How To Make A Flat Front Bouffant Cap For Long Hair Or Ponytail

Good morning, starting here, okay, so today, I'm gon na make these blue font caps. When we put them on at work, we kind of have our ponytails in the back, and then we wrap the ribbon up around top. So it kind of does the ponytail it's a flat front cap, so there's not a lot of ruffling or anything up around the head, but it covers the ponytail nicely. So I had some requests from some girls at work about these. So we're going to try to make one today and I've looked at some other videos and some patterns, and I think I don't know I've just come up with kind of a simpler, more streamlined way of making it. You come out with the same hat, so the girl I'm making it for chose this fabric out. So what we're gon na do then we're just gon na get started. All of John is a template. This is an 8 inch, so it's 8 inches all the way. We'Re going to fold the fabric over 4 times and cut on the fold so that we get a 16 inch circle, so 16 inches in diameter. Let'S get started okay, so I hope you can see that little chalk mark there and then I will just cut it with my favorite scissors top of our hat we'll go ahead and set this aside and let the I guess you call it the brim. Okay, so I've sewed right on here made sure that my ends were even I've now got my seam and that's just gon na hold the same flat, make sure it doesn't unravel and it'll give some nice top stitching on the other side. Okay, so one way that you can make sure that your that your seam is gon na look even on the outside of your hat. I lined up the inside of my presser foot with my first original seam and then I'm just gon na keep it keep it. Nice and lined up Thanks wrong for the next step. I just went ahead and ironed over this him on my cap to be a width that will take my ribbon. I'M getting use a one inch ribbon because that's what I've got and I'm going to go ahead and put buttonholes on either side of my hat, so the ribbon has a place did to come out. Okay, I've marked my buttonholes, where I want them to go. Proximately 3/4 away, I'm the center seam, it's a half an inch off of the little outer seam that I sewed and my buttonhole is going to take up pretty much the entire width of the brim. One more thing: when you're doing your buttonholes make sure you unfold the brim of your cap, because you don't want the buttonhole to go through both sides. You only want it on the inside of the brim. Rub precise on this um, this hot, very forgiving, and then I'm gon na make another mark see ten inches this side, okay for putting the ribbon in I'm gon na. Take my wonderful bodkin. I really like this thing. Let me go ahead and put it in here holds on to it. Well, it doesn't matter which end you go through, I'm just going to go ahead and just choose an end and I'm gon na feed it through my casing. I'M going to make sure I come out a little bit beyond doesn't have to be that far, but a little bit beyond. Oh my little chalk line and then I'm gon na pin so that when I'm filling with it, it's not gon na come back out. I'M just going to go ahead and place a pin just so that I can make sure that it doesn't flip out or anything. I can take my marking off and then I can just use that chalk line and sew right up here. I'Ll go ahead and put my other ribbon in and get it positioned where I want it, and that way, when I do sew up, I can just turn and sew all the way around the rest of the brim. So I didn't want to show you this part. I'M just icicle gel is gon na crisscross my ribbon, so this ribbon comes out and goes this way. This one I'm gon na come and just try to feed behind and get behind it, and it will work itself out. It just makes the drawstring a little more secure. I have both my pins in place, so I'm gon na go ahead and sew up this line and then I'm going to come around go around the rest of the brim of the Hat. Okay. Now we're done with this part of our hat for now, you'll see the drawstrings are on the inside of the Hat and they'll just cinch up like this, so you won't even really see all this stuff if you've got some wonky seams. If your buttonholes don't look wonderful they're on the inside, so it's not gon na show and now we're gon na go ahead and start working with the top of the hat. Now, for the top of the Hat you see, we've got some nice pleats in the back. I have one that I did with three plates and one that I did with five. It'S really up to you, especially if you're making them different sizes. This one I'm gon na, do about five or we'll. Try it we'll see how it works out, but I'm gon na try to do five about one-inch pleats, just like I did here alright to do my please. I'M gon na find the center of my fabric and I'm just gon na try to pull some over. I make Ida about an inch pleat. I try to match up the edges so that it stays a curve and I'll just place. There'S my first pleat. So this is just a temporary line of stitching okay. Now I'm gon na attach the top of the hat to the back of the Hat, so I'm gon na put right sides together and this time we've got to make sure that we have our raw edge up. That'S what's gon na attach to the top I'm just gon na match the insides out and pin and we're just going to go around matching our insides and pinning okay. So I've pinned almost all the way around. My hat and I found I have extra fabric here. So he just kind of wanted to show you it's just really easy to deal with, because I started painting at um, I'm at my cleats, then this extra fabric I have - I can just make another pleat if I need to and then it matches up perfectly well. So I can just go ahead and pin down, add an extra plate and then go ahead and sew my edges, okay, so I just made an extra pleat. I matched it. I tried to match it up so that it was the same size. I made sure it went the same direction as the others. So now, yes, I have six pleats in this hat and yes, it is gon na be a little off-center, but that's alright! It'S going to be on the back. It'S gon na be all scrunched up and you're. Never gon na see it. So you don't have to worry about that. You don't have to take off all the top and repin or anything. Now we're going to go ahead and just sew with a quarter inch seam allowance and we are essentially done with this hat, so you can see where I based it and we'll want to take this out this little line. You'Ll see, that's no big deal, otherwise you can see. We are essentially done on the inside steam. Some people take pinking shears and go over this. Some people zigzag. I have a serger, I'm gon na Serge, my seams, and that's it all. We have to do after that is try it on and see if it fits you