Remember how I told you I was on a sweater re-purposing kick? Still on it.
My mom dropped off two huge bags of sweaters she no longer wears. Score! After I raided them and took a few to add to my wardrobe I started using the rest to make stuff. I made another sweater puppet and a teddy bear. Sadly the teddy bear came out, well, just plain sad. He is not destined to be blogged about, but my newest creation is.
I made the easiest toddler sweater hat ever. Seriously. Gymboree has several sweater hats in their fall line that are super cute, but why buy one for Little Diva when I can make one for free in 5 minutes?
Yes, 5 minutes. It would be just as easy to make one for an adult.
First you need a sweater.
I traced a bowl to get a perfect circle, then I cut it out. If you are making this adult sized, use a dinner plate.
Then I cut a strip of the band from the bottom of the sweater the same size as the circumference around my daughter’s head. (You can measure if you want to, but I just cut a long strip, wrapped it around her head, and cut it off to size)
(See the band at the bottom of the sweater? Cut that off for the band of the hat.)
Ok, now you should have a circle and a long strip.
Pin them, right sides together. (put the side you cut toward the outside, that way when you sew the finished edge from the sweater will be left alone and there is no need to re-finish the bottom of the band.)
Sew along the outside edge and sew the band closed.
Turn it right-side-out.
Done!
When I do this again (and I’m so doing this again) I think I’ll use a bigger plate or bowl to get a bigger circle.
I’m totally going to use this technique to make a chef hat (just use a really big circle) and a pumpkin hat out of an orange sweater with a green felt leaf on the top.
UPDATE:
Mr. Ham Bone got jealous and wanted his own hat, so we made a boy version:
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