Corinne Leigh: Oop! Here we go, just a little bit faster, that's perfect. Hey! Everyone welcome to ThreadBanger Projects, today's special. To save a little bit of energy this week, we decided to power the entire episode by bicycle. So if Rob stops, the show stops.
Rob Czar: As you know, bicycles are some of the most efficient and eco-friendly forms of transportation. So this week to help celebrate, we have our friends over at Rocks and Salt design, show us how to make a cycling cap.
Corinne, just let me know when you are - when you want to switch.
Corinne Leigh: Yeah, sure.
Phil: Hey there! I am Phil.
Sara: And I am Sara.
Phil: Together we are Rocks and Salt. You know, we got started I guess about three or four years ago, we started making hats, as we were trying to get out of cooking. We were both National Food Cooks. We basically do two season, the spring summer and the fall winter. Today, we're going to show you how to make your own cycling cap.
First thing you are going to need is your material. Sara found an old skirt. We are going to start by measuring, chalking our pattern pieces. First thing you want to do is be looking at the wrong side of your material. Since I want two pieces that are same, I am just going to fold this over, so I can cut them both at the same time.
The length of our bands is going to be 23 and three quarter inches. I'll go ahead and chalk my line 23 and three quarters, going to go ahead and mark that one-and-a-half, one-and-a-half on the other end, so that we can finish chalking this band. Once you have your rectangle chalked out, and to cut.
Our second pattern piece is going to be the shape of a circle. Now we came up with a brilliant way to make a circle. I am just going to take our circle and now folded it in half. As we are going to need two equal pieces of this pattern piece as well, I am going to take my material again, and just fold it in half. At this point, you can use any handy thing to hold your pattern piece in place, because what we want to do, is add one half inch to the bottom of each side of this half circle.
Now we got our second piece. This third pattern piece is definitely the most tricky. What I want to do, is start with a straight line that measures eleven-and-a-half inches long. I want to go ahead and get myself a little indication of where the center of eleven-and-a-half inches is, which is 5 and three quarters.
On each end of this measurement, we are going to drop perpendicular line. The first one is going to be three-and-a-half inches long. One and three quarter inches on each side. The second one, is going to be a bit longer. It's going to be three and a quarter inches on each side, equal in six-and-a-half. Now you want to just connect these lines. The last line to measure and draw, and this guy, one line in the centerm measuring 1 and 7/8 on each side.
Now we got to have a little fun and just do some freestyle drawing. We want to put a nice little arc all the way in this baby, and from here to this corner, it's almost a straight line. So for one of the last steps of this piece, I am going to give myself a little marker here at three quarters of an inch, at the top of this long side of the pattern. And then I am going to draw myself a nice little arc again.
Now once you to have this guy chalked out, you want to cut wide around this leaving yourself enough room to continue to work. Fold this in half, cut the nice little arc I have drawn. This is our third pattern piece.
For our last piece, we are going to measure a straight line that measures seven and three quarters inches, I am going to give myself a little mark, so that I can measure two inches out, and then we are going to get our freestyle again, and draw an arc that will be our brim.
Now you are going to need two of these so I'll just use this one as a pattern piece. Now we have our four pieces. So for the very last cutting, we are going to need to do, you grab your piece of trim, and you want to measure that 16 inches, we can start selling, Sara.
Corinne Leigh: Well, well what's going on here.
Rob Czar: This is ridiculous. I am going to take a break.
Corinne Leigh: Alright.
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Rob Czar: Corinne, Corinne, stopping the bike.
Sara: So first thing we are going to do with our pieces, is take our long band piece, and fold it together face-to-face, and we are going to sewing all of our pieces together at one quarter inch seam allowance.
Next, we want to iron them open, here we are with top stitch, two bands. Next thing we want to do, is sew our brim together. We'll have our two pieces, which we are going to put it once again face-to-face with our piece of trim on the inside. We want to iron our brim open. Now that we've got our brim ironed, we are just going to run a top stitch around the arc.
Next thing we are going to do, and this is going to be probably the trickiest part, is sew our side circles onto our center piece. This wider part is the front of our center piece, so we'll start sewing this side onto the center from the top corner, putting the circle facing down, everybody face-to-face, and we'll line this corners up, and go. It's impossible to pin it, so we are going to go free hand.
If you have a little bit left over, that's fine, just when you start your next piece you'll start from the back and put it, starting with the last one ended. This is the shape that you should have. We almost got a hat.
The next thing we are going to do with it, turn right side up, is to just iron the seam nice, so that it's going toward the circle. We'll turn that inside out, and we are going to run a top stitch right along here, top stitch both sides on the circle side, and this is what it looks like.
Next thing we are going to do, is attach the band to the hat. We are going to start by taking the band and folding it from the back seam to the front, over this chalked line in the center of the front here, on the inside, you can match it too. And now taking one of the bands, putting it face-to-face to the hat. Now we've got our bands sewing on, we'll take another trip to the iron board and just iron it, straight back inside out, and we'll run another top stitch on that. We'll take our brim, fold it in half to find the center and match our center creases together. So we want to just use a big basting stitch for this, do it super close to the edge.
Now we'll take our second band that were sewn together, and we just want to hem it down about a quarter inch or so.
This is going to be a liner band, we are ready to sew our hat together. So we'll put it inside out, and once again, fold it in half from the back seam. Our brim down and our hat right side out, we'll pin it right to the brim. After you've sewn your two bands together, we are ready to finish our raising, straight. First thing we are going to want to do, is get out of our seam ripper and make a little incision right here at the back.
Next we need to pin our strip down, now to slip the strip right in the hole that we've just made. Anytime you have this stitch, you just want time off, and pull them in, close up the little hole that I made for this by stitching back over it, and then we are going to iron this inner band around to the inside, and run a top stitch, right around the whole hat.
Phil: Thanks for hanging out, for more check us out rocksandsaltdesign.com or - -
Sara: rocksandsalt.etsy.com
Phil: Happy cycling.
Rob Czar: Oh! That's it for this week.
Corinne Leigh: Actually no, it's not.
Rob Czar: What? Didn't we?
Corinne Leigh: So May is National Bike Month, and there is a lot of great green bike projects going on. Be sure to check out RocktheBike.com for some awesome sites and links, like the band GingerNinjasm that travel 5000 miles from their home in Northern Californiam to the pyramids of Southern Mexico, all on bike.
And there is also FossilFool, the bike rapper that takes this custom made slow cycle to the streets of San Franciscom to not only partym but to spread the sustainable word. There are also a number of ways for you to deck on your bike, DIY style. Check the ThreadBanger blog for our favorites, and that's it for this week.
Rob Czar: Are you sure about that?
Corinne Leigh: Be sure to leave a comment below, and tell us what you are doing to help out there at this year.
Rob Czar: Is it over now? We'll see you next week.
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