How To Make A Hat Bigger
Fill a spray bottle with water.
How to make a hat bigger. Biggar Hat Store is located on the Historic Town Square in Decatur Texas. Use a high heat setting but dont completely dry it. Secure the elastic on the hat with small pins and try on the.
Take a look at the inner liner band of the hat and measure how wide it is. To take a 23 up to 245 you may need to thicken up the block by around 6mm all round perhaps two 3mm felts will do. Use your hairdryer to dry the hat partially.
A commercially available hat stretcher would be the best option but a soccer ball basketball or bowl would work as well. This is the most important step as the damp hat material is now malleable enough to widen around the circumference of your head. Biggar Hat Store is filled with old Singer sewing machines hundreds of antique hat blocks and an assortment of hat making tools that are extremely rare.
You can at times re define them by hand once off the block depending on skills and material used for the hat. Now try the hat on and see if where you have placed the. Because hats are stretchy you can knit one thats 1 12 inches smaller than the actual head circumference and it will still fit just fine.
Rip back to the last increase round and proceed to add needed stitches from there. Pull the hat gradually over a round object slightly larger than your head. This should not be done at the center of the hat do it closer to the back where it will only take up a little space.
With some slight and simple alterations you can make that big hat fit your small er head. Hold for one minute ensuring enough steam reaches the hats inside band as well. Wear the hat so the material adjusts to the size of your head.