How to make Mario Hats

It suddenly became imperative in our household that I learn to make Mario hats so I looked up tutorials online and then set to work on an amalgamation of ideas to suit what my little Tyrant-obsessive wanted and what fitted within our budget (ie as cheap as possible as he needed them in a range of colours.

So here are the stages we went through to get to this...

1. Get a dinner plate and a tea plate out of the cupboard.

2. Draw round the dinner plate once for the top of the hat and two more times for the rim that touches the head underneath, then cut them all out.

3. Put the tea plate on the two under circles and draw round it then cut that circle out so you have two identical rings ( that look a bit like loo seats)

 

4. You can use part of the middle circle you have cut out to make the peak at the front of the hat.

5. Sew the 2 peak pieces together then turn right side out.

6. Place the peak in-between the 2 rim pieces, pointing back out to the outside edge, easing it round the inner curve and pinning it in place bit by bit.

7. Sew the whole of the inner rim together.
8. Turn the rim right way out bit by bit and pin it to the large whole circle of the top as you go along. The peak should be sticking out in the middle like a large tongue (see pic)

Sew all around the outside edge and then turn the whole hat right way out. Ta Dah!!

Tomorrow you can see the whole range and hear the saga of what happened next!!