Real-Time How To Sew A Scrub Cap With A Ponytail Using Fat Quarters Or Scraps

Hey there, it's Nathalie, welcome back, is this crazy time or what my gosh there's no fabric ribbons buttons bias tape sewing machines, Amazon is sewing machines and our Walmart is at the sewing machines and QVC and HSN have just like tiny little bits of very expensive sewing Machines left, oh, my gosh. Is it a sewing revival? How long will it last who knows anyway, so I ventured out with my mask, of course, to our Walmart and what they had left was two little packages there. It is two packages of fat quarters this one that was already broken. It still had its tag on it and they had this two little bundles and I'm down to scraps and I've dug deep in my stash. But I was decluttering and getting rid of a bunch of stuff, but it didn't get rid of everything. So that's been a good thing anyway. So what I'm going to show you today is how to do the pony tail scrub cap using fat quarters or use what you have where you're at what is that quote, do what you can where you're at with what you have. So that's what I'm going to try to do today and show you what you can do and I'm going to show you two ways: one on the ties using elastic and then one with no elastic so y'all don't go away! It'S it's gon na! Do I'm gon na do real time because I end up with so many questions, so it's on it, so you can fast-forward through stuff I'll put some timestamps in the description box below so head of time. I want to ask you thank you for subscribing. If you haven't already subscribed, please subscribe like and share and don't go away. Okay, I want to show y'all something real quick. If you don't want to watch this at normal speed, you want to slow it down or you want to speed it up. So it's real faster to rewrite hurry, get to the end of it. I'Ve got stuff. I got to do anyway when you open up your YouTube. My YouTube video hello. I am click on settings that little gear right there and you'll see playback speed normal or you can slow it down or speed it up. So didn't know if you knew that was there. That was new for me and on your cell phone. It looks a little different so on your cell phone then get this. I'Ve got it opened up here. There'S three little dots up here and it brings up the same dialog box. That has your playback speed and then you can choose what kind of speed you want on that. Okay, just you needed to know that! Alright, if you went to my website and downloaded the pattern, the ponytail, the scrub cap with a ponytail, so it comes in three three sheets: you'll print it to the actual size and then cut it out on the bottom part. I left a little bit of an edge right here to tape this together, so I am going to go ahead and do that now. This is my first one ends of Mac. The marks don't meet up, but that's a that's okay. I know where this needs to be so I am just going to use this as my cut apart pattern. The new patterns that are on the website, or accurate, they're right and so you're gon na be good to go. Alright, so, and I've got two that will let me go ahead and finish talking about the pattern all right, so when I've done this before in to do it two parts I have used about fourteen inches for the for the top part of the head. If you could see me wrap my hand around my face around the head, that top part okay, that's going to be here, it'll make sense in a second. You can take this piece. Get you a piece of regular copy paper fold it in half put that on there cut around mark around or just cut around, either way that you want to do it that way, you don't have to fool with the goals you can just have it like that. Alright and then I also made a couple of cheater pieces. This is my cheater for the buttonholes, and so what I did is I just took a piece of cardstock and I had to make sure that I marked the front on both sides like right there and there that's the front. So whenever I mark my fabric anyway, so what I did is I took a piece of cardstock and then I marked my buttonholes all right and then I have an also another piece that so I'm gon na turn my fabric over did. My front is like that. Then I have another piece of cardstock that I have cut 6 and 1/2 by 2 and 3/4, and that is for the button placement so that like if you went up to the top of the hat top of the cap after it's seamed together. That'S where your button would go right, 6 and 1/2 by 2 and 3/4. What I'm going to do is take this. This is my second printed one and I'm going to since I'm going to do it like 14 inches, I'm going to measure down 7 and 1/4, because I need 1/4 of an inch for my seam allowance. My junk scissors, I don't cut paper with my good scissors. My kids would tell you they'd get their little high knees. Well, we won't talk about that, because that was from back in the day in the 60s and the 70s anyway, don't use your good scissors to cut your paper with all right. So now what I'm going to want to do - and I can either do this with paper or and I'm gon na - make me a note to add a half an inch. So so that's gon na give me a seam allowance going this way. So this is not gon na make this too short, all right. It'S gon na be a long video, because it's gon na be real time all right. Let me set that aside for just a second and talk about the fabric. I'Ve got two fat quarters. I'Ve already washed them in hot water, dried them and pressed them, so they're, not wrinkly, and so that I can deal with them. So fabric has two two grains it has. This doesn't have a selvage on it, but if like when it comes from the Fed, the factory it has edges on it that have like little pretty dots or names of the company or just a mr. edge. That'S a finished edge. That'S the selvage so, and I know that this would be if it had a selvage. This is it because this is a straight grain and it doesn't stretch it might pull just a tiny bit, but this is the cross grain and it has quite a bit of stretch. So the part that goes around the head - the top of the head - I like to cut that on the cross grain because it gives it just a little bit more give and stretch and fit also alright, so I know that I've got an effect. Quarter is actually most fabrics are 42 to 45, so it's usually 22 wide and a half a yard 18 inches. So that's what a fat quarter is alright. So now the decision is, what do I want to be on the on the back on the little heart-shaped piece and at the top of the head, and I think actually that I want this, because this is what's going to show mostly. I think I want this. So I'm gon na check my cross grain. This is going to be my the top of the head and this piece - and this doesn't seem to have like a particular pattern that it's following, so it's it doesn't really matter. It is I'm gon na follow this. In half in the cutting process, it does not matter if the pretty sides are together or not, but just for now I have this with the pretty side, where they're facing each other we're going to put this on the fold, and I actually I don't need to Put it on the fold and then have this wasted here, so I am going to move this down a little bit find where my fold would be and again I'm on the cross grain I'm on the stretchy part of this. So that's about where the fold would be. If you were going to do this lined you would just cut two of these and see. I still have some more so I'm going go ahead and go just a little bit further and I'm on the fold of the fabric. Right. There is the fold it says fold, so I'm going to pin that to the fold of the fabric and it tells you right here cut one on the fold. I tried to second-guess all of the questions, but I've missed a few things in my process and when you've been sewing as long as I have sometimes you forget even what we would consider really simple things so and since there is a sewing revival going on, there Are no sewing machines anywhere. Lots of people are learning how to sew, and this is a good little beginner project, because it doesn't take a whole lot of details. Okay, alright, so this is going to be our top piece and this has a kind of a little bit of a curve and it does - and this is the front edge, because it's straight and it's got that stitching on it. So I am going to dip just a tiny little corner so that I will know that this is the center back of my top of my head piece. Alright. So now I have this extra piece and this one doesn't really matter whether there's a catch she's. Wanting to get it doesn't really matter whether it's straight or sideways okay, so it doesn't really matter as long as it's not like, I'm not going to cut it. This would be at the bias and there's like a lot of stretch on the bias, so that that's another other lesson. So I'm just going to cut it like this. Go ahead and pin it in place and if you wanted to put it on the fold so, for example, if you didn't do this, and you had just this and again it doesn't matter whether the pretty sides are together or not. You could just fold that in half and can your mind conceive of this - that you can actually turn that over and still cut that you can actually do that or you can make the whole one like that and do it that way so go ahead and do This doesn't matter that the pattern is up or down as long as it's on the fold. If you feel like you have to be able to read the print, then you can turn it this way. But let me tell you about this: if you're gon na do that, let me show you what I just did a while ago, probably being too tired and it wasn't paying attention. Let me grab it real, quick. Well, I don't see it, but I cut a crown piece out of a floral and it had stems, and I had cut this piece with the stems going. The flowers were upside down, so I had to recut that one. So that's the only thing that you really need to kind of pay attention to. If it has a pattern, it has a direction to it. You know you don't want the horses running down the back of your neck right now. Maybe you do want the horses running down the back of your neck. I don't know anyway, so here's my fold of this and I'm gon na go ahead and dip a little notch in that also make sure I don't cut my fingers and that's gon na match when I get ready to sew it's gon na match to the notch. That'S in this part, but that's in the sewing part alright, so we have the top part of the head and the heart section at the back done now. We need to cut the pony tail part and again with the cross grain. Now I am gon na cut this on the fold, but I'm not going to cut this on the fold. I know that doesn't make sense to you and you're gon na think what the heck is she talking about. I don't want to cook this twice, alright. So what I'm gon na do this is my cross grain. This looks like does it matter which way it's going? I don't think it matters which way it's going, but it kind of looks like it needs wants to go this away. I don't think it matters. I'M gon na go this way. Alright. So again it doesn't matter whether you can have pretty sides together or not cross grains going this way, that's what I'm kind of paying attention to right now and I have a little note here and a half an inch fabric. It doesn't matter if it's the fold, I could turn it this way. In fact, I think I'll turn it this way. So you don't get confused about what do you do with the fold? So I'm gon na go here and pin in and y'all I'm not being sarcastic. Just answering some of the questions that I've had that that y'all have asked okay, so I'm gon na go ahead and cut I'm not going to cut across this yet cut this straight. You already know how to do all of this stuff. You can just fast-forward through this part, alright, so to cut into this little notch. I can come from this side and cut it in which is usually what I like to do, or I can just fold this sideways and cut around like this. Alright and the other thing I need to tell you is if you decided that you hit that you needed a bigger ponytail now you probably need to do this here and here to do this, but you can take you just own a piece of paper. You can come from this point, come out about an inch or an inch and a half and come down about an inch and a half. So what you would do on your extra piece of paper not from this notch, you would come over to this fullest part. I think I would do an inch and come out about an inch and - and so then you would just kind of angle that from here out to about an inch put an inch here, an inch here and an inch here. That'S for a big fat ponytail. But that's another, I'm not we're not doing that in this video, just giving you some information, alright, so I'm gon na go ahead and finish cutting this around go alright! So now I have these two pieces and they're going to look like that, and then I have this top piece. This is my curved edge and I know it's my curved edge because it has a notch at the top and there's my notch right there. So this is where the words going to matter pretty sides together all right. So this is my curved edge because it has the notch - and this is my curved edge because it has the knotch so you're going to want to - and this is a straight edge so line this up on the straight edge right there and right there and we're Going to pin that in place and we'll go to the sewing machine, okay straight edge cross here, pretty sides together straight edge. There we go and we'll go to the sewing machine and sew that together all right, my presser foot. This is about a quarter of an inch and that's the seam allowance on here is a quarter of an inch, and so this is mm just a little under maybe ish. Not it's not 3/8 probably need to do it in centimeters anyway. So I'm going to stitch a couple of stitches forward whoops it's on zigzags. We don't need a zigzag couple of stitches forward and backwards, that's called a back stitch and that just keeps it from coming unraveled and I'm just using this edge of my presser foot. As my guide you can use, oh there comes the cat sit down girl sitting right. There got ta love those fur babies back and forth all right now, you could, if you wanted to, without lifting anything up, go ahead and grab this other side of this and put it right up next to here, and I'm not sewing very far without the without Fabric under the presser foot back stitch, get the pin out of the way and back stitch again help my hands were not in the way. I move my camera to a different angle. So so now we have a quarter inch seen I searched my edges and now I want to top stitch. So I've got both of those edges surged and I want, and it doesn't really matter whether it goes up or down. But I'm going to turn mine where the seam is towards the top part of the hat. Okay and I'm going to just do a little closed edge stitch and the same thing I mean I - and I don't have to back stitch here because there's not going to be any pressure on this at all and probably now with all of the stitches that are Going across there we probably don't have to back stitch, but it's just a habit that I've gotten anything. Okay have my cheater and I have some marks begun around here someplace, but I'm not for sure and look at here. What I did you see what I did that says the front: that's there for a reason. Let me turn this back to the front back to the front. That'S almost like Back to the Future, and I'm just going to mark this with a pencil there, and I can see that and just flip that over find a little Mark's and mark with a pencil. I have some little pieces of interfacing that I've cut and you can see they're not very big, it's just a little bit to stabilize behind the buttonhole, and so, if I hold this to the light, just a tiny bit, I can see through this fabric - and I Can see where that interfacing is opinion? Now this buttonhole is going to go through only one layer of fabric, and it is not for the button. It is for the top of the casing of where you're going to put your ribbon or a tie string through whatever you're going to use to cinch up that ponytail. So just through the one layer of fabric and it's easier. If you do it at the very beginning, alright, my machine has a buttonhole, I'm not gon na put the buttonhole foot on here, but on I am gon na. Do my buttonhole adjustment set the width and you can I'm not going to do that as an instruction? You can do look on your own owners manual. Oh, I know what read the instructions are you kidding me? Do we have to do that really? Sometimes alright. So I'm going to line this up in the middle, I'm gon na go ahead and pull my pin out. I'Ve got that interfacing underneath this is my reverse for my buttonhole. So when I get to where I want to go and it does its bartack and then it goes in Reverse. If I hand out of the way - and I'm just going to kind of watch and see where I'm coming to, let go of that and then it finishes it up all right make sure my interfacing is under there and not curled up underneath find my middle. I'M going to put my needle down in so that I could pull my pin out. You can change thread colors of what I'm doing right. Now is a lot of stuff that I have that I want to stitch in white. I'M gon na go ahead and get that was done right. There put that back up, cuz, I'm through with my buttonhole, and so what I want to show you on the back whoops of the buttonhole. Do this back out of the way I'm going to trim this excess off, so don't need that and then to cut the buttonhole open, you can do it from the front of the back. I like to do it from the back, no particular reason why and then just kind of clip into that fold it in half clip in to make sure you don't cut your stitches and if you want to you, can trim this this excess away too, because it Doesn'T it's not important now this was just to stabilize the buttonhole and that's why I was talking about because this folded under a little bit, but it's not a big deal, we'll just cut that away. I have gotten so many comments. Compliments ideas and you all that are sewing them for the people that are on the front lines. You know it's like how do we serve? You know standing at home. This has just been the such a huge blessing for me to be able to to bless you all to bless your family members and your friends and co-workers with scrub caps. Your pattern has two markings on it. You'Ve got a dot right here. You want to transfer that to your fabric, both sides both of those will curves and there's a dot in the tip of the crown piece, alright and so you're, going to transfer that and it's right here and I'm gon na, pin that only just this one side. So I have all of this rest of this length here and my notch is here. You can pin this all the way around if you want to, but I'm going to show you what I do and it mate and if you decide to do it like I'm doing it might take you a couple times to get the rhythm right and you may Put your stitch length long, so if you have to take it out, it's not going to be a big deal to take it out, but but because of the stretch in the fabric and because we cut it on the cross grain. This has stretch because that's bias. This has stretch this has stretch because it's on the cross grain we're going to get into an area right in here that there's not any stretch and then at the top there's going to be stretch again. So we're gon na we're gon na we're going to do a little bit of stretching as we stitch alright. So I'm going to put my needle drop, my needle down into that area right there, where that dot is go ahead and get that pin out I'm going to do a couple of them. Do a back stitch couple of stitches forward Press that down a couple stitches back and I'm gon na pull on this bottom layer a little bit to ease this. There'S no gathers in this part of it and I'm not putting a whole lot of pressure on that. Now and as I come around this corner, I want to work this top this fullness, I'm not pulling on the top at all on the crown part at all and I'm gon na watch. There'S my notch and there's my notch and see if I'm going to kind of come out even here, can you see that there's my notches and I'm just putting some pressure on it again on this bottom piece, and so I'm going to continue that all the way Around doing them the same amount of pressure and manipulation coming around the bend gosh announce me of Oh folk songs should be coming round the mountain when she comes. Oh, my gosh where's that a flashback still pulling on this just a little bit, manipulating that in I'm on that straight edge on this part now, and it doesn't have any stretch to it at all, make sure you don't stitch your finger. I'Ve done that before. That'S not fun alright! So as I get here, I can kind of see that I'm going to end up just about right. This needs a little bit more pull for me to end up with the dot. That'S on this bottom, with the dot on the top. So here we go, we're are almost finished with this part, I stitch right down to that dot back stitch. This is how this is going to look you're either just going to be touching or almost touching right there, and so on the right side. This is how it looks. It'S got this little piece right here, but I'm going to show you what to do with that in just a second, so that little piece I'll show you what to do is that, but right now I'm gon na go Serge. I like using, I like using the surgery to get me a nice clean edge, but you don't have to do that. You can zigzag it or you know, use pinking shears or something like that. Alright. So, on my other video, what I showed you to do was to come in here and stitch from here down around this way, but what I've discovered that I like to do since I've made some of these a bunch of these now. Is I like to go from the straight edge of the cap and work back into that little point and again because we're working on kind of stretchy fabric not stretchy fabric, but but the but the bias edge of the fabric? This works pretty good, so I'm gon na stitch forward and backwards. You can pn this even that up. Alright, as I come around to where this little thing was, I send about I'm going to pull this out to make sure I don't get it caught in my scene, so it kind of does a little fold. It'S not really important. It'S just out of the way because I'm gon na I want to stitch right to that right there that stitch right there and back stitch. Okay. So that's what it looks like when you bring them together and on the right side. Let'S see if I did this right, this is what it looks like on the right side. So you've got the little puff for the ponytail. You'Ve got that caught. The little tip is caught there, alright, and so now I'm going to Serge this and then we'll do the band for the front part of the cap right to do the band. You can press this if you want to, but you don't have to. I am going to measure I'm going to do it an inch and 1/4 and put a pin, but I'm going to turn it under like 1/4 of an inch and you can. You can measure it to make sure it's an inch if you want to just be OCD about it or you can just make sure that it's turned under, but that's about what I have allowed for that turn under it's about a quarter of an inch and whenever I get around here to the buttonhole that buttonhole is going to be right on the edge and that under - and I may be a little bit off on this. So that's just a little bit over an inch, not quite an inch and a quarter. Maybe an inch and an eighth and then my centre front. I want it at an inch and a quarter. There'S the center and there's my inch-and-a-quarter. Let me move that so that you can see that's my inch and a quarter. I was surging the edges and then turning it down and discovered that it takes me just as long to just turn it and get a nice clean finish as it does to search that edge, and so this will turn under just a little bit a little quarter Of an inch turn: okay, I'm gon na go ahead and stitch this in place, and I'm gon na just turn this as I go, you can pin it, but I'm just going to show you this, so I must start at the bottom of the ponytail part. My hand, out of the way put the needle in pull that pin out. I don't need this one anymore and make sure that I'm not going to stitch to the rest of my cap and I'm just going to use my finger to push that under that little quarter of an inch and I'm just taking a little stitch. And it close to the edge stitch, that's what I was a little stitch. It'S an average length stitch but justjust just close to the edge there's a ton of videos out there for doing this, I'm just one more of the patch. Just each of us doing our part, so I got to looking about and during the war the big Wars about people on the homefront saving Greece, and I thought, did they just that, just something to do to occupy their minds, while their husbands and their boys were Off at war, and no it wasn't it, they actually used that Greece that people turned it in and they used it in the munitions plants. So it was actually a real. It was a real deal, so it wasn't just something: to keep your hands occupied, get their minds doing something that they could do at home to help out back stitch to stop. Now, while I'm here, while we're in this section, I am going to go ahead and turn this and there's our little button holes for our casing to go through for this forms. The casing I'm going to go ahead and mark where the buttons need to go. So I've got it folded in half line this up, and I've got this this one, that's six and a half by 2 and 3/4, so it doesn't really matter it doesn't whether it's the front of the back or the it's not like the other thing. There'S no pencil and put a little mark flip that over there we go. I wan na cut I'm going to cut some ties instead of using ribbon because if there's a shortage of ribbon and there's a short of it of elastic, so I'm going to show you an alternative now, if you want to use ribbon and elastic, you can watch My other video and you can see how to do that. So I'm just going to kind of even up my edge here, I'm still on the cross grain of the fabric and I'm going to measure 2 inches flip this back over and where is my 2 inch mark there? It is right there. Okay, go this way trying to see which side I want to cut from there. We go there's one. We cut two pieces of this and you can go a little bit wider if you want to. If you wanted to go, you know an inch and two and a quarter inches or even further than that. You could do that. So now I have two pieces, and this is going to make my ties. I'M going to stitch this together at the end right sides. Together on one just just like that, and then I'm going to go to the ironing board, so I'm gon na stitch this together right like that right there quarter-inch, and to make this time I'm gon na press this seam open. I just went and stitched that will quarter-inch seam there. Then I'm going to fold this in half and press it and then I'm gon na fold it in half again now I go the entire length, but maybe you can see without me doing the whole entire length on how to do this. Alright, so you're gon na press this and then on the other side, and it depends on what works the best for you. You can press from this side and move your iron over to this side going into that fold and if that doesn't seem to work for you and turn it around and press from the front side. Okay, whatever works for you, however, it is once you make a couple of these you'll kind of get your own rhythm going and the other thing I want to show you is the finish of the ends, and so you're going to turn this in and press it And then turn that back again there and there and then fold it in half and press that again and then we'll go and Stitch this I'm going to go ahead and finish pressing this the whole entire length of both of those pieces of fabric - and this is What we're going to use as a drawstring, instead of so I don't know if you could see me so I'm pressing the whole thing again all right and then we'll stitch this. This is what we're going to use as a drawstring instead of using ribbon and elastic. This is all pressed and ready to stitch. I have those ends turned under like that and then maybe just come took some of that little extra roughage in and because I'm going through, 1 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8 layers of fabric. I want to just kind of walk this to start off and I am not changing my thread. I'M gon na go ahead. I could have changed to pink, but I'm gon na go ahead. I'Ve got top stitching on the band in white, so what I'm gon na do is go down the length I'm gon na go back with the back stitch round, get to that corner and pivot got threads everywhere and just do the entire length of this pie. Now this is not where I'm going to end, so I don't really have to back stitch, but I think I will just so that the two ends match get to the corner pivot and because I've got the I don't have to do. This is just an extra thing and there's our time now, normally, if you're using elastic, you would have three and a half inches of elastic and you would measure up three inches and that's where you would put your mark for your elastic. You know. So it's all bunched up, but we're going to pretend like we don't have elastic anymore, because mostly we don't have elastic anymore. I think maybe Amazon has started shipping some elastic and I still have some that I have for did from before. Anyway, big safety pins we're going to go into this all right. We could feel the fullness of our middle. We want that here too. That'S gon na be a whole lot of fullness back there, but that's okay. There. It is right there so as it starts to come through, and I can feel that with my with my thumb, I can feel where that thickness is it's right there. So I'm getting really close and it doesn't have to be like right smack on there, but I would sure, like it pretty pretty close all right so now and I don't I'm not gon na try to stitch through. All of that I can feel the fullness of that. Seam is right over here. If y'all are wondering about that, I've got a broken nail and since the you-know-who's are closed, that nail salons are closed. We'Ll put that on there to keep it from snagging on everything. I'M sure you were wondering about that. Why does she have a French manicure on one thumb and not on the other? Oh well, anyway, so right here, I'm gon na stitch in the ditch or close to the ditch and catch that tie. So what this is going to allow, instead of having the elastic to draw that up, then just the tie will cinch up to go around that ponytail. So you don't have to have the elastic it's nice. If you do, but if you don't, then this works. Let'S get that untwisted there, it's okay, there we go alright and then so this is going to. You would put your buttons in right here and whenever I put a button in, I put a peep and I'm not going to do that on this video. I am gon na put a button on here, but I'm not gon na. Do it on this video because you know how to sew a button off. I sure hope you know how to solve that. No, but I'm gon na put a piece of interfacing right behind that, so that would be so it's not just holding it straight into the fabric, so it has some little support for that button. Okay, okay, I just want to say thank you so much for watching it was a little slow. I slowed down quite a bit. I still need to sell the buttons on this using two fat quarters or some of your scraps. If you haven't downloaded the pattern it's over on my hall, closet comm in the resource library and again, you have to subscribe to my website. It email list to get the free pattern, but of anyway like subscribe here and over there and give me a little thumbs up and I'll see you next time. Y'All stay safe and stay well. Bye,