As you can see, this pattern also includes the vest and shoe patterns, but we’ll save those tutorials for another week. For this week, I’m going to show you how to make the pirate or Colonial-style hat.
If you want to make the pirate hat, you might like to review my satin stitch embroidery tutorial from a couple of weeks back, so you can create the Jolly Roger embroidered image on the hat’s front flap:
Of course, it’s always possible to find a Jolly Roger patch to sew on your hat or use your machine embroidery tools to make one. The tutorial, which I’ll post tomorrow, also suggests that you can skip the embroidery altogether for more of a traditional Colonial-style hat, like the colonists wore during the American Revolutionary War:
So please stop by again tomorrow, when I’ll be posting my newest YouTube video, showing how to make this cute little pirate or Colonial-style hat for your Project MC2 dolls!
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