When you’ve finished a crocheting a hat or even knitting one, you might wonder “How to line a hat” to add extra warmth. Usually you’d want to line it with some warm & soft fabric, as fleece. But what fabric you choose is totally up to you.
If you continue reading, you’ll learn how to line a hat with fabric. You’ll get a shopping list or checklist for what you’ll need, as well as a detailed guide on how it’s all done.
As the headline told you, it’s a quick tutorial. Hence this is the no measurements needed, easy way to do it. This can all be done by hand, but some of the sewing you can choose to do with a sewing machine.
So grab your hat and learn how to line a knitted hat or how to line a crocheted hat easily!
Hey! This tutorial can even be used whenever lining other items with fabric.
Related: How to Join Yarn: 4 ways
Related: Learn how to save time weaving in ends (before you actually line your hat).
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About the How To Line a Hat with Fleece Fabric Quickly
Learn how to line a crocheted or knitted hat with fleece fabric.
Project level: Easy
Materials
Below you can find the shopping list or list of what you’ll need when you’re lining a hat with fleece fabric. Remember to check if you’ve already got some of these too!
- Fleece Fabric
With Necessary Stretch - Scissors
- Marker or Fabric Pen
- A hat (Hat Crochet Patterns)
- Regular Sewing Needle
- Pins
- Sewing Thread
With Necessary Stretch
This tutorial can be used for any head size, head circumferences and different sizes, so remember to check if your fleece is large enough for your hat size.
Crochet Pattern Notes
- This can be used for any crochet hat.
- You may want to use a larger needle than a sewing needle because you will go through thick fabric and yarn.
- Some may find a smaller needle like a sewing needle better.
Instructions for the How To Line a Hat with Fleece Fabric Quickly
Step-by-step Photo Instructions
Grab your fleece fabric that you’re going to line your hat with. Cut it in a rectangle and fold it double It should have approximately the same size as the hat.
Use your marker to draw around your hat. Follow the shape of the hat.Leave 1 cm / 0.4 inch seam allowance at the bottom to fold in later along the sides of the brim.No need to take extra time to take accurate measurements, you can achieve a great result with this quick and easy approach.(Make sure the color of the marker doesn't rub of on the hat).
Showing how your traced hat should look compared to the shape of your hat.
Starting at one side, cut along the marked lines to remove excess fleece.
Continue cutting along the whole trace line.
How it looks after you finish cutting.(These steps could be used on any other crocheted item that you've made. Just draw around & cut).
Sew the 2 pieces of fabric together to make a “Fleece Hat” or inner hat. You can choose to use your sewing machine for these steps, but the tutorial shows how to do it by hand.Make sure you have a long tail of sewing thread.
Sew stitches along the side of the hat. Make sure to sew tight enough to make sure it doesn't have any holes. The right side of the fleece lining is facing each other.
When you've finished sewing around the outer end, you don't have to fasten off.
Place the “Fleece Hat” inside your crocheted hat or knitted hat, with the right sides of the hat facing.
Use pins to line the fabric up with the crocheted or knitted hat.
Fold the fabric inwards.
Hold the folded fabric tightly together with the crocheted or knitted hat.
Start pinning the fleece evenly along the bottom of the hat.
Here you can see the bottom of the lining pinned to the crochet hat.
Continue to pin lining until you have pinned around the whole hat.
Sew the fleece fabric to the hat. Locate the needle & thread that you didn't fasten off earlier. Start sewing along the bottom of the hat using the whip stitch.
Continue until you have finished a full round.
The final step is to fasten the thread & you are finished. It's time to enjoy your lined hat & consider adding a pom pom to your hat to finish off.
