of your hat. Fold it in half and across the bottom side of the crown, go ahead and make your slits right there where the fold is, just big enough to where you can see it, not too big at all. The crown bottom is the widest part. You can see I've quartered this off by making the two slits and then we're using the two side seams as the other two parts that we're going to match up. Now with our brim wrong side facing up, we're going to fold our crown and put it right inside the middle just like I'm doing here. Match up the two side seams of the crown of your hat to the brim of your hat and pin or clip that in place. Then you're going to match up the slits of the crown and the brim and match those together and pin or clip those in place. Then you're going to go ahead and add a couple more pins or clips and we're going to sew all the way around the circle that we have created. Now let's take this over to our sewing machine and I'll show you how I sew this. I take this piece off of my machine, most machines can do that, so that way I can slide my hat right over the arm of this machine. Then making sure that the raw edges of your hat are always lined up, start and stop with a back stitch and then sew all the way around the diameter of this hat. Make sure that you are keeping those raw edges lined up like I mentioned and rotate this all the way around as you go. Now that we have this sewn on, we want to go ahead and trim down our seam allowance just a little bit. If you have pinking shears, I would recommend using those. The next thing that we're going to do is go ahead and add the circular top piece to the top of our hat. To do that, we're just going to do it pretty much the same way. We want to quarter this off so that we make it into four equal pieces that we can match up with the crown of the hat. Fold it in half and go ahead and make your small slits right at the top and the bottom, very tiny, just big enough for you to see them. Then you're going to fold those and match those together and make two more slits for your sides. After you've done that, you want to go ahead and go to the top piece of your hat here. Put the side seams together so that you can get the left and the right side of the hat and make your small slits there so that you can quarter off the top of this part as well. Then we want to go ahead and put this right side out and your circular top piece of your hat, you want to have it face down and now you're going to match up each of these four slits with the four marks that you have on your fabric here, the two side seams and the slits on the top and the bottom that we just made a minute ago. Pin or clip that in place all the way around and then we're going to go and sew it together using about a one centimeter seam allowance. As you are sewing these together, make sure that you keep the rest of your fabric out of the way. This is the most trying part of sewing this in my opinion just because it's circular and sometimes that can be more difficult for some people to sew, but you can totally do it. Just make sure that you sew this slowly around and make sure that your top and bottom fabrics are always aligned together and rotate the fabric so that it stays out of the way of your sewing needle as you need. Now I've got mine all sewn, I'm going to trim down the seam allowance a little bit. I'm just going to use my scissors. It's okay if you have pinking shears, you can use those too and then we are done sewing the outer hat. You're going to do the same thing for your inner hat, but if you want to add some optional ties or a chin strap, let me show you how to do that too. You're going to make two different ties so that you can tie these together and to do that you want to lay the wrong side up and then fold the short end of the fabric inwards about one centimeter which is about three-eighths of an inch and press it flat with your iron. Then you're going to fold these together and iron and press this all the way down so that when you open this fabric you have a nice center crease. That's going to be your guide. Get the bottom part of your fabric and fold it up right to that crease and press that down with your iron all the way down your strap fabric. You're going to do the same thing with the other side, folding it down and ironing that to the middle crease as well. You're going to want to go ahead and fold these two together so that you fold in half one more time and press that with your iron. Then you're going to take it to your sewing machine and sew using about a one-eighth of an inch seam allowance going all the way down both of your straps and don't forget you need to make two. Now you want to get the raw edge of the strap, not the folded side, the raw edge and you're going to match it up to the raw edge for the inside of your hat right against that side seam here. Let me show you. Pin or clip this in place and then you're just going to take it to your sewing machine and put a little basting stitch to hold these in place. A basting stitch is just a little stitch right close to the edge, maybe about an eighth of an inch just to hold these ties in place. Once you've done that, go ahead and finish sewing up the crown and the top of your hat exactly like you did the other hat for the outside. Here is mine all sewn. Now you can go ahead and flip this right side out just to make sure that you caught those ties and everything looks nice and evenly sewn. You can see the basting stitch does not show when you are finished sewing these ties into place and now we're going to work on putting these two hats, the inner hat and the outer hat together. Now this is the inner hat for me and I'm going to go ahead and get my outer hat right here, flip it inside out and then you're going to stack these two right on top of each other matching the side seams together. Pin or clip that in place. Next I go ahead and I tie my ties at the top of the hat so that way when I'm sewing these two hats together those ties don't accidentally get caught in the way. Now after you have that done, go ahead and pin or clip the other side seam, adjust your hat as you need to and then pin or clip all the way around the outer brim of your hat. If you need to quarter this off to make sure it's nice and even, go ahead and do that just like we did before but I don't feel like it's necessary at this step because it kind of lays nicely and flat together once you have those side seams matched up. Once you are done pinning or clipping, I like to put two different color pin or clips somewhere around the brim of the hat so that way it reminds me not to sew that area closed. I leave about a two and a half to three inch opening that I do not sew closed so that I can flip this right side out when I'm done. Go ahead using one centimeter or three eighths of an inch, sew all the way around the brim of your hat leaving that two and a half to three inch opening. You can see I have done that here. Now you want to go to that hole opening at the bottom right here and flip your fabric right side out. Be careful not to be too tough, you don't want to pull any stitches out and just go ahead and even that out really nicely. You're going to have to use your finger or a chopstick or whatever tool that you have to go into that hole opening and smoothen out all of your seams. Once you've done that just make sure that the brim of your hat is laying nice and flat right there at the seam for the top and the bottom of the hat so that way we can top stitch around the outer brim right when we're finished. To do that I just go ahead and go all the way around the brim of the hat and put some clips making sure that everything's nice and even and laying flatly like I want it. You also want to make sure you go to that hole opening that you left to turn this right side out and let's work on closing that. To do that put your fingers right inside of it and pull it apart. That should flip that raw edge right inside the hat and then you're just going to press it with your fingers and pin or clip this closed. After you have done that you can press it flat with your iron if you need to. I normally don't but if you need to you can and then you're going to take it to your sewing machine and sew all the way around the brim of your hat starting right there at that opening using about a 1 8th of an inch seam allowance. You want to stay right close to the edge there so that way it catches that hole opening and it looks nice and seamless. Here is mine all sewn and now we are completely done sewing this cap. It is so cute really easy. I have four kids and you know this spring and summer heat in North Carolina right now can be pretty brutal so we always wear these when we're playing outside. And just a full disclaimer be sure to be careful with the neck or chin straps for your children. If they are under three years old it's not really recommended that you use those neckties because they can be a choking hazard. I hope you enjoyed my sewing tutorial. Please make sure to like this video and subscribe to my YouTube channel. 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