This is the best take on that other lady's video tutorials. well done. 1 felt beret completed just yesterday! :) Thank you for simplifying the process.
I know this was uploaded a long time ago, but I started making felt 2 years ago and this is one of the better wet felting tutorials for a hat I've seen. (I've made witch's hats and beanies before but keen to try berets too¡)
I felted a beret with one of my best friends and we're now in the final stage and we're adding finishing touches. I wish there was some way I could show you!
Wow, you did an amazing job with this video with precise explanations and tips. Spoken like someone with years more experience....you really did your homework!! Thanks for the great tutorial! My mom wore a beret every day of her life, in later years after retirement. I have them here somewhere, probably in storage and not easy to reach. I really want to make one for myself. I'm felting in all genres now, after just a couple months, and people have been giving me unused wool, freshly sheared, a carding machine, the works so I need to get busy (busier)! THANKS for this!!!!
I had no idea how to do wet felting. It was a mystery before. Thank you for this amazing video! Your grandma's hat looks like it may have has an elastic band inside it, which may have eroded over the years. A lot of old hats had latex in them which shrivel up, yellow and crack. Gust guessing. I don't really know what happened but I'm glad you have a fancy new one and I appreciate the video. :) I would be happy to make a neck corset one for you some day if you want.
Most specialty yarn stores sell wool roving, and most people who buy it are looking to spin it, not felt it. So if you're searching for felting supplies, try searching for yarn spinning supplies, and it might lead you in the right direction. Generic craft stores don't normally sell roving, so try looking up a local yarn store. :)
wow! cool pattern thanx so much!!!!!xx i have been wet felting for years with my whole family and my mum even did it in my school once!! i have only just learnt how to do seamless and cant wait to show this pattern to my mum!!! thank you so much!
Wow, this is the first tutorial I have really wanted to attempt!!! I've dreamt of owning a beret but they were either too small, too pricey, or the color I wanted was too inaccessible! This looks like so much fun! I can't wait for the windy gusty days and nights to hurry to my part of the states!
Yeah, I had a lot of old hats from my grandmother and a couple did the same thing. As well as a couple of vintage skirts from her. I think they had the elastic with latex in them too.
Thanks so much for the video!! I have done much with felting and currently recycle sweaters. My son wants to make a beret and we'll have a good time trying this together.
Oh my god! I have been looking for a good tutorial on wet felting for a while now and I just figured that no one had one up! I'm so happy to find this one. Now I can pair this with the how to make a hat block episode and I can make a hat for a costume and spend a lot less money.
i love felting...i spent an entire summer doing it....all you need to do now is to get some hat forms...so that you make all of your favorite vintage styles
I think this is now my new favorite video from you. Thanks for showing us! I love felting, but things like this always seemed too complicated... now I know how! Keep up the amazing work. So proud of you guys. :) Hope your vacation was great--you deserved it! (&, it's "beret".)
Great Tutorial! With your grandmother's hat, I kept thinking maybe it has to do with the way it is stored given its age because as a kid I remember my aunt wore a lot of felted style hats she purchased and was very formal about keeping the hats stored in tissue paper (like when you stuff new shoes with tissue or a purse you put away in a cedar drawer etc. to keep it from getting moths); I wonder too if you wet felt something can you reuse the felt without the trim for a new hat?
Cool! I already wondered about when wet felting would come in your episodes - it´s quite fashionable here in the german DIY-Scene, I think. We did babyshoes, flowers, cufflinks, anythink wet felted. It´s nice to do it with friends, because you can chat while doing it, it´s not so boring than. I wouldn´t use cardboard for the inner circle, but some plastic, like from table mats, or at least cover the cardboard with a plastic bag. Did you know you can wet felt in the washing machine, too?
Super cool! I like this video because to my knowledge on threadbanger we haven't seen much like this before!! As to your GGMA's hat I don't know... but since it is felted, could you not wet felt the shape back into the hat like you did in the one you made... and remove the trim and add some new stuff??
Thank you for this amazing beret demo. I searched for a seamless beret video and yours is he only felting demo i found. Most have seams. Is your Grandma's beret a woven wool? If so, it looks like it got wet and shrunk. Remember those plastic pleated rain bonnets women used to wear? Maybe she wore one of those to not let it get wet? Just a guess. Thanks again. I love your brown beret.
awesome. . .the resist for the opening seems rather small anyway. Should we not go by the measure of our heads?? Thanks for sharing didn't realize the process was so. . . .involved. BTW that vintage hat looked like it suffered dry-rot. Most older folks stored their hats in hat boxes, no?
That is really great episode, I wouldn´t ever thought of that, I would just lazzyly buy peace of felt. I have to try to make this now. Well, I love berets too and I washed mine in washing mashine and it didn´t do it well too...
At what point should it have shrunk? I have attempted it twice and they are roughly 12 inches in diameter. Is this wrong? What can I do to make them shrink to an appropriate size? Wonderful video by the way! Thanks!
So, I followed this tutorial - sizes and steps, except for the number of layers where I had about 4 medium thickness, and the huge problem that I had was that the round opening for the head, although cut the correct size, became immense, gigantic.The problem was created when I removed the resist, it widened at that point. So to make it wearable, to fit my head, I had to full it by throwing it in the bathtub thousands of times, to shrink all the piece together with the hole. Any other sugestions?
Nice beret. Looks like it would be alot of work. I'm still trying to figure out how the felt stayed together without needing glue :) I will be checking out the website you recommended and thanks for sharing :)
Hi threadbanger,I am sure I have seen on the net,how to unshrink a woolen jumper.Yes something like lay it out and iron, something along those lines.Also these days they have tiny irons u could use to iron inside the hat and stretch out again.U must try to save grannies hat some how.just look up how to unshrink a jumper I'm sure u ll work it out.Havent read all u coments just found this wen looking how to felt.Best of luck from Tracy.
Sorry about your grandma's beret, Corinne, that really is too bad. However, this was a WONDERFUL video and I can't wait to try it out for myself. It looks like it isn't too complicated, but will be a fun and not too difficult of a project! I would love to learn more hat making tricks and tips for this winter, too... :D
I’d kiss it too. You did a wonderful job. Thank you. It’s useful information. I think you’ll be glad you made a thick one as it becomes thinner with time. I think you GGmothers one was set upon by moths. But didn’t a really good look. Was it dusty and kind of Web like filaments in side where the holes were MOTHS! It looked like it had a leather band that had failed. Check under the remaining band to see if any pupae are there. It’s bares the signature of MOTHS though. My scarf looked the same and it still had a few chomping away at it stuck in the wardrobe but on an open hat stand they can get away to more profitable grounds for their next stage of the life cycle that doesn’t involve eating heirloom berets.
That is hard to tell what happened to it, but always store your wool in protective compartments and maybe it won't happen again... The corrugated resist was a great idea, something else r=that can work is wood flooring underlayment too, and it is reuseable. Great video. ;]
Thanks, Corinne, for a nice project. I wonder though, how to make that little "piton" on the top of the beret. I haven't found anything relating to that on the web, nor even whether it's really called a "piton", which is what the local French-Canadian folks call it. Cheers!
woah thats freaking awesome! i might have to try that sometime. i love berets! i wear them all the time. and i love Shaun the sheep! that made me smile when i saw that :)
you can get a similar effect if you crochet a hat like you did in your past video, but use a wool yarn instead and just throw it in the washer and dryer when you're done.
I love creative people and I learn a lot from this channel. Thanks for the info. Sorry, about GG-ma beret. I am sentimental and look my ancestor's articles. Could you repair it, or was it toast?
Sorry about your Great Grandma Mitchell's hat Corinne. :( But I'm sure she'd be uber proud and impressed that you made your own! Great tutorial and really great hat!
Very cool! One of the best Threadbanger tutorials to date...I like that you told at the end what needed some adjusting.
nailed it 11 years ago itself 🙏🏼
I love the old and new thread banger
What a great video! Very clearly demonstrated. It's cool to learn a traditional age-old technique like this, thank you for doing this!
This is the best take on that other lady's video tutorials. well done. 1 felt beret completed just yesterday! :) Thank you for simplifying the process.
I'll try it out THIS weekend... I'm so excited.... I have always worn berets and didn't even know how to make one of these.... so... Thank you!
I know this was uploaded a long time ago, but I started making felt 2 years ago and this is one of the better wet felting tutorials for a hat I've seen. (I've made witch's hats and beanies before but keen to try berets too¡)
Wow this made me realize how much I miss the old threadbangers 😭
I felted a beret with one of my best friends and we're now in the final stage and we're adding finishing touches. I wish there was some way I could show you!
may i know which type specific yarn you are using for your beret?
Wow, you did an amazing job with this video with precise explanations and tips. Spoken like someone with years more experience....you really did your homework!! Thanks for the great tutorial! My mom wore a beret every day of her life, in later years after retirement. I have them here somewhere, probably in storage and not easy to reach. I really want to make one for myself. I'm felting in all genres now, after just a couple months, and people have been giving me unused wool, freshly sheared, a carding machine, the works so I need to get busy (busier)! THANKS for this!!!!
I had no idea how to do wet felting. It was a mystery before. Thank you for this amazing video!
Your grandma's hat looks like it may have has an elastic band inside it, which may have eroded over the years. A lot of old hats had latex in them which shrivel up, yellow and crack. Gust guessing. I don't really know what happened but I'm glad you have a fancy new one and I appreciate the video. :) I would be happy to make a neck corset one for you some day if you want.
Hey Corinne! Could you make a witch/wizard hat using this technique?
tornartist yes you can. Cut a resist in the shape you want. Cut along the bottom. Open and use a mold to shape
I really miss video tutorials like these :(
Same
same xd
Most specialty yarn stores sell wool roving, and most people who buy it are looking to spin it, not felt it. So if you're searching for felting supplies, try searching for yarn spinning supplies, and it might lead you in the right direction.
Generic craft stores don't normally sell roving, so try looking up a local yarn store. :)
wow! cool pattern thanx so much!!!!!xx i have been wet felting for years with my whole family and my mum even did it in my school once!! i have only just learnt how to do seamless and cant wait to show this pattern to my mum!!! thank you so much!
very nice, I need to make a 17th century wool bonnet. I am going to try this technique. Happy sewing!
I have MISSED threadbanger.OMG!!! What a great project. I look horrible in berets, but you make me want to make one!!!
Oh my god, that's sooo amazing! One of theeee best tutorials ever! I love it, you did a fantastic job!
That was GREAT!!! I've been very curious about felting and this tute makes me want to explore this MORE!
Wow, this is the first tutorial I have really wanted to attempt!!!
I've dreamt of owning a beret but they were either too small, too pricey, or the color I wanted was too inaccessible! This looks like so much fun! I can't wait for the windy gusty days and nights to hurry to my part of the states!
Wow, this is one of the most in depth tutorials I have seen from you guys! Great job, especially for a first try.
Thanks for the Tut! I've done a bunch of felting of knitted items but I've never done a resist felt - I'm going to have to try that out!!
Love Corinne's style.
Felting is magical! Thanks for the tutorial, and thanks for suggesting such an awesome reference website!
Yeah, I had a lot of old hats from my grandmother and a couple did the same thing. As well as a couple of vintage skirts from her. I think they had the elastic with latex in them too.
That was awesome... I always wondered how those were made and I never would have guessed it was like that! wow.. thanks for the info.
Thanks so much for the video!! I have done much with felting and currently recycle sweaters. My son wants to make a beret and we'll have a good time trying this together.
Oh my god! I have been looking for a good tutorial on wet felting for a while now and I just figured that no one had one up! I'm so happy to find this one. Now I can pair this with the how to make a hat block episode and I can make a hat for a costume and spend a lot less money.
i love felting...i spent an entire summer doing it....all you need to do now is to get some hat forms...so that you make all of your favorite vintage styles
I have to give you Kudos for giving kudos to those you learned from. You will do well. Thanks for the video
I will take two days, not 4 hours to make this... but fascinating process & what a reward at the end!
I think this is now my new favorite video from you. Thanks for showing us! I love felting, but things like this always seemed too complicated... now I know how! Keep up the amazing work. So proud of you guys. :) Hope your vacation was great--you deserved it!
(&, it's "beret".)
How many ounces of wool is needed for this Beret?
Thanks, and great project! :)
Im gonna make a beret shaped like a pumpkin this week! Thanks Corinne! I made a witch hat using wet felting earlier this week
that was one of the best videos from this fall!
Congrats on your first effort, it looks great!! learning new stuff is awesome!
Little did she know she would be doing crazy pins in the future
Great Tutorial! With your grandmother's hat, I kept thinking maybe it has to do with the way it is stored given its age because as a kid I remember my aunt wore a lot of felted style hats she purchased and was very formal about keeping the hats stored in tissue paper (like when you stuff new shoes with tissue or a purse you put away in a cedar drawer etc. to keep it from getting moths); I wonder too if you wet felt something can you reuse the felt without the trim for a new hat?
That was REALLY cool, and the result looked amazing. What a process though.
This is such an interesting project! Thanks for showing!
Cool! I already wondered about when wet felting would come in your episodes - it´s quite fashionable here in the german DIY-Scene, I think. We did babyshoes, flowers, cufflinks, anythink wet felted. It´s nice to do it with friends, because you can chat while doing it, it´s not so boring than.
I wouldn´t use cardboard for the inner circle, but some plastic, like from table mats, or at least cover the cardboard with a plastic bag. Did you know you can wet felt in the washing machine, too?
that was so super cool! thanks for showing us how to do that.
Super cool! I like this video because to my knowledge on threadbanger we haven't seen much like this before!!
As to your GGMA's hat I don't know... but since it is felted, could you not wet felt the shape back into the hat like you did in the one you made... and remove the trim and add some new stuff??
I've wanted a beret for a while! Now I can try making one :D Thanks for the tutorial!
Great video...I have sheep & llamas ...I can't wait to try this! Thanks, Lisa D
Thank you for this amazing beret demo. I searched for a seamless beret video and yours is he only felting demo i found. Most have seams. Is your Grandma's beret a woven wool? If so, it looks like it got wet and shrunk. Remember those plastic pleated rain bonnets women used to wear? Maybe she wore one of those to not let it get wet? Just a guess. Thanks again. I love your brown beret.
GREAT video, thank you for making this!
awesome. . .the resist for the opening seems rather small anyway. Should we not go by the measure of our heads??
Thanks for sharing didn't realize the process was so. . . .involved.
BTW that vintage hat looked like it suffered dry-rot. Most older folks stored their hats in hat boxes, no?
You made it seem really simple, thanks so much, is there anything i can use instead of bamboo though?
Thank you so much for sharing this. I think I'll have to give it a try one of this days, seems really fun.
That is really great episode, I wouldn´t ever thought of that, I would just lazzyly buy peace of felt. I have to try to make this now.
Well, I love berets too and I washed mine in washing mashine and it didn´t do it well too...
At what point should it have shrunk? I have attempted it twice and they are roughly 12 inches in diameter. Is this wrong? What can I do to make them shrink to an appropriate size?
Wonderful video by the way! Thanks!
i enjoyed the river dancing sheep at the end.
congrats on the hat.. looks like a long process.
Awesome! I've always been very curious about this process! More felting vids!!!!
Yay! Now I want to wet felt an entire wardrobe!
Loved the video! Easy to follow!
So, I followed this tutorial - sizes and steps, except for the number of layers where I had about 4 medium thickness, and the huge problem that I had was that the round opening for the head, although cut the correct size, became immense, gigantic.The problem was created when I removed the resist, it widened at that point. So to make it wearable, to fit my head, I had to full it by throwing it in the bathtub thousands of times, to shrink all the piece together with the hole. Any other sugestions?
I wonder how one would put a stem in the center of the top side, like on a basque?
Nice beret.
Looks like it would be alot of work. I'm still trying to figure out how the felt stayed together without needing glue :)
I will be checking out the website you recommended and thanks for sharing :)
Hi threadbanger,I am sure I have seen on the net,how to unshrink a woolen jumper.Yes something like lay it out and iron, something along those lines.Also these days they have tiny irons u could use to iron inside the hat and stretch out again.U must try to save grannies hat some how.just look up how to unshrink a jumper I'm sure u ll work it out.Havent read all u coments just found this wen looking how to felt.Best of luck from Tracy.
Sorry about your grandma's beret, Corinne, that really is too bad.
However, this was a WONDERFUL video and I can't wait to try it out for myself. It looks like it isn't too complicated, but will be a fun and not too difficult of a project! I would love to learn more hat making tricks and tips for this winter, too... :D
did u put in the dryer/ cuz if u do that sometimes it brakes down the fibers in the wool (and it also shrinks it...i would know hehe)
You never said, but do you massage it with net on top? Not directly massage the wool?
Excellent video very clear and fun.
can you do a diy infinity scarf?
Hi! How do you dry your berret on? Like the head form it’s on at the last of the video? TIA !
I’d kiss it too. You did a wonderful job.
Thank you. It’s useful information.
I think you’ll be glad you made a thick one as it becomes thinner with time.
I think you GGmothers one was set upon by moths. But didn’t a really good look.
Was it dusty and kind of Web like filaments in side where the holes were MOTHS!
It looked like it had a leather band that had failed. Check under the remaining band to see if any pupae are there.
It’s bares the signature of MOTHS though.
My scarf looked the same and it still had a few chomping away at it stuck in the wardrobe but on an open hat stand they can get away to more profitable grounds for their next stage of the life cycle that doesn’t involve eating heirloom berets.
Hi. Can you tell us how much of wool is needed to make one hat? Thanks a bunch!
That is hard to tell what happened to it, but always store your wool in protective compartments and maybe it won't happen again...
The corrugated resist was a great idea, something else r=that can work is wood flooring underlayment too, and it is reuseable.
Great video. ;]
Thanks, Corinne, for a nice project. I wonder though, how to make that little "piton" on the top of the beret. I haven't found anything relating to that on the web, nor even whether it's really called a "piton", which is what the local French-Canadian folks call it.
Cheers!
That was a cool episode!
Do you know what the vinegar is for? I've never hear of that before. Does it set the felt or something?
Wonderful. Thanks for the tutorial.
woah thats freaking awesome! i might have to try that sometime. i love berets! i wear them all the time.
and i love Shaun the sheep! that made me smile when i saw that :)
Great Job! Loved the video.
It's 'Shaun the Sheep'!! My little brother adores that show, he's two and sits transfixed by it.
Hi! U did a great job! Do u think u could do a felted floppy hat?
I miss this era of thread banger / youtube.
lol love the sheep dance :)
love the hat as well.
That has to be one of the coolest things I've seen on TH-cam in a LONG time!!! nice!!
:^)
wow, looks so professional! :D great job!
How much wool do you need to do this? And would I be able to make a pillbox style hat like this?
you can get a similar effect if you crochet a hat like you did in your past video, but use a wool yarn instead and just throw it in the washer and dryer when you're done.
I love creative people and I learn a lot from this channel. Thanks for the info.
Sorry, about GG-ma beret. I am sentimental and look my ancestor's articles. Could you repair it, or was it toast?
this is so cool! i might try this! Thanks
That was AWESOME!
Wow, this is really cool!
"Barret" FTW! :D great job.
that sheep thing at the end made me want to play harvest moon.
awesome! i wanna do wet felting.
Wow i really wanna try this out. It turned out amazingly. I love watching your videos and I love making things out of nothing ;]]
GUAUUUUUU, GENIAL!!!!!! PARECE TAN FÁCIL!!!!
This was very informative easy instructions ,But you need a little more light. I plan to to try it!
Wow, that was amazing, really! Gotta try it!
MUST try this!!
i once went to this animal show and there was a crazy lady and she did that with doghair xD
Zoë Missinne she just made one with cat hair lol
This is so awesome I was looking for this
Great job! What does the water / white vinegar do?
It closes the cuticle on the wool.
Thanks!
Changes the pH of the wool. The soap solution is alkaline, the vinegar being acidic helps "shock" the wool and helps with the fulling process.
I was wondering what is the circumference of your head and how much of those 5 to 6 inches did it shrink
That is totally cool and doable.
Sorry about your Great Grandma Mitchell's hat Corinne. :( But I'm sure she'd be uber proud and impressed that you made your own!
Great tutorial and really great hat!
i really want to try some wet felting. it looks like it'd be a lot of fun.