Ugly Joe
07-19-2006, 12:26 PM
For hats...here's a REAL fast how-to...seems to have worked for me...
Materials:
Cheap batting...the real fluffy kind (what I used is the kind of stuff they sell as "snow on the ground" for Christmas village sets).
(mine...after some cutting: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Cardstock...just simple, cheap posterboard - wide enough to make a circle that will be the brim, and enough extra to make the crown.
(once again, after some cutting: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Scissors...just in case someone didn't think of it.
Adhesive...spray adhesive is best bet. Covers and sticks to the cardstock and batting well.
(what I've used: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Polyurethane...at least a quart, as this project will use quite a bit (materials soak it up).
How to:
Cut a big circle of your cardstock...it's going to be the brim.
Make certain you've made it wide enough - adding to it would be a pain, but trimming it down is no problem.
Once you have the big circle, cut a smaller circle in the center, to fit the head of your prop.
Measuring at this point is good...eyeballing may work, but I leave it up to you.
You should have a cardstock donut at this point...
Spray one side with adhesive...
Lay out the batting (it should be wide enough to cover the brim)...
Lay the cardstock donut on the batting - adhesive covered side to batting, if you don't mind...
Use scissors to cut batting to shape around donut/brim...
Repeat for other side of brim (you'll want batting on both sides)...
Now, you should have a fuzzy flat donut...
(like this: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Cut a long strip of cardstock - this is going to be the wall of the crown.
Measure it to fit around the small hole in the middle of the donut, and glue the ends together to make a cylinder.
(like this: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Here's the tricky part (and no pics...got so involved I forgot to take any):
The top of the crown needs to fit into the top of the cylinder...cut it a quarter inch too big, and make some (very small) flaps along that 1/4" edge...at least, that's how I did it.
Then, once you have the top of the crown, with little flaps cut all the way around and folded down, spray some adhesive inside the wall of the crown towards the top...
Slide the top in through the bottom of the wall, and push to the top.
This will spread the adhesive onto the flaps, and keep the flaps folded down, inside the wall, giving some surface area for the adhesive to hold on.
Kind of like pushing a cork into a bottle...just a lot bigger, looser, and harder to work with...
I'm cutting for size, and adding a second post in a moment...
Materials:
Cheap batting...the real fluffy kind (what I used is the kind of stuff they sell as "snow on the ground" for Christmas village sets).
(mine...after some cutting: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Cardstock...just simple, cheap posterboard - wide enough to make a circle that will be the brim, and enough extra to make the crown.
(once again, after some cutting: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Scissors...just in case someone didn't think of it.
Adhesive...spray adhesive is best bet. Covers and sticks to the cardstock and batting well.
(what I've used: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Polyurethane...at least a quart, as this project will use quite a bit (materials soak it up).
How to:
Cut a big circle of your cardstock...it's going to be the brim.
Make certain you've made it wide enough - adding to it would be a pain, but trimming it down is no problem.
Once you have the big circle, cut a smaller circle in the center, to fit the head of your prop.
Measuring at this point is good...eyeballing may work, but I leave it up to you.
You should have a cardstock donut at this point...
Spray one side with adhesive...
Lay out the batting (it should be wide enough to cover the brim)...
Lay the cardstock donut on the batting - adhesive covered side to batting, if you don't mind...
Use scissors to cut batting to shape around donut/brim...
Repeat for other side of brim (you'll want batting on both sides)...
Now, you should have a fuzzy flat donut...
(like this: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Cut a long strip of cardstock - this is going to be the wall of the crown.
Measure it to fit around the small hole in the middle of the donut, and glue the ends together to make a cylinder.
(like this: Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket )
Here's the tricky part (and no pics...got so involved I forgot to take any):
The top of the crown needs to fit into the top of the cylinder...cut it a quarter inch too big, and make some (very small) flaps along that 1/4" edge...at least, that's how I did it.
Then, once you have the top of the crown, with little flaps cut all the way around and folded down, spray some adhesive inside the wall of the crown towards the top...
Slide the top in through the bottom of the wall, and push to the top.
This will spread the adhesive onto the flaps, and keep the flaps folded down, inside the wall, giving some surface area for the adhesive to hold on.
Kind of like pushing a cork into a bottle...just a lot bigger, looser, and harder to work with...
I'm cutting for size, and adding a second post in a moment...