today I'm going to be showing you how to line a hat that you've either bought knitted or crocheted this is my Huntsman pattern that I really love but I do find crochet hats not quite warm enough so I've lined this one with this plaid fleece and now I want to share with you how to do that to line your hat you're going to need a few things you're going to need a pair of scissors a sewing thread and a needle a product I use liquid stitch or speed so both of these are really good for gluing things together permanently but this is only going to be used on the fleece I do not like the idea of gluing a fleece lining to a project that you've probably spent hours making your hat and your fleece or if you've bought another hat a fleece hat that you want to use to line it with that one thing I strongly recommend is that you pre wash and dry anything that you're lining the hat with the last thing that you want to do is line your hat and wash it and have the inside of it shrink so make sure that anything that you're using is pre-washed okay I've got my fleece here and when you buy your fleece if there's going to be a stretch to it so you can see here that it's stretching quite well but this way it's not stretching as much so you want to make sure that your stretch of your fleece lining is going to go around your head so I've lined up my edges here and laid it nice and flat and it's also been pre-washed and shrunk and all I'm going to do is lay my hat on top if you choose to you can make a template out of cardboard or paper I'm not doing it this for this one because I'm using black and it's going to be hard to see anything that I trace so I'm not going to do it that way what I am going to do is make sure that I include a seam allowance when I'm cutting out my fleece usually I like to do about half an inch so that's going to come out to about here if you want you can measure it all the way around or just eyeball it I'm going to eyeball it my hat will stay um nicely against the fleece because they both have a bit of a nap to it okay so actually just so I don't waste my fleece I'm going to move it over a little bit and I'm going to cut it out I'm going to pause the video at this point and keep cutting it out all the way around and you'll notice that I don't have much of a seam allowance at the bottom and when we're attaching the fleece lining you're going to see why okay thanks okay so I finished cutting out my template here and you can see that it's about half inch all the way around now the next thing that we want to do is make sure that we have the in the right side of the fleece facing each other before we make our liner so on this black fleece it's a little bit hard to see you might not be able to see it on camera but this is the wrong side it's a little bit more faded and just so I can show you if you choose to do a really cute fleece lining like flour or something it'll be a lot more noticeable here you can see on this one this one is quite faded where the right side is nice and bright okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just lay the right sides facing each other again you can pin this if you want but for most fabrics it's not really going to be necessary they'll stay together nicely this is the only part that I'm going to use the liquid stitch on for the liner of your hat it's an easy project and you really can't make a mistake unless you spill it on the inside and don't think any of us are going to do that so this is a great product I've used it for quite a while and your hat will be held together nicely if you're a sower and you have a sewing machine by all means of course so it's urgent I'm a sower I have been for years but when I'm crocheting it's nice not to have to pull myself Ishino unfortunately I don't have a room just for that so anyway I can keep it project easy with little mess it's good for me so all I'm going to do in this product don't use too much of it I'm just going to put a thin layer all the way around and I'm going to glue it down bit by bit just do that spread it with my finger just make a thin Lehren be a little bit more back here okay and you're just going to continue to do that all the way around you're going to line those seams up make sure that they're nice and tidy and lined up together okay and I'm going to continue doing the rest of the Hat and it's going to take a while for this to dry the directions say about half an hour I actually prefer mine to sit two to four hours before I start flipping it inside out or working with my piece I want to make sure that it's adhered well and then it's not going to come apart because the glue hasn't quite cured yet again if you're so ER it's much faster when you're working on a project to sew these up because you can get the hats put together right away you could do it by hand although I don't feel that the sewing by hand is going to quite give you the look that you want when you flip it inside out it's going to be a little bit Messier but that's personal choice and it also depends on what a good syrup so where you are okay so I'm going to let this dry and I'm going to meet up with you again and we're going to finish this hat off and I think you're going to be really happy with the end result so keep gluing it all the way around and we'll see you soon okay um my hat is completely dry now so all we're going to do is this is the right side of the lining and the right side of my finished hat we're going to put right sides of each hat together now I like to make sure that my side seams are lined up with the sides of my finished hat so we're just going to slip that in and line them out I also want to mention if your hat has a pom-pom you want to make sure that it's on at this point if there's any tags I prefer that they're also sewn on at this point the tags tend to look a little bit bulky if you try to put them on afterwards between two two thicknesses but that is personal preference so what we're going to do is we're going to start at the back and I don't have a pin so I'm just going to use my needle here this is going to be my stopping point because we're actually going to stitch this lining all the way around and we're going to leave an opening so that we can flip the hat right side out so I have my needle and thread which I'm actually using this color just so that you can see it better but normally I would use something that would blend in a bit more so I'm going to leave a gap that is probably yeah about three inches so I'm going to start about here and I'm just going to work this let me move in a little bit oh sorry move in a little bit there and I'm going to work the needle back and forth and you'll see I'm taking very tiny stitches and I'm making a very small seam allowance you want to make sure that when you're putting this lining in that you're not taking too much from the bottom of the hat so that your hat isn't made shorter now something else you can do if you're actually making a hat yourself that you're in a line you could always add an extra round or an extra row of knitting or crochet actually has taking stitches a little bit smaller smaller stitches are more work at the beginning but it's going to produce a much tidier finish and I'm just working back and forth now the reason I'm doing it back in for stitch instead of going around the top is when you flip the Hat inside out if you're working your stitches like this you're actually going to see the stitch when you when you flip the the Hat right-side out anyway I'm just going to leave that there it's only one stitch and I'm just going to work it all the way around very tiny tiny stitches catching the lining and the knitted hat okay so just like this so I'm going to keep working now I do want to mention one other thing this is just because of my years of sewing when I have seams here the one thing I want to do is I want to work that seam so that they're both towards the center back another thing that you can do is just clip the corner just a little bit and that's going to reduce the bulkiness of that seam when you're working it okay so I'm going to keep working this all the way around and I'll meet up and I'll show you how to flip your hat right-side up okay so I have finally finished stitching all the way around and you'll see I've still got the right sides facing I'm just showing my stitches there make sure that you have caught the knitted hat as well and now all we're going to do and I've left my little sorry my needle and thread attached because I still need that we're just going to reach in I'm grabbing my knitted portion of my hat and pulling it through and then pushing that through as well so you've got your right side of your knitted hat and the right side of the liner just open up your hat and push it in and voila there is your nice lining to your hat now the last thing we're going to do is just stitch up that hole which I should mention I made mine about three inches because this is an adult size hat but if you're making a baby hat make the hole much smaller and then they'll be less for you to close out I also want to show you one thing do you remember at the beginning when I showed you that stitch where I went over top that's it right there so if you did that all the way around the stitches would be showing up the way we've done it they're nice and hidden so we're just going to fold the liner in and fold a little bit of the hat in and stitch this closed and again I would normally use a thread that was easier to see now we're not flipping this inside out so I actually am doing that stitch I showed you we're just going to sorry go all the way across just tiny little stitches so that they're not very noticeable you can see them there and this will be the back of your hat and we're just going to do that oops all the way around until this is close shut and here at the beginning is I didn't pull that tight enough so pull your stitches tight at the beginning anyway I'm going to finish this off and there you have it a nice lined hat and there's the tag you can see where that's been sewn in anyway I hope that everyone finds that tutorial very helpful and if you do and if you'd like to see me do a tutorial on how to line an ear flap hat please comment below and I would be happy to do that for you anyway hope you enjoyed it thanks so much for watching