Make a Winter Hat & More

 Hello Readers. I have had a very cold winter in my part of the world. It has been frigid and windy. Bundling up has been mandatory. I have several winter hats and my favorite hat of all was made from a cashmere sweater that I accidentally shrunk. It is super soft and because it is a type of wool. Let me show you how I made it.

I will be cozy warm. 

I measured my noggin to see how big I should make my hat. 

I cut out my hat pieces. Each piece is half of my head circumference wide, plus 1/4 inch seam allowance.

This is the basic shape of my hat. 

I sewed the hat together with right sides facing each other. Then I flipped it right-side out.

I had this pompom in a drawer of sewing notions. I added it for fun, it is just for decoration. 

 

My new hat was done and the hem of the sweater is the band at the bottom of the hat. It looks nicely finished with only a few minutes of sewing.
 

The sweater sleeves can make great mittens. I traced my hand with a chalk pencil. 

I cut out my mittens and made them extra long so they would cover my whole wrist. 

The mittens were soft and warm. But if you cut off the thumbs...

You can make little footie socks. (These are so soft! They are my new favorite thing.)

I hope you are safe and cozy where ever you are. Thanks for reading along, now go make something fun for yourself.