Leather witch and wizard hats

 My husband and I wanted unique hats to wear for cons. He specifically wanted a leather Rincewind hat from the TV miniseries The Color of Magic.  I had already made him the robe but he wanted a new hat.  

Rincwind and Twoflower 

I found a really neat leather hat pattern from LeatherHub patterns on etsy. This pattern has the strangest looking shapes! Based on the recommendations in the pattern, I used a thin veg tan leather for the base.  Once the pieces were all cut they had to be punched.  There were so many tiny holes, the punching took significantly longer than the cutting. Once cut and punched, I dyed the leather red and left it to dry for a couple of days.

Wizard hat, cut and punched

Wizard hat, dyed red

LeatherHub patterns has videos to compliment their patterns, which makes it super easy to understand how they go together.  The pattern pieces fit perfectly and it went together very easily. I stitched it together with red waxed artificial sinew.

Wizard hat undecorated

Once it was finished it needed the word "Wizzard" and a bunch of stars.  The text description in the book states some of the stars were falling off, so I did not glue all the corners on all the stars. It also states that the large star on Rincewind's hat is a 7-pointed star, so although the TV show used 5, I went with 7 points on the central star. The stars and letters are cut of a gold patterned leather and glued with leather glue.

Wizzard hat

 

I also made a witch's hat for me using a different LeatherHub pattern, which went together just as easily!  For my hat, I dyed it blue, but wanted it to look older, so I underdyed it with some black in streaks first.  I then covered the hat with rhinestones before stitching it together. The rhinestones are essentially 2 part snap together rhinestones for leather work that I bought in bulk mixed colors. This makes the hat a bit heavy but really fun to wear.  

Leather witch's hat

I am really finding leatherwork a lot of fun right now and am loving some of the great patterns I am finding online to try out.