Cutting A Long Hair Scrub Cap Out Of A Fat Quarter

This video is in response to a request to show you guys how to cut my pattern for the long hair scrub cap out of a quilters quarter a fat quarter. So I have this piece here that I purchased at my local fabric store. It is originally 18 by 21, but I wash and iron and press all my fabrics before I cut, and this is about 23 inches wide, which is nice, but it actually shrunk a little bit along the grain. So it's a little less than 18, it's more. Like 17 and 3/4 there's now, the first thing that I do is I cut the cap top, which is this guy right here, and I look for the side that is the most uneven of the two. So this one looks like it's more uneven. I see the fraying more than this side. This one looks like it might be straighter, so I will leave this side for the headband for peace, but I'm going to cut this last because it's just a straight piece and I have a bit more wiggle room. I'M gon na set that aside, I'm going to go ahead and take the part that's more uneven. So in this case I know that my piece measures on the food for inches, so I'm going to fold up in the part - that's bigger, which is this side to make sure that my tool goes up four inches, I'm going to go up here, I'm going to Basically measure so that it's four inches and you have to be pretty tight, there's not a lot of wiggle room here so make sure that you measure in several places that it's four inches there is about four a little less and here it starts to shrink. But that's okay, it's less than four, but remember that this is on a curve. So it's okay that it's less than four as you taper down. So I'm going to go ahead and place it here on the edge on the fall, I'm going to go ahead and cut it, and this is my top, and this is my notch. I had to not wrong in the file initially, but it now it's correct. If you were to download it, so I don't pin the fabric because I'm so used to it at this point. But you are more than welcome to do so and, as a matter of fact, I'm gon na slide it over because I have extra fabric. If I have extra fabric for this, I tend to give a little bit extra here for more hair. You don't have to do that. This is plenty, but if I have extra like in this case, I'm gon na slide it over and just eyeball it. If you don't feel comfortable with that, then just close just cut on the line and you'll be fine, so I'm just giving a little extra and I'm going to basically taper off into nothing. When I get to my notch, which was one of my elastic it's going to go, then I go along the pattern piece. So that's my first one and before I lift my pattern, please I'm going to go ahead and notch here, just a little notch. We want it to be too deep and then this notch again it would ideally be on the black, but I'm gon na do it on the new one that I marked and I updated that on the psi little notch. Okay, I'm gon na set that aside, I'm done with this piece once you're done, cutting that piece. You'Re gon na cut your fabric in half and you're, going to try to align this, or this is a little uneven here and we can address that later, if necessary. So on the fool I'm gon na take my piece and outside now this fold clearly can't be here, because this is not the fold, so it needs to be over here. So you have one of two choices: you'll either put it like this, so you can't see it, and this is okay, because there's no notches and you need to worry about so you can put it like this. But in my case, because this is a straight line and I still need to cut the headband ties, I'm actually going to put it upside down and the design of the fabric allows me to do that. As a matter of fact, the vines are going in both directions, so it works just fine. So I'm going to line it up here and I'm gon na go ahead and cut. I'M gon na turn my fabric and then I start cutting and I'm going to cut this mine all the way past. My pattern piece. If you are not confident with this, then you can just leave it alone, but I'm going to cut straight to the end. Okay and before I turn it, I'm just going to go ahead and a notch here as well. I'Ve put a notch here, even though I haven't cut the top, yet I'm gon na turn. It make sure that my fabric is still in place. I'M gon na cut here I'm gon na turn. Again, I'm gon na finish. Cutting now I have to meet some updates, as I mentioned, to the pattern thesis and I will try to put a video before you explaining why, when I get a chance okay, so that's it no other, not just besides the top and bottom, which I already did So I can set this on the side so now. This is a piece that I have left to cut out my headband by now. I'Ve included this as a pattern piece, but I don't actually use it as a reference, because this is three inches tall. This is meant for, ideally, if you have a whole width of fabric and a surplus amount of fabric, but since we're dealing with a fat quarter. Basically, what I do is I measure what this is is 5 and 3/4 here and about 5 and 3/4 here and I'm ignoring the piece here, that's bigger, so this section is 5 and 3/4. Now I need 1/2 of 5, which is 2 and 1/2 and 1/2 of 3/4, which is 3/8 so basically about right here. So this will give me 1 piece of my headband, and this other piece will give me the other piece of my headband. So I'm going to do two and a half and 3/8. This right here gives me the width of the headband that I need to cut now. You can measure this with a pencil and ruler and all that I kind of eyeball it. But again it's a matter of how confident you are doing this. Ideally, you want to take the width that you have left after cutting the other two pieces and divide that by 2 and that's what you're going with so since mine is 5 and 3/4 and know that I need to cut it 2 and 1/2 plus 1/2 of 3/4, which is to me 8 so 2 and 7/8, basically, is where I'm going and I'm just going to put my measuring tape. Snip, I'm gon na go again here and smoke there again. If you are not confident with this, you can mark it ahead of time and at this point eyes usually stop and then I fold up, and I line this - make it nice and straight and then use the top of the fabric as a guide to keep cutting And I'd: do it again the guide cut some more and then put it at the end and finish cutting okay and then I'm going to do it again with this piece make sure that it's even now, I can just lay this one on top and they're pretty Much going to line up you can see that here, they're, pretty good and over here I have the extra I'm just gon na cut that off they should be just cutting the one layer, because the other one measured pretty accurately just like the top one. So now I have two pieces that major the same, and what do we do now? This is a little off, so we're going to fix that. But it's okay, it's just a hammer. So at this point, these two pieces that are exactly the same, I will take one of them and I'm going to slice it in half. So I'm going to go in here and cut this right here. So what I've just created are the two pieces I go at the end of the headband, so I've got this one and I'm going to attach one on this end and one on the other end. The reason I like to do it this way, as opposed to just having a seam in the middle. So if I had taken this piece - and I hadn't cut this one, but I had left it whole and just attached it - I would end up with a seam smack in the middle of your forehead, which I don't think is very pretty. So I like to keep this piece whole and then I add these two on either end like so one here and one here and that will go past. My headband side I'll show you how that piece lies, so they're basically going to go like this. So the added piece is going to go past this and on this side just the same past it, which is a good thing, because I mean that you get a whole headband piece with no seen for the duration of the cap, so to speak. So that's what I do at that point. If you want to know what to do from here, then you can go to the description below and follow my tutorial for assembling a long hair scrub cap. If there's anything else that you want to see or if you have any questions, you can post a comment and I'm trying to get back to you as soon as possible. Thank you so much for everyone that has been commenting on the videos and I do hope that they continue to be of help to you, and I will see you next time. You