Hi, my name is Chris and I like to make things.
Today's project: Foam Tricorn Hat.
Let's do it.
Print the pattern pieces for your size of hat.
Some of them will need to be taped together.
I like to do this on a window so I can see the alignment mark of the page underneath.
Make sure you place your tape inside the pattern otherwise when you go to cut it out it's all
gonna just fall apart.
Now get away from all that natural light and go downstairs into your dark basement workshop.
Grab your scissors and start cutting out your pattern, cutting just to the outside of the
black line.
Once everything is cut out, grab a big sheet of craft foam and start tracing your patterns
onto the foam.
Start with piece number 5.
Trace it once right side up and then flip it over, lining up the centre marks and then
trace it again.
When you go to cut, don't cut along that centre line, cuz this is now one full piece.
Pick up the same piece number 5 again and cut along the dotted fold line.
Replace the pattern piece back to where it was, and draw the fold line on to the foam.
Now trace piece number 4, doing the same thing with the fold line.
Trace two of piece 1, one of piece 3 and four of piece 2, flipping two of them over and
labelling those 2A.
Make sure to mark all the alignment points and don't forget to extend them to the inside
of the pattern so they won't disappear when you cut the pattern out.
Now grab a cutting surface and twirl it on your finger if you're into twirling things
on your finger.
Get out your sharp knife and start cutting out your pattern.
Once your pieces are cut out, plug in your glue gun and do some fancy moves with your
silicone baking sheet while you wait for it to heat up.
And then it's time to start gluing.
Glue pieces 2 and 2A together, aligning marks C along the way.
If you haven't seen how I use hot glue on these before, I like to glue a short section
at a time, holding it down on my silicone baking sheet until it cools and then glue
another short section.
If you end up with large, ugly clumps of glue, you can smooth them out with your glue gun tip.
Glue the V cutouts on the two piece number 1s. Take piece 1 and glue it to piece 2, lining
up points B as well as the centre line.
Next line up and glue together point A and then you can glue the section in between.
Take your second piece number 1 and glue it to your first piece number 1, along that short
little edge.
And then glue it in the same way to piece 2A.
Now do exactly the same thing to the other side.
This is slightly more annoying because there's more stuff in the way, but you can do it.
I'm going to flip mine inside out here so you can see the numbers and markings a little better.
However, if I were you I would just keep it the other way because then the numbers are
inside and when you paint over it you're not painting over the numbers.
Here's a little trick I learned if you want to transfer that map drawing on to the foam.
Print it off on an ink jet printer, wet down your foam with a sponge, flip the printout
upside down on the foam and then wet it some more from the back.
As long as the ink is still quite fresh, it will transfer over on to the foam and when
you lift it up you'll be able to see your pattern very faintly.
In order to make these lines look like they're engraved, I'm going to go over and over them
with a ballpoint pen until the foam looks like I want it to.
Flip piece 3 over and at each alignment point make a mark about 1.5cm from the edge.
This is just to line up the centre circle when we glue it to the oval cutout we left
in the crown.
Apply some glue to the front of the circle piece and place the crown on top of it in
position.
Next you can glue the back in place then glue each side and then fill in any gaps between them.
Now is a good time to make sure that the cap fits on your head.
And that you look like a pirate.
Grab piece 4 and 5 and glue them together.
Just glue the first two centimetres or so though along that edge.
It's time to make the crease along the fold line now.
I'll use my scalpel handle to compress the foam along that line.
A nice smooth spoon handle will also work in a pinch.
Once you've got a really good crease along the fold line, you can start to stretch the
foam along the edge which will turn it up at a 90 degree angle.
Grab your brim and if everything went well it should fit perfectly over the crown.
Make sure you line up the front and back seams with the centre seams on piece 4 and 5.
Glue the two pieces together where they overlap.
I like to glue the crown section so its just slightly above the bottom fold of the brim.
Again start by gluing the front and then the back, then the sides and then everywhere in between.
Now it's time to glue the two last seams left on the brim and if those two last edges don't
quite match up that's fine just trim them off with a knife.
Now mark and cut a 2cm wide strip that's the length shown on the pattern for your size
of hat.
If your foam isn't big enough, you can cut a few strips and glue them together.
Glue approximately one third of the strip underneath the edge of the brim.
When you make it back to where you started, cut off the extra foam and glue the ends together.
I've got some 16 gauge wire here that I think is used for tying up plants or something.
I'm gonna start it just past the centre line of the back of the brim.
Start gluing the strip of foam over the wire as you go around the hat.
Just be sure to leave that first bit unglued because once you get all the way around the
hat you'll want to overlap the wire in that section and then glue the strip overtop.
If you want to paint your hat now's the time to do it before you start bending up the edges
because then it gets awfully tricky to get in those spaces.
I would recommend at least three coats of good quality acrylic artists paint.
Now all you gotta do is bend it how you like it, which actually is a little easier said
than done.
If you wanna get the front edge to kind of lift up you need to pull down along that back edge
like I'm doing there.
And that's it!
You've got a pirate hat.
So now you're ready to make your own tricorn hat and you can do so many things with tricorn hats.
You can paint 'em brown, paint 'em black, the list just goes on and on.
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