Travel Refashions #1

 Hello Readers. I am going on a trip to England and I decided to coordinate my travel wardrobe. I am packing all new refashion projects and I will be posting about my journey and my outfit of the day along the way. This post is about a hat to keep the sun out of my eyes and cover up any bad hair days I might have along the way.

 

Before and after.

 

 

This hat was my mom's. I remember her telling me it was packable. It can get rolled and crushed and it will always bounce back. It used to have a pink hat band around it but I don't know where it went. It fell off long ago and it needed a little decoration.

 

The hat had visible glue that I could not remove so I had to cover that up somehow. 

 

I decided to use this brown ribbon. It had blue and yellow flowers so that would go with all my clothes on this trip and it was just sitting in my stash. I love using stuff I have sitting around. 

 

I did some testing to make sure I had enough ribbon to wrap around the hat and make a small bow. 

 

I got my hot glue gun and added small spots of glue to hold the ribbon. I used the glue that was already there as my guide.

 

I started gluing the ribbon to the hat in the back of the hat and when I got all the way around to the back again I glued one end of the ribbon on top of the other.

 

I tied a small bow separately. I wanted to glue and sew it onto the hat. 

 

I put a small spot of glue where the bow was supposed to go. I held the bow in place for 2 minutes while the glue cooled and dried. The bow covers the cut ends of the ribbon and it's fun. 

 

When the bow was glued in place and it was all cooled and dried I used a needle and thread to sew in and out of the ribbon and bow and the hat. I wanted a few stitches to keep it all together and strong. I hid my stitches in the wrinkles of the bow so they wouldn't show.

 

It would be a good idea to use something like Fray Check to keep the ends of the ribbon from fraying.

 

You can just apply tiny amounts along the cut edge and let it dry. It will keep the cut edge from fraying.

 

The new look is fun and will be great for vacation. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.
 

***Follow up review***

My trip was so much fun.- I wore this hat everyday. I am glad I made it. It kept the sun off my head, it kept the breeze from blowing hair in my face and it hid my bad hair days. 

***Year End Update- This hat was so handy for traveling. It helped with the sun and with bad hair days.