I felted a beret with one of my best friends and we're now in the final stage and we're adding finishing touches. I wish there was some way I could show you!
wow! cool pattern thanx so much!!!!!xx i have been wet felting for years with my whole family and my mum even did it in my school once!! i have only just learnt how to do seamless and cant wait to show this pattern to my mum!!! thank you so much!
Wow, you did an amazing job with this video with precise explanations and tips. Spoken like someone with years more experience....you really did your homework!! Thanks for the great tutorial! My mom wore a beret every day of her life, in later years after retirement. I have them here somewhere, probably in storage and not easy to reach. I really want to make one for myself. I'm felting in all genres now, after just a couple months, and people have been giving me unused wool, freshly sheared, a carding machine, the works so I need to get busy (busier)! THANKS for this!!!!
This is the best take on that other lady's video tutorials. well done. 1 felt beret completed just yesterday! :) Thank you for simplifying the process.
i love felting...i spent an entire summer doing it....all you need to do now is to get some hat forms...so that you make all of your favorite vintage styles
Wow, this is the first tutorial I have really wanted to attempt!!! I've dreamt of owning a beret but they were either too small, too pricey, or the color I wanted was too inaccessible! This looks like so much fun! I can't wait for the windy gusty days and nights to hurry to my part of the states!
Thanks so much for the video!! I have done much with felting and currently recycle sweaters. My son wants to make a beret and we'll have a good time trying this together.
Most specialty yarn stores sell wool roving, and most people who buy it are looking to spin it, not felt it. So if you're searching for felting supplies, try searching for yarn spinning supplies, and it might lead you in the right direction. Generic craft stores don't normally sell roving, so try looking up a local yarn store. :)
I know this was uploaded a long time ago, but I started making felt 2 years ago and this is one of the better wet felting tutorials for a hat I've seen. (I've made witch's hats and beanies before but keen to try berets too¡)
I had no idea how to do wet felting. It was a mystery before. Thank you for this amazing video! Your grandma's hat looks like it may have has an elastic band inside it, which may have eroded over the years. A lot of old hats had latex in them which shrivel up, yellow and crack. Gust guessing. I don't really know what happened but I'm glad you have a fancy new one and I appreciate the video. :) I would be happy to make a neck corset one for you some day if you want.
Yeah, I had a lot of old hats from my grandmother and a couple did the same thing. As well as a couple of vintage skirts from her. I think they had the elastic with latex in them too.
I think this is now my new favorite video from you. Thanks for showing us! I love felting, but things like this always seemed too complicated... now I know how! Keep up the amazing work. So proud of you guys. :) Hope your vacation was great--you deserved it! (&, it's "beret".)
Great Tutorial! With your grandmother's hat, I kept thinking maybe it has to do with the way it is stored given its age because as a kid I remember my aunt wore a lot of felted style hats she purchased and was very formal about keeping the hats stored in tissue paper (like when you stuff new shoes with tissue or a purse you put away in a cedar drawer etc. to keep it from getting moths); I wonder too if you wet felt something can you reuse the felt without the trim for a new hat?
Oh my god! I have been looking for a good tutorial on wet felting for a while now and I just figured that no one had one up! I'm so happy to find this one. Now I can pair this with the how to make a hat block episode and I can make a hat for a costume and spend a lot less money.
Cool! I already wondered about when wet felting would come in your episodes - it´s quite fashionable here in the german DIY-Scene, I think. We did babyshoes, flowers, cufflinks, anythink wet felted. It´s nice to do it with friends, because you can chat while doing it, it´s not so boring than. I wouldn´t use cardboard for the inner circle, but some plastic, like from table mats, or at least cover the cardboard with a plastic bag. Did you know you can wet felt in the washing machine, too?
Thank you for this amazing beret demo. I searched for a seamless beret video and yours is he only felting demo i found. Most have seams. Is your Grandma's beret a woven wool? If so, it looks like it got wet and shrunk. Remember those plastic pleated rain bonnets women used to wear? Maybe she wore one of those to not let it get wet? Just a guess. Thanks again. I love your brown beret.
I’d kiss it too. You did a wonderful job. Thank you. It’s useful information. I think you’ll be glad you made a thick one as it becomes thinner with time. I think you GGmothers one was set upon by moths. But didn’t a really good look. Was it dusty and kind of Web like filaments in side where the holes were MOTHS! It looked like it had a leather band that had failed. Check under the remaining band to see if any pupae are there. It’s bares the signature of MOTHS though. My scarf looked the same and it still had a few chomping away at it stuck in the wardrobe but on an open hat stand they can get away to more profitable grounds for their next stage of the life cycle that doesn’t involve eating heirloom berets.
Nice beret. Looks like it would be alot of work. I'm still trying to figure out how the felt stayed together without needing glue :) I will be checking out the website you recommended and thanks for sharing :)
At what point should it have shrunk? I have attempted it twice and they are roughly 12 inches in diameter. Is this wrong? What can I do to make them shrink to an appropriate size? Wonderful video by the way! Thanks!
you can get a similar effect if you crochet a hat like you did in your past video, but use a wool yarn instead and just throw it in the washer and dryer when you're done.
That is really great episode, I wouldn´t ever thought of that, I would just lazzyly buy peace of felt. I have to try to make this now. Well, I love berets too and I washed mine in washing mashine and it didn´t do it well too...
So, I followed this tutorial - sizes and steps, except for the number of layers where I had about 4 medium thickness, and the huge problem that I had was that the round opening for the head, although cut the correct size, became immense, gigantic.The problem was created when I removed the resist, it widened at that point. So to make it wearable, to fit my head, I had to full it by throwing it in the bathtub thousands of times, to shrink all the piece together with the hole. Any other sugestions?
Hi threadbanger,I am sure I have seen on the net,how to unshrink a woolen jumper.Yes something like lay it out and iron, something along those lines.Also these days they have tiny irons u could use to iron inside the hat and stretch out again.U must try to save grannies hat some how.just look up how to unshrink a jumper I'm sure u ll work it out.Havent read all u coments just found this wen looking how to felt.Best of luck from Tracy.
awesome. . .the resist for the opening seems rather small anyway. Should we not go by the measure of our heads?? Thanks for sharing didn't realize the process was so. . . .involved. BTW that vintage hat looked like it suffered dry-rot. Most older folks stored their hats in hat boxes, no?
Sorry about your grandma's beret, Corinne, that really is too bad. However, this was a WONDERFUL video and I can't wait to try it out for myself. It looks like it isn't too complicated, but will be a fun and not too difficult of a project! I would love to learn more hat making tricks and tips for this winter, too... :D
That is hard to tell what happened to it, but always store your wool in protective compartments and maybe it won't happen again... The corrugated resist was a great idea, something else r=that can work is wood flooring underlayment too, and it is reuseable. Great video. ;]
Super cool! I like this video because to my knowledge on threadbanger we haven't seen much like this before!! As to your GGMA's hat I don't know... but since it is felted, could you not wet felt the shape back into the hat like you did in the one you made... and remove the trim and add some new stuff??
be sure u don't felt the top&bottom of the hat together after removing the cardboard try rolling it around a foam pool noodle if u don't have mats for fulling small knitted objects, i use a bowl of hot water and some icewater. add soap in the hot, scrub the item with your fingers/rub it against itself dip in the cold water to close the wool cuticles and shrink it ,repeat alot U can try your chances at felting in a washing machine -not for this hat though-only strong knitted/crocheted items
woah thats freaking awesome! i might have to try that sometime. i love berets! i wear them all the time. and i love Shaun the sheep! that made me smile when i saw that :)
Sorry about your Great Grandma Mitchell's hat Corinne. :( But I'm sure she'd be uber proud and impressed that you made your own! Great tutorial and really great hat!
Thanks, Corinne, for a nice project. I wonder though, how to make that little "piton" on the top of the beret. I haven't found anything relating to that on the web, nor even whether it's really called a "piton", which is what the local French-Canadian folks call it. Cheers!
Brilliant!! I have a thing about hats: they should NOT fit too snug! Seeing as how I have a giant brain and all, this will be so much fun and I can custom-fit! Thanks, and your grandma would be proud!
I love creative people and I learn a lot from this channel. Thanks for the info. Sorry, about GG-ma beret. I am sentimental and look my ancestor's articles. Could you repair it, or was it toast?
Huh. This is actually pretty cool. I might do this. My grandmother has sheep, maybe next time we sheer, I'll take a little and it'll be TOTALLY DIY. From sheep to hat, 100% made by me. :D
Forgot to mention my aunt stored the hat in its original little cardboard box with all the tissue paper from the store she got it from and kept them on her closet shelf where they did not get much light.
