Female: Hey there everyone! Welcome to the show.
Male: So last week over on the forum, sothatiswhoIam, sends you on a hardcore sewing tutorial, Scarlett, ScheMerel, Iamgoingtoeatthatfishgirl, Muffin Madness and Dizzy all said they wanted to see more independent designers and over last week show comments Missewthernbelle and wonderpets both ask for hat ideas. So hats plus a hardcore sewing tutorial plus an independent designer equals this week show.
Female: How to make a hat out of an old pair of pants, with guest designer Liz Tilley.
Liz Tilley: My name is Liz Tilley and I live in what is called Liz Tilley designs. I make hats, garments, aprons, beaded flowers and accessories. Today, I am going to be making a hat and a pair of shorts out of a pair of trousers that I got at Buffalo exchange. And we are using old pants that have been in the bottom of the – I am going to get rid of these or throw them away pile, it is easier to iron them first. I know more or less that I want the shorts be fairly short so just cut them off. And there you go, shorts. It is good now to figure out which in this going to be going around in my head. Where you are going to measure to get the head size measurement is 5/8’s to an inch above the brow, that is just a typical head size, this end appears to be 21 and a half which is exactly my head size, I am looking at nine inches from the bottom so that I can cut it off. In this case I am just going to cut the seam off. So I am going right now to stitch in some gathering stitches, I will be using the longest stitch that my machine has. I am feeling that I am doing two lines of stitching for gathering because I am going to be grouching, so now I am going to stitch it together and form a tube and I am going to go back to my normal stitch length, so that this seam is strong enough, iron this open, now go back to the long stitch length and again just stitch along like seam allows this to hold them down. Gather together the needle thread and the bottom thread and I am going to tie a square knot. This top piece is going to need to be gathered. Not actually very much, only in inch. So what I am going to do is decide where is the front and the back. I am going to flatten out the piece as much as possible, marking center front and center back on both the bottom and top edge of the tube. And I am going to turn this inside out, I measured the width of the remaining fabric at the narrowest point of this mark, so I now I will not exceed. And now, I am going to trace around the pattern, cut this out using a quarter inch same allowance on along the bottom but then for this top I am actually going to use a half inch same allowance, because it just cost a little more material to work with. I want to give the bill somewhat stiffness, I am just going to use two layers of --, we are going to stitch all over this to make it stiff so that I can put it inside the bill, you are going to stitch the bottom, feed bill together, now I will flip it, inside out, now I stick this in here, it is all pinned together, top stitch it, I am going to cut out the tip which is the top part of the hat, what I am going to do is cut out in a oval that is seven inches long and five inches wide. Then I draw a line that is more or less along the grain then fold-in in half and pin it and sketch an oval, now I am going to cut it out, leaving a half inch seam allowance. Because I am using stretchy fabric, I am going to cut out and ironed down a piece of iron on interfacing, so this I am going to call the back, and this is the front, and on the view is cut out little V’s all the way around here, I cut this out because when working with curve lines, it is the best way of make things fit together.
Male: Whew! You want an intense lesson, you got it, when we return, the rest of this week’s tutorial.
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Liz Tilley: So I pinned now the V’s and the V’s and the F’s and the F’s and then the two sides together. And now I am going to pin the rest of the way around and finish pinning the tip on the side now and I am going to stitch them together, I am just kind of turning it in and straightening it from the inside as I go around. Press the seam to make it super flat, it is just to make the seam allowance go out toward the side band. I am going to edge stitch around the seam that I just sewed two inches to when I start pulling this gathering stitches that they say. Again, keeping the needle threads and the bobbin threads together in a pair and I will hold the needle threads and pull the bobbin threads. The rooshing part the gathering particularly is really time consuming and it is really important just to be careful and not break through it then to tie it knots so that they are strong and also I am going to leave a seam allowance in the bottom of ¾ of an edge, tie a square knot, and making the front bit three inches long and then the back fit four and a half inch long, center front to center of brim from the seam allowance line out like this. Now I am going to stitch the brim on. So now the hat is more or less put together but what I am going to do is put in a head size ribbon. Pull it over to 5/8 of an inch and I pinned it into the back over lapping it about 5/8 of an inch, I am going to stitch right on that edge there and then just so one layer and then basically press it in to the inside of the hat. And when I get to the bill, I am going to make sure that I am stitching below the attachment plain. Fold the ribbon to the inside and press it. So then, there it is, a little cute hat.
Female: A big things to list for hooking it up with this week’s lesson. Do you have anything you want to see us make? Email us at Tips@Threadbanger.com.
Male: So last week we raffled out two jenome magnolia sewing machines at the Renegade Craft Fair in San Francisco. Now for the big announcements, the winners of the two jenome magnolia sewing machines are raffle tickets number 473 and number 689. Do not worry if you lost your tickets we will contact you in an email.
Female: And next week we are going to take a look at our trip renegade, so you definitely do not want to miss that.
Male: Until next week, see you.
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