It started with 3 pieces of red felt and 4 pieces of white. I edged stitched along the short side two pieces of red and two pieces of white for the stripes. Mason’s head is 20 1\/2″ around so I needed 21 1\/2″ with seam allowances. I also edge stitched two pieces of white along the long edge to use for the brim.
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Edge stitching:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Then I flattened the seams to make the rest of the process easier. I cut two 3″ x 21 1\/2″ strips of white felt and 1 of red felt. The other red felt strip was more of a art than measurement. I sewed them wrong sides out and then flipped them over and satin stitched them from the outside. This was mostly to give the hat a little structural integrity, but it also looks good. Satin stitching:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t get a picture of the top red strip and I wish I had. It was 21 1\/2″ across the bottom, 24″ across the top, 3″ tall at the center and 4 1\/2″ tall at each end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After stitching that together, I sewed the opposite seam of the hat making it a tube. I flipped it over and shaped the top edge the way I wanted it and traced and cut a piece for the top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Top piece:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I sewed the top and the brim on (sorry, no pictures) and then trimmed the brim, freehand, flipped it over and sewed a bead around the edge of the brim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Finished hat:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Making a hat My son’s school is celebrating Dr. Suess’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maker","category-sewing"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat.jpg",1200,1600,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-225x300.jpg",225,300,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-768x1024.jpg",640,853,true],"large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-768x1024.jpg",640,853,true],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-1152x1536.jpg",1152,1536,true],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat.jpg",1200,1600,false],"chromenews-featured":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-1024x1365.jpg",1024,1365,true],"chromenews-large":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6-MasonInHisHat-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"chuckularone","author_link":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/author\/chuckularone\/"},"category_info":"Maker<\/a> Sewing<\/a>","tag_info":"Sewing","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":886,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshanty.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/theshanty.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1-stitching-2-768x1024.jpg\")
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