Friday 20 May 2016

Stretching a Leather Hat

Haven't been using this leather hat lately, so it has shrunk over time, and it won't fit me now.
With the weather changing, I thought it would be better to stretch this old faithful hat,
 than to get a new one.

So here is what I did.

I found a flexible plastic mixing bowl that would fit my head
(like the ones used to mix dough for cookies and muffins).
Soaked the hat in boiling hot water, and stretched it to fit over the bowl,
and also filled the bowl with hot water


Made sure the hat was well stretched around the edges, then emptied the bowl



Hung it out to dry in the beautiful May sunshine!



The hat must be dried with the bowl still in it




Now I can use my 21 year old leather hat again


 
Have a great long weekend!



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