What Hat Are You Working On Today?

[RickP]

Finally got the tears and holes closed up and stabilized. New liner will hide all the ugly parts. Used some grosgrain thats a close color match to glue in place. Amazes me that its made it as far as it did without the whole top of the hat falling off ( there was a total of about 3" of unbroken felt scattered around the top of the crown holding it together). Lesson of the week is never let anyone iron sharp edges into a bash..lol

Got everything rolled down pretty flat. at least its stable now. Plans are to shave off some felt fuzz from inside and pack it into the three spots of missing felt where the grosgrain shows through. Ill get cracking on the brim binding the next couple days...from a few feet away its looking way better already

 

[Judgmentalist]

Finally got the tears and holes closed up and stabilized. New liner will hide all the ugly parts. Used some grosgrain thats a close color match to glue in place. Amazes me that its made it as far as it did without the whole top of the hat falling off ( there was a total of about 3" of unbroken felt scattered around the top of the crown holding it together). Lesson of the week is never let anyone iron sharp edges into a bash..lol

Got everything rolled down pretty flat. at least its stable now. Plans are to shave off some felt fuzz from inside and pack it into the three spots of missing felt where the grosgrain shows through. Ill get cracking on the brim binding the next couple days...from a few feet away its looking way better already

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Can’t wait for the next update on this one

 

[RickP]

Two steps forward/ one step back. Should have the new sweatband and liner sewn in today. I did shave off some fuzz from the inside and got some secured in the holes where the backing was showing. ( cant see the ribbon behind the holes anymore)

And THEN... i was looking at a wobbly spot on the brim, and a chunk of felt on the edge fell off in several small pieces ( Arrrgh!). Poor little hat is in pretty fragile condition. Plans were to replace the missing brim binding anyway, so now I need to find some felt close to the color and thickness, glue in a little patch, and the do the brim binding... should be fine. Ive got some 5/8" ribbon on hand. Some 3/4 or 1" would pretty much close over the hole but i fear a wide binding might look funny

 

[Judgmentalist]

Two steps forward/ one step back. Should have the new sweatband and liner sewn in today. I did shave off some fuzz from the inside and got some secured in the holes where the backing was showing. ( cant see the ribbon behind the holes anymore)

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And THEN... i was looking at a wobbly spot on the brim, and a chunk of felt on the edge fell off in several small pieces ( Arrrgh!). Poor little hat is in pretty fragile condition. Plans were to replace the missing brim binding anyway, so now I need to find some felt close to the color and thickness, glue in a little patch, and the do the brim binding... should be fine. Ive got some 5/8" ribbon on hand. Some 3/4 or 1" would pretty much close over the hole but i fear a wide binding might look funny

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Beautiful work thus far. This is incredibly interesting; thank you for sharing.