Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. I will peel the white fabric away, trim the bottom (which is facing up at the moment), Trim the sides down if it isn’t quite the right size for the hat (It’s a little bit big so I can trim the sides away and make it oval instead of round, Like Prince William’s top hat.). Thank you!!! How many top hats am I ever going to make? Feel free to ask questions! Which led me to felting – both needle and wet, that transformed into a combination of the two. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Many thanks! Where do u get heat/water resistant tape? , Next post: The Blog Hoppiest Questions with Carly Phillips and Laura Kaye. How does your dryer felting work? Then use steam to form your top hat around your mold. I used four cans of spray insulation in my process. And proof they work! Sew a Reversible Sun Hat. This time it dried and I got a cloche shaped hat block, which, after I trimmed it down and shaped it some looks like this: Here is my top hat block form with the foam hardening (and overflowing the top) in it. I’m sorry, but I don’t have $65 – $100+ to blow on an item that is NEVER going to get worn. Thankyou. And finally, I wrapped it in water/heat resistant tape. Pretty much a upside down bucket, right? So I tried making a hat block in a bucket and one in a bowl. Big fail. Oh and the financials? Hat blocks are so outta budget for me at the moment…. Your blog made my life so much easier! Works great and cost me about 3 dollars top make. It depends on what you are using it for. Then I invented dryer felting because I’m lazy. Hi Kate, I am trying to make tiny felt top hats and this hat block tip was fab, I am using needle felt ironed on a cork but it is miserable! Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. They cost $3 each. Three? Now Victor Osborne used hats from the thrift store to make his molds from spray foam insulation. My youngest daughter then went on a internet search for a top hat for her dad. making things. Instead of buying styrofoam from a craft store, I went to local rent to own electronic stores and asked for their thrown away packing foam (very strong and clean). crafting, From that debacle I surmised the the material I used needed to be breathable. This all started when my husband said he wanted a top hat for Christmas. If it’s lazy that sounds like something I can get behind! After I poked a bunch of holes in the press n seal I lined the bucket with it finally hardened – but it doesn’t much resemble a hat block: I supposed I can trim it down and use it for something. Thank you so much! If you like my writing, and also like being able to read blogs without wading through ads consider clicking the “books” tab at the top of the page and buying a book or two. Tagged as: I only have one photo of that big mess, thank goodness. So I bought a book, since I’ve never done it before. So I started looking into how top hats are made. I took fabric and made molds by soaking the fabric in a mixture of one part white craft glue and two parts water. Wouldn’t that make the fabric stick to the bowl, and why would you want that? I crossed my fingers, grabbed my spray foam: And filled  the fabric with foam. So now I had forms to make my hat blocks from! wow is all i can say I thought you had to use wood, Im knew at hat blocking for felt hats, but I make hats. Nailed it. Then I discovered plastic hat blocks, which were far less money but still more than I wanted to spend. View All Tutorials Figure 8 Tutorials Fosshape Tutorials Hat Dying Tutorials Hat Making Tutorials How to Make Bows Misc. Well it’s not like the top hat was ever really going to be worn, so if it doesn’t come out well it still makes an okay gift. The felt for the hats and the Christmas ornaments from the  other day, around $25. In my research on the creation of top hats I discovered I was going to have to have a hat block. in Crafting, Entertaining nonsense and profound thought. We’ll see what I get when I’m done. So for three hat blocks (I’m curing a third now) I spent $12. Hat blocks are made of balsa wood and are Vry, vry expensive. Ask me about it someday! Speaking of financials, I haven’t monetized this blog by allowing advertising. Maybe. Get smart with the Thesis WordPress Theme from DIYthemes. Look it up on YouTube there are lots of tutorials. Basically, you want a ball covered in your wool and covered by something like pantyhose overtop of it. Here is a felt had drying on the cloche hat block. … Win, win all around. I wasn’t going to be able to find a top hat to use but what is a top hat? Yay! I get soaking the fabric in glue and water to make it stiff, just not the press n seal part. I’ll put up another post when I have a few hats finished. Dryer felting something that small should be interesting. The foam at the bottom never hardened. If the hats come out well then I’ve saved a bunch of moola and had some fun making felt hats and ornaments. More than the top hat by about four times. I’ll do my best to answer for your student! Entertaining nonsense and profound thought, The Blog Hoppiest Questions with Carly Phillips and Laura Kaye, Book Review: The Slow Burn of Silence by Loreth Anne White. Thanks! I just knew there had to be a simplified way of making one!!!! While I was wondering around the internet I came across this video tutorial on how to make your own hat block. I teach high school advanced crafts and one of my students wants to make hats. Now I know I can make a ton of different shaped hat blocks from this. They dried in a couple of hours and were very stiff. I knew I needed to make a hat block on the cheap. Hi, thank you for this! I didn’t use tape for making hat blocks…, Sweet!! I then glued them together with white glue and then shaped it to my size. I’ve recently become fascinated in making felt hats and ran into the problem of finding cheap blocks. It still didn’t seem worth it. Stay safe and fashionable in the sun with this reversible linen sunhat. I normally use a playground ball, but for something that small maybe a ping pong ball? Here is my top hat block form with the foam hardening (and overflowing the top) in it. One question: why did you line the bowl with press n seal? making it up as I go along, Thanks so much for the “cheap hat block” making advice! Maybe one day I’ll have the whole class make hats! Tutorials Using Ribbon in Hat Making Wonderflex Tutorials Figure 8 Tutorials Figure 8 Little Bowl of Flowers Great advice! If not? But my daughter REALLY wants to give her dad a top hat. I draped one in a bowl that I lined with press n seal and one over my plastic bucket.

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