Correction ... that first seam you sew is the back seam and that is the 17" long side .. not the longer side but the shorter side. The sides that will be sewn to the top of the toque, going around your head on the stretch, are actually the long sides. I apologize for calling the back seam the long side in the video. The top of our winter hats are contoured to fit our real life contoured heads! We are starting you off with the next batch of videos by making sure you have the top piece. Find the FREE PDF package here under the heading Polar Fleece Rolled Cuff Beanie Toque cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1714/8197/files/Rolled_Toque_Summary-combined.pdf?v=1668524302
Thank you for this pattern and your detailed instructions. It's a warm and beautiful hat that is easy to sew! I made one for myself, and am now making some to donate to a shelter. I am having a lot of fun finding nice fleece patterns and sewing!
Love your videos and patterns! They've kept me company through my flu episode, and now my first Winter Toque for personal use is complete. Best fleece hat project ever! Tomorrow will be fleece flower day! Thanks for getting me throught contagious stage and the current winterstorm!
I am so sorry you were sick...that flu this year is really nasty. So glad you found some comfort in the hat tutorial. Flower power and I hope you are feeling tons better now. Thank you for such a lovely post and here's to a great year ahead full of good health and hats! Xo Tori
Beginner sewer here! Just made a beanie using your pattern/ video tutorial! I used Sherpa instead of polar fleece. Recommend adding an additional half inch- inch with the Sherpa depending on how you like the fit, because of how thick the Sherpa is. Turned out great. thank you!
Awesome!Thank you for the good advice. The next video uses Sherpa in the earflaps and under the visor. I hope you give it a try and just take your time ...not too hard but a few curves and techniques to try! Tori
Hi thank you for the reply, sorry I somehow deleted my original message, however, since leaving my message I've worked it out and had the video playing alongside, step by step, I have a lovely completed hat, thank you so much! it's given me a lot of confidence
Best wishes from this end!! We are just uploading a new video so you can trim your new hat with a flower pin ... save your scraps!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, Tori
Thank you very much for the pattern, I've made several for my friends and a couple for myself in different colors. Even without any extra decorations people seem to think they are hard to make and expensive.
People might think it’s hard to make because they have no idea how to sew I’d assume. In my opinion this is very basic, all the sewing involved is very straightforward. It’s actually a decent tutorial. I have been making flat caps, bucket hats, fedoras and I’m about to make a winter hat. I’m looking for inspiration here…
Love your videos! We have a small farm and my hubbie totally enjoys his fleece hats early in the morning when he goes out to tend the chickens in winter. Thank you for creating such detail oriented content.
Thats a really nice hat you made. I am just about to make my first hat, typical that my new overlocker arrived before the thread! I am intrigued with the way you make the hat fit......You gained a new subscriber.
Hi. I love your hats and your videos. I'm not much of a seamstress and certainly not a milliner, but I'm trying to recreate a beloved hat that I lost. It was shaped just like this one, with a cuff, but the inside fabric was different than the outside one (the inside one was a bit more fuzzy and plush...maybe it was what you're calling "sherpa"). Can you tell me if I would get this effect if, instead of one piece for the body measuring 17" x 23" I use two pieces...the inside and outside...measuring 17" x 11 1/2 plus a seam allowance, sewn together and proceed with your instructions the same way? Thanks!
I would make the fleece piece for the outside an inch or so longer than the sherpa so the top of the cuff contrasts with the sherpa when the cuff is turned up or visa versa ... just so you don't have a line of sewing right at the half way point. Good luck though, the toque is a great starting point. I have another one that has as dip down over the ears in a toque style that can have sherpa lining the ear band cuff. That video will be released within the next week so stay tuned! Tori
Thank you for shating your knowledge! Could you please let me know which side of the hat (top or side) you are top stitching to make the top lay flat? Also, are you stitching over the seam allowance? Thank you!
I love my blocks! I will be experimenting with the new Cricut Hat press in an upcoming video soon. Very excited about the hat form that comes with it and I think it will be super helpful for pressing those tough seams in hats. The blocks are sized so they are so helpful doing custom sizes to make sure I have the size right before shipping a hat.@@lindawilson1924
Yes I do! I have a few on the channel ... this is my favorite and you can use these ideas for finishing on other hats you might have a pattern for already. th-cam.com/video/jVG_O2rOJEE/w-d-xo.html Happy holidays and thanks so much for your kind comment!!
I found the instructions for cutting the pattern to be a bit misleading. The seamstress should first determine the circumfrence of their head before deciding how big to make the circle/top of hat. Quadruple layer your fleece and determine a comfortable length. Take the length of your hat band (not including seam allowance) and divide by 3.14 to determine the diameter for your circle cut (also not including seam allowance). As printed, the top of the hat is approximately a "net" 7 inches which sews perfectly into a 22 inch hat band (22/3.14 = 7). If your quadruple layer hat band needs to be larger than 22 inches, you'll want to increase the size of your circle cut. For example: if you need to accomodate a 23 inch band, increase your circle diameter to 7 3/8" (plus seam allowance). Thinking my 22 inch head was average, I cut my circle first and ended up with a too tight hat. I would have had to stretch the hat top to make it fit a 23 inch band.
I am glad you figured out a solution for your own head size! It is a bit trickey to work out the top the way you describe as I have added a dart to give the top some lift and shape. Better to just add a bit to the edge of the top line outside cut line from the free pattern we provide with the link in the description. You can always start with the extra and baste it on ... if too big then remove and trim a bit off and try again. You are basically making your own pattern for your machine and your fabric choices so there is bound to be some experimenting at first. You really don't want to know how many of these I have made in my career and my sewing staff back in the day as well. Thousands. We used to make them for charity too. But every fabric is going to behave differently and you should draft a hard pattern from posterboard once you get it right for you and then you can just trace your pattern with great success!!! Thanks so much for watching and for your comment, cheers, Tori
Yes you can use a lining fabric or micro fleece or the same fleece. Just sew the two pieces together with the wrong sides together with edge stitch before attaching to the body.
I'm going to try this as it looks more sophisticated than other fleece beanie/hat patterns I've seen. But I don't understand what you corrected from the video so I'm sure I'm going to mess it up.
Hi Kristin ... the seam that is the first seam you sew, the back seam that goes up and down the hat vertically, is the seam that is the two shorter edges of your rectangle. The longer edge will be the edge that wraps around your head. I messed up by saying the back seam is the long seam ... I meant that it is a long seam to sew with the top stitch and to take your time. Hope that helps clarify!!
I don't know what I am doing wrong with the winter the winter toquehat. I sew the long ends at 1/4. Them fold in half still on the long edge and when I turn right side out it is on 6 inch round. I keep going back to the video and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Please help. Thank yo. Carol T
I am not sure what you're doing wrong either but I have another toque video coming up soon and I will be repeating some of these early steps and showing how to decorate it with some fabric or another fleece color.
Would it be necessary to rip out the seam if you didn’t catch the error in time? My first project right out of my beginner new machine owner’s class and I thought I knew what the edit was talking about. Wouldn’t you know it took actually took me messing up to truly figure it out?
This is your call. I love to rip out seams that are not perfect. One bad seam can really mess up the whole project!! 36 years in to this and I rip out seams everyday. I like to believe it is because I am learning too. I really do believe that. Keep at it and very proud of you! Tori
Excellent question Joann! If you are increasing the size of the hat width, the measurement going around your head, increasing the size of the top will definitely be in order.
I used a straight stitch. One that is on the longer side. I use poly thread so it is strong. I am going to be using some slightly stretchy thread in some future hat videos but straight stitch and I used my serger to give a clean finish to the raw edges on the inside at the top. Hope that helps! Tori
Elizabeth, if you turn on the subtitles you will see the words. Not sure if you can download the subtitles and save it on your device. Thanks so much, Tori
Question: What sides of the fabric are you sewing together? I have a fleece that has side I'd like to hide. Did you sew together the right sides or the back sides and then turn it right side out? Much appreciated if you're able to clarify. Cheers
Hi Erin ... I am not sure I understand your question but for the first seam, I am sewing the right sides or the good side of the fabric together so that they are facing each other and the wrong sides are what I see under my presser foot.
@@madcaphats Hey! Thank you so much for you reply- I appreciate it! That answers my question! I made all the mistakes, including the sewing the long side. But after feeling very boggled, and walking away from it 3 times, I figured it out- which was very satisfying. Thanks again for coming back to my question! Have learned to read the comments first before embarking on a project. Cheers
Hi Ruth ... the top is a free download on our website. There is a link in the description under the video. The body is one piece of fabric and how to measure is in the description as well. I can send you the download pdf to your email as I see you emailed me as well. Thanks so much, Tori
I have racked my brain trying to turn the hat inside out the way you are describing. There is no way it turns into a tube following these instructions.
Hi Melody ... I am always hopeful that the video of me doing it might be better than the words I use or together they form a good picture. Peel away the two "outside" layers of the four, the top one and the bottom one, and turn right side out. IE there are four layers after the back seam is sewn in half ... there will be four raw edges on one side of that seam. Take the top one and the bottom one and flip right side out. You should then be left with a two layer tube all the way around. It is just a technique trick to give that cuff stability so it does not twist. You can just sew up the back seam and then bring the two edges of the top together, wrong sides together, and sew all around the top edge to make your tube ... a more traditional way to form a toque tube in fleece.
Yeah, I’m lost. I must have sewn something wrong cause all I can do is turn it inside out and right side out again. No idea what extra dimension we have to enter in to make it a tube with the seam concealed
@@danielwhitacre I did make an error describing the back seam. The back seam is actually not as long as the two sides of the rectangle that would go around your head. Back seam runs up and down. Once you have sewn the right sides of the back seam together, you would take one end of that seam and bring it up to meet the other end. There will be a fold now that runs around your head at one edge and the top edge would have the two ends meeting up together. If you send me an email with a picture of your progress, I can better send a picture back that I hope will help. Tori
Hi Linda ... the measurements are in the video ... you are cutting a rectangle from fleece. You can email me at madcaphats@gmail.com and I can ask you about your head measurements and tell you what to cut on the stretch and the not so stretchy. There is a template for the top on our website and you can download it from this page ... madcaphats.com/pages/summary-sheets-for-youtube-videos-in-pdf-form It is called "Polar Fleece Rolled Cuff Beanie Toque"
So it looks like your fleece has a little bit of stretch. What fabric are we shopping for to make these? And if you have Canadian stores you can recommend that would be helpful too. TIA
This fleece was purchased from Fabricland or Fabricville (that is the name in Quebec) I believe it is or has Mountain in the name. I got it last year. As long as you cut the piece larger than your head size you should be good. Try to avoid an obvious 4way stretch. There is always some stretch in every direction with fleece but if it is advertised as four way stretch I never use that. You are shopping for a medium weight fleece that has a stretch across the width.
It's two pieces! The top is available free of charge on our website. The body is a rectangle. Please follow the link in the description for lots of free details and pattern pieces! Every pattern is tested on real people and I am very committed to providing in depth detail so you don't waste time or fabric. I hope this helps! Tori
You sew that long edge...then you fold it in half. Then you sew beside that first seam. I will take a look later today to see where you mean specifically. You are right that the sides going around your head are longer. Thanks for pointing that out and I will be more careful going forward. I am sorry if I failed in making that clear. I always hope the video helps to show what I am doing. Grateful you figured it out! Going forward the part of the fabric that does not stretch will most often be the part used in the back seam.
I added a correction in the description and will try to add something inside the video as well. Thanks again for pointing this out. So sorry for the inconvenience and hopefully you were able to correct and finish your toque successfully!
@@MsDaisy173 I really really appreciate you letting me know. I don't know enough about editing to actually fix the audio in the video but I added a note in the description and will see if I can insert something at the actual point I do my word salad!!! thanks again, Tori
Long side, back side, etc… it’s too confusing. It would also help if your camera was a bit further away. If I could see the entire piece of fabric, it might help.
Thank you Kim for your feedback. Appreciate it! You can also email me at madcaphats@gmail.com if you want to ask specific questions or send any photos of the steps you are having an issue with. Cheers, Tori
Correction ... that first seam you sew is the back seam and that is the 17" long side .. not the longer side but the shorter side. The sides that will be sewn to the top of the toque, going around your head on the stretch, are actually the long sides. I apologize for calling the back seam the long side in the video.
The top of our winter hats are contoured to fit our real life contoured heads! We are starting you off with the next batch of videos by making sure you have the top piece. Find the FREE PDF package here under the heading Polar Fleece Rolled Cuff Beanie Toque
cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1714/8197/files/Rolled_Toque_Summary-combined.pdf?v=1668524302
Thank you so much
No wonder mine didn’t come out right. I will try it again tomorrow.
ugh no wonder mine came out wonky!! hopefully i have better luck next time! LOL
Thank you for this pattern and your detailed instructions. It's a warm and beautiful hat that is easy to sew! I made one for myself, and am now making some to donate to a shelter. I am having a lot of fun finding nice fleece patterns and sewing!
That is awesome!! Thanks for this lovely comment! All the best, Tori
Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you for watching Samantha!
Love your videos and patterns! They've kept me company through my flu episode, and now my first Winter Toque for personal use is complete. Best fleece hat project ever! Tomorrow will be fleece flower day! Thanks for getting me throught contagious stage and the current winterstorm!
I am so sorry you were sick...that flu this year is really nasty. So glad you found some comfort in the hat tutorial. Flower power and I hope you are feeling tons better now. Thank you for such a lovely post and here's to a great year ahead full of good health and hats! Xo Tori
Beginner sewer here! Just made a beanie using your pattern/ video tutorial! I used Sherpa instead of polar fleece. Recommend adding an additional half inch- inch with the Sherpa depending on how you like the fit, because of how thick the Sherpa is. Turned out great. thank you!
Awesome!Thank you for the good advice. The next video uses Sherpa in the earflaps and under the visor. I hope you give it a try and just take your time ...not too hard but a few curves and techniques to try! Tori
Hi thank you for the reply, sorry I somehow deleted my original message, however, since leaving my message I've worked it out and had the video playing alongside, step by step, I have a lovely completed hat, thank you so much! it's given me a lot of confidence
I am so proud of you! Onward and upward...Cheers, Tori
downloaded pattern, found my fleece,, going to make this hat, wish me luck!
Best wishes from this end!! We are just uploading a new video so you can trim your new hat with a flower pin ... save your scraps!!! Thanks so much for taking the time to comment, Tori
I love this pattern! Thank you for sharing this ❣️ 🥰❤️❤️
Glad you like it! Thank you! Tori
Thank you very much for the pattern, I've made several for my friends and a couple for myself in different colors. Even without any extra decorations people seem to think they are hard to make and expensive.
Awesome!! You must have done a super job!!! Tori
People might think it’s hard to make because they have no idea how to sew I’d assume. In my opinion this is very basic, all the sewing involved is very straightforward. It’s actually a decent tutorial. I have been making flat caps, bucket hats, fedoras and I’m about to make a winter hat. I’m looking for inspiration here…
Bello me encantó y no es tan difícil,veré si lo Confeccióno gracias!!
¡muchas gracias! Espero que te haya funcionado. A veces me preocupa la traducción a otro idioma porque solo hablo inglés. Gracias por mirar, Tori.
I'm so happy I found your channel 💛 💓 and proudly Canadian love ❤️
Thank you so much from Ontario, Canada !!!❤️
@@madcaphats from Ontario to
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Love it! Thanks for sharing your secret with us! ❤
Thanks for watching!
Love your videos! We have a small farm and my hubbie totally enjoys his fleece hats early in the morning when he goes out to tend the chickens in winter. Thank you for creating such detail oriented content.
What a lovely comment to start my day 😊! Thank you BJ! Tori
Tori, Thank you for your videos. I enjoy them. I'm looking forward to the next video showing the flower.
Thank you Donna. We will use that top for a cap and hat with bucket style brim as well so make sure you print it out!
Thats a really nice hat you made. I am just about to make my first hat, typical that my new overlocker arrived before the thread! I am intrigued with the way you make the hat fit......You gained a new subscriber.
Thank you so much Louise! Cheers, Tori
Love your videos! Looking forward to making some hats.
Thank you so much Debbie! Hats are the best! Let me know how you do! Tori
Gooooootaaaaaa try this2!!!!!!!😅
Hi. I love your hats and your videos. I'm not much of a seamstress and certainly not a milliner, but I'm trying to recreate a beloved hat that I lost. It was shaped just like this one, with a cuff, but the inside fabric was different than the outside one (the inside one was a bit more fuzzy and plush...maybe it was what you're calling "sherpa"). Can you tell me if I would get this effect if, instead of one piece for the body measuring 17" x 23" I use two pieces...the inside and outside...measuring 17" x 11 1/2 plus a seam allowance, sewn together and proceed with your instructions the same way? Thanks!
I would make the fleece piece for the outside an inch or so longer than the sherpa so the top of the cuff contrasts with the sherpa when the cuff is turned up or visa versa ... just so you don't have a line of sewing right at the half way point. Good luck though, the toque is a great starting point. I have another one that has as dip down over the ears in a toque style that can have sherpa lining the ear band cuff. That video will be released within the next week so stay tuned! Tori
Thank you for shating your knowledge! Could you please let me know which side of the hat (top or side) you are top stitching to make the top lay flat? Also, are you stitching over the seam allowance? Thank you!
Hi there! I top stitch on the side. Thank you for the comment! Tori
I love your tutorials!! May I please get you to provide information as to where I can get the head block you use. Very much appreciated!
Hi Linda ... I bought many of my hat blocks from a company near Chicago called Judith M.
here is their website ... www.judithm.com/
Thank you. You're the best!@@madcaphats
I love my blocks! I will be experimenting with the new Cricut Hat press in an upcoming video soon. Very excited about the hat form that comes with it and I think it will be super helpful for pressing those tough seams in hats. The blocks are sized so they are so helpful doing custom sizes to make sure I have the size right before shipping a hat.@@lindawilson1924
So the top stitching seam that you stitch around the top, are we stitching the seam allowance down onto the sides?
Yes! I will be doing another toque video soon and will show this again.
Love your pattern! I made several of this and they're all great! Do you also have patyerns for babies and kids?
Yes I do! I have a few on the channel ... this is my favorite and you can use these ideas for finishing on other hats you might have a pattern for already. th-cam.com/video/jVG_O2rOJEE/w-d-xo.html Happy holidays and thanks so much for your kind comment!!
I found the instructions for cutting the pattern to be a bit misleading. The seamstress should first determine the circumfrence of their head before deciding how big to make the circle/top of hat. Quadruple layer your fleece and determine a comfortable length. Take the length of your hat band (not including seam allowance) and divide by 3.14 to determine the diameter for your circle cut (also not including seam allowance). As printed, the top of the hat is approximately a "net" 7 inches which sews perfectly into a 22 inch hat band (22/3.14 = 7). If your quadruple layer hat band needs to be larger than 22 inches, you'll want to increase the size of your circle cut. For example: if you need to accomodate a 23 inch band, increase your circle diameter to 7 3/8" (plus seam allowance). Thinking my 22 inch head was average, I cut my circle first and ended up with a too tight hat. I would have had to stretch the hat top to make it fit a 23 inch band.
I am glad you figured out a solution for your own head size! It is a bit trickey to work out the top the way you describe as I have added a dart to give the top some lift and shape. Better to just add a bit to the edge of the top line outside cut line from the free pattern we provide with the link in the description. You can always start with the extra and baste it on ... if too big then remove and trim a bit off and try again. You are basically making your own pattern for your machine and your fabric choices so there is bound to be some experimenting at first. You really don't want to know how many of these I have made in my career and my sewing staff back in the day as well. Thousands. We used to make them for charity too. But every fabric is going to behave differently and you should draft a hard pattern from posterboard once you get it right for you and then you can just trace your pattern with great success!!! Thanks so much for watching and for your comment, cheers, Tori
Is it possible to make the top two layers as well or is that not recommended. Thanks for the pattern and helpful videos.
Yes you can use a lining fabric or micro fleece or the same fleece. Just sew the two pieces together with the wrong sides together with edge stitch before attaching to the body.
@@madcaphats Thanks so much!
@@redoleary4 you may need to cut the top just slightly larger depending on the lining!
I'm going to try this as it looks more sophisticated than other fleece beanie/hat patterns I've seen. But I don't understand what you corrected from the video so I'm sure I'm going to mess it up.
Hi Kristin ... the seam that is the first seam you sew, the back seam that goes up and down the hat vertically, is the seam that is the two shorter edges of your rectangle. The longer edge will be the edge that wraps around your head. I messed up by saying the back seam is the long seam ... I meant that it is a long seam to sew with the top stitch and to take your time. Hope that helps clarify!!
I don't know what I am doing wrong with the winter the winter toquehat. I sew the long ends at 1/4. Them fold in half still on the long edge and when I turn right side out it is on 6 inch round. I keep going back to the video and can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Please help. Thank yo. Carol
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I am not sure what you're doing wrong either but I have another toque video coming up soon and I will be repeating some of these early steps and showing how to decorate it with some fabric or another fleece color.
Would it be necessary to rip out the seam if you didn’t catch the error in time?
My first project right out of my beginner new machine owner’s class and I thought I knew what the edit was talking about. Wouldn’t you know it took actually took me messing up to truly figure it out?
This is your call. I love to rip out seams that are not perfect. One bad seam can really mess up the whole project!! 36 years in to this and I rip out seams everyday. I like to believe it is because I am learning too. I really do believe that. Keep at it and very proud of you! Tori
Curious, if the rectangle or size needs to be increased, should the toque top template be increased the same amount?
Excellent question Joann! If you are increasing the size of the hat width, the measurement going around your head, increasing the size of the top will definitely be in order.
@@madcaphats Thank you so much!
Which do you think is a better seller at craft shows? This one or the pom one?
We have sold 1000s of these in various forms so this one Rosie. Put a simple flower pin in the same color and they are magic!
@@madcaphats Awesome! I'm going to try this one then. Thank you!
Also depends on your customer. Older folks like this hat, younger people like the pom pom hats
are you using a zig zag stitch when you are sewing this hat?
I used a straight stitch. One that is on the longer side. I use poly thread so it is strong. I am going to be using some slightly stretchy thread in some future hat videos but straight stitch and I used my serger to give a clean finish to the raw edges on the inside at the top. Hope that helps! Tori
Is it possible to read the instructions in print?
Elizabeth, if you turn on the subtitles you will see the words. Not sure if you can download the subtitles and save it on your device. Thanks so much, Tori
Question: What sides of the fabric are you sewing together? I have a fleece that has side I'd like to hide. Did you sew together the right sides or the back sides and then turn it right side out? Much appreciated if you're able to clarify. Cheers
Hi Erin ... I am not sure I understand your question but for the first seam, I am sewing the right sides or the good side of the fabric together so that they are facing each other and the wrong sides are what I see under my presser foot.
@@madcaphats Hey! Thank you so much for you reply- I appreciate it! That answers my question! I made all the mistakes, including the sewing the long side. But after feeling very boggled, and walking away from it 3 times, I figured it out- which was very satisfying. Thanks again for coming back to my question! Have learned to read the comments first before embarking on a project. Cheers
How long is the dart on the top of hat
Ruth it is about 9 cm or 3.5"
Can I buy this pattern?
Hi Ruth ... the top is a free download on our website. There is a link in the description under the video. The body is one piece of fabric and how to measure is in the description as well. I can send you the download pdf to your email as I see you emailed me as well. Thanks so much, Tori
I have racked my brain trying to turn the hat inside out the way you are describing. There is no way it turns into a tube following these instructions.
Hi Melody ... I am always hopeful that the video of me doing it might be better than the words I use or together they form a good picture. Peel away the two "outside" layers of the four, the top one and the bottom one, and turn right side out. IE there are four layers after the back seam is sewn in half ... there will be four raw edges on one side of that seam. Take the top one and the bottom one and flip right side out. You should then be left with a two layer tube all the way around. It is just a technique trick to give that cuff stability so it does not twist. You can just sew up the back seam and then bring the two edges of the top together, wrong sides together, and sew all around the top edge to make your tube ... a more traditional way to form a toque tube in fleece.
Yeah, I’m lost. I must have sewn something wrong cause all I can do is turn it inside out and right side out again. No idea what extra dimension we have to enter in to make it a tube with the seam concealed
Can you send me a photo? Email me madcaphats@gmail.com...let's sort this out! Tori
@@danielwhitacre I did make an error describing the back seam. The back seam is actually not as long as the two sides of the rectangle that would go around your head. Back seam runs up and down. Once you have sewn the right sides of the back seam together, you would take one end of that seam and bring it up to meet the other end. There will be a fold now that runs around your head at one edge and the top edge would have the two ends meeting up together. If you send me an email with a picture of your progress, I can better send a picture back that I hope will help. Tori
Could someone send me a link to the pattern,,,,,im new to this
Hi Linda ... the measurements are in the video ... you are cutting a rectangle from fleece. You can email me at madcaphats@gmail.com and I can ask you about your head measurements and tell you what to cut on the stretch and the not so stretchy. There is a template for the top on our website and you can download it from this page ... madcaphats.com/pages/summary-sheets-for-youtube-videos-in-pdf-form
It is called "Polar Fleece Rolled Cuff Beanie Toque"
So it looks like your fleece has a little bit of stretch. What fabric are we shopping for to make these? And if you have Canadian stores you can recommend that would be helpful too. TIA
This fleece was purchased from Fabricland or Fabricville (that is the name in Quebec) I believe it is or has Mountain in the name. I got it last year. As long as you cut the piece larger than your head size you should be good. Try to avoid an obvious 4way stretch. There is always some stretch in every direction with fleece but if it is advertised as four way stretch I never use that. You are shopping for a medium weight fleece that has a stretch across the width.
can someone send the instructions?
You can email us at madcaphats@gmail.com and we can send you a copy of the free info and top piece that is on our website. Cheers, Tori
Your pattern is not very clear. How many pcs do you cut for the brim part & how many for the crown? Do you have a pattern that is more clearer?
It's two pieces! The top is available free of charge on our website. The body is a rectangle. Please follow the link in the description for lots of free details and pattern pieces! Every pattern is tested on real people and I am very committed to providing in depth detail so you don't waste time or fabric. I hope this helps! Tori
Your instructions say “sew long edge of hat body” should this say….sew the short edge, 17” length? I followed the directions and that did not work.
You sew that long edge...then you fold it in half. Then you sew beside that first seam. I will take a look later today to see where you mean specifically. You are right that the sides going around your head are longer. Thanks for pointing that out and I will be more careful going forward. I am sorry if I failed in making that clear. I always hope the video helps to show what I am doing. Grateful you figured it out! Going forward the part of the fabric that does not stretch will most often be the part used in the back seam.
I added a correction in the description and will try to add something inside the video as well. Thanks again for pointing this out. So sorry for the inconvenience and hopefully you were able to correct and finish your toque successfully!
No problem, it was easy to undo, now I have two hats. Really easy project.
@@MsDaisy173 I really really appreciate you letting me know. I don't know enough about editing to actually fix the audio in the video but I added a note in the description and will see if I can insert something at the actual point I do my word salad!!! thanks again, Tori
@@madcaphats I'm still not getting it. Do I fold to match the long sides or the short sides of the rectangle?
Long side, back side, etc… it’s too confusing. It would also help if your camera was a bit further away. If I could see the entire piece of fabric, it might help.
Thank you Kim for your feedback. Appreciate it! You can also email me at madcaphats@gmail.com if you want to ask specific questions or send any photos of the steps you are having an issue with. Cheers, Tori