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How to Make Skully Hats

If you have beginner-level sewing skills, you can use them to upcycle a sweater and turn it into a winter accessory: the skully cap. A skully cap is a warm hat worn close to the head, usually with a ribbed brim to keep it in place and snug around your ears. Use your own head measurements to make a custom-fitted skully cap for yourself today and you'll be warm all winter long.

Things You'll Need

Wool sweater
Washing machine
Dryer
Measuring tape
Scissors
Sewing machine
Thread

Instructions

- 1
  Run the sweater through the hot water cycle and high heat setting on your washing machine and dryer. Do this at least twice to help the fibers in the sweater fuse together well so that it will not unravel as you make your hat.
- 2
  Measure the circumference of your head; call this measurement A. Measure the height from the center of your ear to the top center of your head; add a half inch and call this measurement B.
- 3
  Turn the sweater inside out and lay it flat on a table in front of you. Cut two pieces of fabric from the bottom of the sweater (keeping the bottom hem intact) that measure one-half A wide by B tall. Cut through the front and back layers of the sweater at once to make your two pieces.
- 4
  Cut off the top corners of the rectangles of sweater fabric to round off the top and make it hat-shaped.
- 5
  Use your sewing machine to sew a straight stitch around the sides and top of the hat, keeping the pieces inside out (right sides facing in and facing one another). Go back over your seam with a zigzag stitch, overlapping the edges of the fabric in the stitch to stabilize the seams.
- 6
  Turn the hat right side out and pull it on to wear it.

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