In this video I’ll show you how to make a Gandalf the Grey hat, you can use this pattern to make any witch or wizard hat.
I am putting all the information about the pattern pieces and what you fabric you need here, in order to keep the video at an acceptable length.
To measure the radius of a circle: Circumference divided by Pi= diameter,
Diameter divided by 2 = radius
MATERIAL:
( How much fabric you’ll need, will depend on the size of your hat)
– Medium to heavy woolly type fabric
– lining fabric
– heavy fuse or fusing
– pillow stuffing
Pattern Pieces, cut:
-outer layer = 1 cone piece
2 brim pieces
-lining layer = 1cone piece
-heavy fuse= 2 brim pieces
1 cone piece (will be attached to the outer layer)
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I want to do this to finalise my Gandalf the Grey costume…So, today I brought two or yards two metres of Grey felt. Which right now seems a little too light for the body of a large floppy wide brimmed wizard’s hat, so I might order some heavier.I also brought some coils of thick metal wire. Otherwise called armatures. I have about four of these each and they should enough to help shape the cone into a banana type shape that I noticed with every picture I have seen of his hat.I already tried this with the cheap version of the official replica of the hat. Which I found to be too small to stay on my head without forcing it down over my noggin and with a badly shaped cone on top that never satisfied me. also wanted a wider brim. As wire, I did use a spare coat hanger made from wire cover in that coloured lanolin and it almost worked when I tore the stitching on the inside of it where my head goes and shoved the wire inside where I had already fashioned it in a loop to fit over my head and curved arm to influence the shape of the cone more. It only stood taller and the wired kept falling out due my in experience with sowing. Overall, I just wanted another hat that looked closer to what I had seen in the film or any of the official art work I have also seen. I had already wore what might have been considered okay to the casual observer…..
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Wasn’t happy with the large grey nightshirt I was sent when I brought this on Ebay….
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Adults-Mens-44-Gandalf-The-Grey-Lord-Of-The-Rings-Wizard-Fancy-Dress-Costume-/400861167307?hash=item5d552ffecb:g:HBsAAOSwwbdWHZ0g
More like a dress, hardly very practical for wizard that can pull off all those martial artist moves that Ian Mac Kellan did in the films I had these dumb looking but every cheap grey ugg boots for foot wear that I kept stepping out of and this small pouch that was not made to hold my wallet and card holder. Lost one of those completely when I wore this get up to the premier of the thirds Hobbit film in my home town nearly two year earlier. So, I’m upgrading costume for convention later this year.Yet, going back to today……I also brought a spool of dark grey thread. and sewing kit that had more threads of every colour except what I wanted, bobby pins, sewing needles, a thimble, a pin cushion and some scissors and I think there is also measuring tape as well. I really need my own seamstress, but will try to wing it and just go by what I know of looping thread over and over to attach what I need. I have some vague knowledge of macramé that I was shown by my mother when I was a lot younger. I also remember how to fold over / cross stitch two different coloured paper streamers for what would pass for Xmas decorations when that stuff still mattered. That’s all the know about that sort of thing.And some cardboard, a large sheet of it. It’s heavy duty stuff, that may be good to give the brim some hold. Of course, I am not making mine the same as yours and would like some advice about what I have chosen and about the fusing you have used. I not sure what you meant by that.
This is the best wizard/witch hat making video!
in 2:54 are you talking about the radius, diameter or the circumference?, thanks a lot
This is going to be a great help for when I create a wizard hat. Thank you.
Very nice tutorial ! I have one question : If you wear it in the rain will it get super heavy and change form? If yes is there a way to prevent that?
This is a great video tutorial. Your work is very nice and your hat is beautiful. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Bless you for showing this in an easy to understand way!!! I love that you made a tinnie paper hat!!!!
Thanks for the video! What is heavy fuse?
This is awesome! I just wish I knew how to sow…
thank you very much, I needed help for myself cosplay 😀 Greetings from Canary Island in Spain 😀 <333333333!!!!
Slowed the speed down on this video to help me understand the words. That helped a little.
when you make the cone for the top of the hat on paper, you said to measure the circle and then divide by two to know where to stop, but what exactly are you measure? circumference of circle or like diameter? sorry i just don’t want to mess up 🙂
Hello , how I do not understand 100 % English I tried but did not work! Please would like to create a hat for me and sell me ? I am here in Brazil and take much of a hat like yours. Send me an email: eduardobdl@hotmail.com
This is the only good video around, thank you 🙂
Great video! My Witch hat is beautiful.. to bad I made it a bit to small =[
But thanks for the instruction! ^_^
Wonderful! thank you
Super helpful! Thank you!
cool i might use this for a vivi hat
awesome video! I made a few wizard hats for friends in the past and I’ll be using your technique in the future! It was very easy to follow, thank you!
very nice! thank you for share it!
What if you wanna put a ribbon all around at the brim of the hat? I want my hat to have yellow all around the brim of the hat, but do I stitch it in last?
got my material, but forgot the fusing!. I have never sewn a hat before but I am making a hat for a Vivi ff9 cosplay for my bf. I really like this tutorial will let ul how it goes
great! thank you!!
This is an amazing tutorial, it’s explained so simply and in a way that’s easy to understand. Thank you so much for this!