Foldable hat | The 3R-S30W3

I must survive. As a tailor, I get difficult things, even if I'm new to such things. We stand to be corrected. I've been wondering how our tutor made a foldable cap that stood up even with the tutorial. To be honest, this is the week I felt like I shouldn't continue with the challenge this week. Every single day, I felt so lazy to do this because I thought it was just so complex, which it is.

I started on Monday and finished yesterday. Att some point, I thought I should just give up instead of becoming stressed, but what do I gain if I don't learn a new thing. My foldable hat may look funny 😁😁, but it's nice. It fits on my head because of the elastic nature of the jean material I used. Now, let me tell or show you how I recycled this into a foldable hat.

• Pieces of fabrics

• Office pins

• Scissors

• Thread

• Cardboard and pen

• A cloth ruler

• Measuring tape

• Hand sewing needle

These are the materials I used to show that it got to a complex point that needed endurance, patching up with a hand needle because of the bias. The uses of these materials are stated below because this is actually the first time we used cardboard to draw the design of the cap with ease.

• I purchased a piece of cardboard for this purpose and cut a little part out of it. I then used it to mark my measurements as listed in the tutorial. Vertically, I use the following measurements as marked below. After that, I drew horizontal lines to cross them together, giving them a good gap space.

Low 2.559 inches (6.5 cm)

2- Low 1.969 inches (5 cm)

3- Low 2.756 inches (7 cm).

4- Low 3,973 inches ( 6 cm)

There are 0.787 inches (1,5 cm) left to make the curve.

• After marking them vertically, I did it horizontally, and since I don't have a French curve to connect the lines or measurements used, I used a broomstick. This reminded me of what we usually used to draw curves in high school when plotting a mathematics or physics graph. I held the broomstick tight while connecting each X which I marked, and do you know what? It gave it a perfect curve. These are the measurements.

1- Measure 1.496 inches (3.8 cm)

2- Measure 1,969 inche (5 cm)

3- Mesuare 2,756 inches (7 cm)

4- Mesuare 3,937 inches ( 10 cm)

• After drawing the curve with the broomstick, I used a scissor to cut out the parts that won't be useful, and it gave me a mountain-like shape, as you can see. I used this shape and placed it on the materials I brought from the trash can and drew the shape with a pen, corresponding to the shape placed on the material. I first did the cravings on a chino material before using a cotton material, which would serve as the inner.

• I carved out 6 pieces in each of the materials. After arranging them together, I then used my dad's sewing machine to join them together. I was extra careful about how I sewed it because of the nature of the material. The chinos' material likes extending because it's not elastic in nature.

• After joining all 6 pieces on a coffee day, motivation stopped. I continued the next day by using a bias to cover the rough edges up, as you can see. The bias also added a good design to it. It's not as if it couldn't be joined directly, but the bias made that possible so that the interior of the hat can be used if one doesn't want to use the exterior.

• After connecting the bias on the 6 pieces, I used another day to join them together using hand-sewing stitches. I used a French knot to connect them tightly. After connecting them, motivation ended. I used another day to cover the edges below, and that was how I used one week to sew the foldable hat. It was my first time, and I noticed some errors or mistakes made as to why my hat wasn't standing like the tutor's own. I'll definitely improve on my second time fitting, and I'll tag the tutor to it.

	Testing my hat

• This is the final product of my foldable hat. I can be very portable, as you can see.