hi fedi!

[jepyang@wandering.shop]

@wffl i have made a couple nice ones with a wet-felting process. it’s not something i want to take commissions for, but if you’re leaning toward DIY i am more than happy to infodump about the process in as much or as little detail as you’d like. it’s not particularly difficult or expensive but it is a bit time-consuming and physically demanding. and your first hat or two will probably come out a little bit…”rustic” aesthetically, so if “nice” means “perfect-looking” you maybe want to buy one.

[jackmexa4@mastodon.social]

@wffl

You don’t acquire it, you earn it!

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@wffl I'd recommend felting, or at least working with felt-fabric to give a nice texture to the hat. Here's a tutorial for how to sew one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCB9w70f2UU

[mimesatwork@wandering.shop]

@wffl And another for how to wet felt the existing felt fabric into a hat shape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dZOeSFNLDI

[beandreams@friendhole.social]

@wffl @RnDanger I made one using this Instructables project for a Gandalf hat, if you want something big. Quick and easy!

https://www.instructables.com/Gandalf-the-Greys-Wizard-Hat/

[kate@hai.z0ne.social]

@wffl@im-in.space

Etsy has a good selection of which some might hit your requirements? https://www.etsy.com/search?q=witch+hat&ref=search_bar&instant_download=0

[risperdoll@social.xenofem.me]

@wffl https://garbtheworld.net/products/folk-witch-wizard-hat?_pos=1&_sid=93b8a20b9&_ss=r

https://artisansdazure.com has several, but there's a four month lead time and if you're in the states there might be tariffs etc to pay

[robotistry@mstdn.ca]

@wffl I was going to suggest these:
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4386398778/butterfly-witch-hat-halloween-black-hat
(my daughter has one and it is spectacular) but then you said one to wear every day. Now all I have is Terry Pratchett's Nanny Ogg describing her hat in Witches Abroad:

"It's got willow reinforcing all the way up to the point and eighteen pockets inside. Can stop a blow with a hammer, this hat."

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@wffl I made this hat in about 3 hours … I will share materials and construction in later post (probably in alt text as I can put a lot in there 😹)

[lhaulde@piaille.fr]

@adhemara thanks !

@wffl Yes I do make them, you can choose the color, the size, the material (if it's possible to make a hat out of it)
Estimates are free

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@wffl forgive the underside… I was in a hurry and the piece of green fabric was too small 😿 ! If I took my time with it I would have stitched much slower and had an even piece to cover the underside

[yavien@social.hackerspace.pl]

@wffl https://www.ravelry.com/projects/yavien/a-practical-witch-hat i knit and felted mine (from 100% wool yarn) and its really nice and sturdy and thanks to random increases whimsily wobbly. however, it is thick and very warm bc its felted wool

[wffl@im-in.space]

@JackMexa4 are you implying I'm not witch enough? ^^'

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@wffl These are the general materials…(explanations in alt text)

[thepdog@mas.to]

@wffl Have you looked on Etsy?

[lilahexe@fedi.lilahexe.top]

@Sellerie @wffl can't recommend mine unfortunately: the decorations are hotglued into place.

Looks pretty, is probably stable, but still feels like shoddy craftsmanship

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@wffl A form I cut out of cardboard to measure my head. As you can see my original cutout (the disk in the center) was a bit small, the resulting hole is slightly bigger and not a perfect oval!
I would try this on your head repeatedly and make adjustments, it should be somewhat snug, as you can always trim a little bit off 🩷
Use it like a stencil on your brim fabric (I cut my brim out first and then tried to center the stencil onto the “circle” I cut out.

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@wffl
This was the easiest way to make the “point” . I measured the hole in the crown to be sure I had enough fabric for the base of the “cone” , I then made a general guess as to how long I wanted the “cone” laid my fabric on my iron-on batting, (on a corner 😉) took a string with a pencil and marked a curve. (Ironing the fabric also makes this step easier ). Then you just cut and sew the two straight sides together!

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@wffl The trickiest part was getting the wire to stay on the brim edge and sewing the crown onto the brim. I did cut extra fabric to go over the edge of the brim and glued it there. I think if I sewed it down with one small (as in straight probably a long stitch so it wouldn’t be too obvious) and then sewed the point on then the underside fabric.

[em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social]

@wffl because when you cut the hole for your head on the brim (don’t cut it as an oval just make cuts like a pie, it’ll give you something more to hold onto) you now have to fit the point into this hole, remember this is fabric just laid and glued on the brim form, there’s already a hole of that brim form.
If I were to do it again, I’d sew the point on first then sew the underside fabric (I basically did it all at once 😹) This is another reason why it’s a bit sloppy on the stitching 😹