Your hat probably already has a stitched edge on the brim, I guess that’s the cheap way to make straw hats, mine looks like it was stitched at about 4 stitches to the inch. If you use a really tiny stitch you will be essentially perforating the page, and your hat will probably crack along the stitch lines. (Backwards because you probably can’t get the crown of the hat through your sewing machine’s throat.) The most important detail is that you don’t want to chew the straw up more than you have to, so set a good long stitch length. ![]() ![]() Just slap some patches of fabric down and run your sewing machine backwards and forwards at 3/8″ intervals, or whatever suits your hat. If your style is eclectic, then patching a straw hat with cloth is easy peasy. More importantly to me, really, I don’t have to throw this hat away. Or, it is at least me, eclectic! And I don’t need to spend the money on a new hat. ![]() This straw hat has blown off my head a few too many times, and there were large holes and cracks developing in the brim.
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