Wearable Toad hats

 The hats have been covered, but are still missing the white rounds on them.

We have discovered that it is impossible to fit the whole hat in a selfie, and that we can't kiss when wearing them. The following images are some taken when working on the blue version and some of the pink version.

With the growing size I realized it wouldn't be enough to just trust a good sized head opening to keep them on the head.

The solution was to make a liner out of grosgrain ribbons. That also means that the opening didn't have to fit very tight, since the liner would still keep it from sliding down.

I sewed the lining on to the foam base, with thick buttonhole thread and big stitches, to avoid weaking the foam with the stitches. I then folded the fabric and the foam over the edge and sewed that to the grosgrain ribbon as well.

Time for a fit check. With the ribbon and the fabric folded into it, the size of the had opening had gotten quite a lot smaller. I had to do some cuts in the foam for his hat. For my own hat I wanted to be preemptive and I cut the hole bigger. In fact it got too big, and with a too big headopening the hat slides around too much. It was easier to fix that by simply adding more wadding to the edge, and then removing bits of it until the hat sat snug, but not too tight. On this stage it is important that you don't feel any pain or pinching, I hope my husband was honest when he said it was comfortable (but heavy). If it feels just a tiny bit uncomfortable during the fitting will only get worse when wearing it for a longer time period

Toadette will also have her braids/balls hanging from the hat. For that I have attached clear plastic hooks on the foam base, so that I can attach them to that. I'm hoping that the glue will be strong enough to hold them. Since the lycra doesn't fray I will simply cut a hole for the hook in the outer fabric when it's time to attach the braids.

The final closing and adjustment of the fabric to make it lie as flat as possible was done by hand. It gives a bit of Frankenstein feeling to the seamms, but on the top most of it will be hidden by the white roundel.

Toadette also needs her ballbraids, and with the main hat finished I cut out paper templates to check what size they should have.

And with that it is time to also start on the clothes for Toadbert and Toadette. All in all after the inital building of the hats, the rest has been a more smooth experience than I thought it would be.