How to Measure Your Head Size & Hat Size: Intro to Hat Blocks and Pattern Making

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[@Heatevjfv]

So much more helpful than a few other videos. So great . And the info comes from a hat maker ! Thank you 🙏

[@madcaphats]

Thank you Susan for your lovely compliment!!! Picking the right hat is easier when you know your head size. In the summer I will do a video at a festival where I advise on choosing the right hat that will flatter different face shapes and heights etc. Most of the folks who say they don't like hats usually don't know how to pick the perfect shape that would be most flattering for them. So many times I see people try on hats backwards and laugh and it is my challenge to help them understand that a hat can be very useful and flattering at the same time when the right one for them is selected. Thanks for watching!!! Tori

[@renar11d11]

Thank you for letting me know how to measure. We'll see how my first order goes.

[@madcaphats]

Keep us posted Rena! Your hats will keep getting better and better i promise!! Practise makes perfect!

[@karenhively488]

Thank you love your videos

[@madcaphats]

Thank you Karen!! This is one of our first ones!! 😊

[@ironrose888]

I love your videos too. I’m tired of getting sore throats and ear aches. I’m going to make fleece hats and scarves to wear instead of blankets. 😊

[@sharononeal6402]

I'm delighted to see that hat-making is still a craft in North America! I love your designs. My great aunt was a milliner in the 30s and 40s in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She made beautiful hats to sell and often gave hats to my mother. As children, my sisters and me loved dressing up in those hats! They were loaded with feathers, baubles, ribbons, bows, and even face netting. I wish I had them back, and I wish I knew much more about my great aunt and how she learned her craft! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the world. Where did you go to school to learn this artistry?

[@madcaphats]

Thank you Sharon. What a lovely comment and story! I went to school at George Brown College in Toronto through the Fashion Program. I was self taught before that. I was actually about 15 years into my hat business when I realized I wanted to learn more and be around like minded people. Took three years. I know there is a similar program in New York City, at the Fashion Institute. In those days of our parents, a well dressed person would not leave the house without a hat on their head. It always amazes me how well those shapes from the 30s and 40s, especially the fedora, have stood up over time! i will so a blocking video sometime in the summer so I hope you subscribed and will join me on this journey of hats! Nice to meet you on KZbin! Tori

[@sharononeal6402]

@@madcaphats So Tori I have a question for you. I just finished a jacket of forest green velvet that's lined with a rusty shade of red satin. It's for my granddaughter and it came out fabulously beautiful and she loves it. I'd like to make a hat that looks like your winter cloche. I bought your pattern and instructions and I've watched the construction video. Do you think if I line 2 pieces of the velvet with heavyweight woven sew-in interfacing between them it will work for the top of the hat? I'd like to make the brim out of the red satiny fabric. I thought I'd use some lightweight iron-on interfacing on the back of the red. Then make the brim as you do out of 2 pieces of fleece with sew-in interfacing. The red satin would be on the inside of the brim so when it was turned up on the finished hat the red satin would face to the outside. I'm mostly wondering the best way to stabilize the green velvet. It's beautiful in soft folds, so I don't want it to be too stiff. Your thoughts?

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@@sharononeal6402 i was thinking about the cloche in fabric again yesterday and realize the reason I didn't like it the one time i made it from a woolen fabric was because the swooping brim seemed flat. I think that a quilting interfacing, armo fleece for example, would give the brim some life. Also, a really lovely antique brooch about 2.5 inches in diameter or length ... in the same tones as the buttons on the jacket or with some the velvet tones and reds, would be stunning. A really large button sewn on to hold up the swoop would be great too. I think you should do the brim in the Velvet on the side that shows and red satin on the under side that mostly sits next to the hat. Lining in the the satin and maybe try to work a small piece of the satin into the brooch but use the velvet for most of the hat as that is so similar to the the brush of the fleece. Also cut a bit larger than you would for fleece, another 1/2" in the length of each piece. Cut the larger top. Do two pieces for the top and but them wrong sides together, velvet outside satin inside, to have a lined top as well. So little pieces of velvet aren't in the hair. I hope this works, if too big at least you can trim down. Please let me know how it works out!!

[@sharononeal6402]

@@madcaphats Thank you Tori I will keep you posted! Now to hunt for the mysterious armo fleece quilt interfacing!

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It is a dense filling. Adds some loft. What you might think of as the filling in a placemat.

[@wmyoung1000]

hot air, hehe i love it :)

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😁

[@bratgirlrules8094]

Thank you❤

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You're welcome 😊

[@camopen1193]

Thanks for the video! I'm starting a project to make a nice Santa Clause hat and have been looking for some tips :-)

[@madcaphats]

I also have a video about a faux fur pillbox and one for pom pom hat ... if you combine the two, you could put a furry brim around the bottom of your pom pom hat. Good luck and Santa hats are the best!!! Tori

[@camopen1193]

@@madcaphats thanks. Wish I had a way to reply with photos to show my progress 😁

[@madcaphats]

Me too! Would love to see your photos! Maybe that will be a KZbin update someday

[@camopen1193]

@@madcaphats I sent you a picture on Instagram 😁

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Will check my Instagram!

[@WV591]

And where is the next video

[@madcaphats]

Here it is!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/j5PcaqJ-aKppZpY Thanks so much for watching! Tori

[@rashidka6215]

My head size is 23 its normal ??? Plzzz rply mam

[@madcaphats]

For a woman average is 22.5 and for a man it's 23.5 so you are a bit above average for a woman or a bit below for a man. Hope that helps!

[@ironrose888]

You are correct. The “regular” hats for women don’t fit me. They are too tight and give me a headache or they keep sliding off my head and blow away. 😢

[@madcaphats]

Anne Marie ... I hope you get a chance to measure your head. Be sure to measure from the top of one ear, over your head to the top of your other ear. A size large would have a measurement of about 13 inches or about 33 cm from ear to ear ... many hats do not come down far enough to reach that sweet spot on your head where a hat sits nicely when your head is a bigger than the industry standard. Tori

[@rashidka6215]

Hai mam

[@kerryhorwitz4093]

Divide by pi? Seriously? Who on earth knows how to do that?

[@madcaphats]

@@kerryhorwitz4093 that is what a hat size is. Makes sense and if I was making you a hat I would know how big it would need to be if you told me that you had a hat that fits you and inside that hat it said 7 1/4 for example. I would know that your head was 22.5 inches around your head, above your ears and across your forehead. The finished band would need to be at least that long around your head to fit comfortably . Just an interesting fact about the business of hats and hat making. Pi is 3.14 for sake of hat making and hat size. Now you know!