Bucket Hat — Textiles

Bucket Hat  —  Textiles

In Textiles, we have been focusing on learning about how to understand Commerical Patterns and how to use them correctly. Using Commercial Patterns was very new to me, and enjoyed using them. Although it was confusing at first but not too hard to understand, once I got the hang of it I really enjoyed it and would like to continue using Commerical Patterns maybe in the ongoing years ahead.

What are Commercial Patterns?

Commercial patterns are worldwide patterns issued by the States, Canada and the UK,  used to create a specific piece of clothing for example the bucket hat or a cap. 

What pattern did you use?
I used a Bucket Hat Pattern made by HelloSewing online. Overall, it was an easy pattern to follow and had clear instructions. The bucket hat has 5 parts and we printed out the commercial pattern templates to cut out our fabric. The 5 pieces of fabric are Top, Crown x2, and  Brim x2, the 2 crown and brim fabrics are sewn together to create a ring, the crown gets sewn together with the top, then sew the brim to the edge of the crown fabric. Once those steppes had been repeated for both patterns, I sewed them together to create the product that I have now. 

Textiles (Commercial patterns)

Textiles  - 

Currently, in textiles we are looking at commercial patterns, to further our learning of commercial patterns symbols and techniques we started the project of creating a bucket hat. We have been working on this project for 2 weeks now and I have almost completed my bucket hat and just have the finishing touches to make it look even better. I thought this was such a fun activity and didn't struggle too much with creating a bucket hat although this was my first time creating a piece of clothing. The bucket hat has two layers that can reverse to have 2 bucket hats in one. The hat is created by 5 pieces of fabric (Top, Crown, Brim) using the commercial patterns below, the 2 crown and brim fabrics are sewn together to create a ring, the crown gets sewn together with the top, then sew the brim to the edge of the crown fabric. Once those steppes had been repeated for both patterns, I sewed them together to create the product that I have now. 

Commercial pattern  - 

My bucket hat progress - (Kahciar is my model)