Witch hats have come full circle! Two years ago I published a guest blog post here on how to make your own witch hat, last year I used that tutorial to make my loblolly witch hat, and my friend Classic Andi (on Instagram) used these inspiration pieces to make her own autumn witch hat. Inspiring and encouraging each other, this past year she and I have been making a witch hat for every season. Mine were tall and pointy with a wide brim, hers were short with a narrow brim. I loved her creations and asked her to collaborate on a blog post with me showcasing our individual styles for each of the four seasons. And then I digitized her measurements to create a pattern and make my own smaller witch hat like hers. Next year we will share our full outfits for each season, but today we’re sharing our hats! [Links to relevant tutorials and free patterns are below.]
Classic Andi: Hats! I’m a lover of all hats – they are a fun way to dress up an outfit, hold your hair back for yard work, protect you from the sun, or stay warm. Such a versatile piece of clothing! As I’m sure you all noticed, the witch hat had a huge boost in popularity last autumn. You could even buy witch hats at major chain stores! I didn’t have any witch hats and thought, “Hey, that would be fun to add to my collection.” Enter Sheila of Red Shoes. Red Wine.
The original fabulous witch hat (2019) 
Red Shoes. Red Wine.’s loblolly witch hat (2020) 
Classic Andi’s autumn witch hat (2020) 
Red Shoes. Red Wine.’s pine witch hat (2021)
Classic Andi: Sheila’s witch hat tutorial dropped mid-October last year and her hat was just so fabulous! I was inspired to try my hand at making my own seasonal hat. I followed her tutorial, choosing a green felted wool as my hat material. It was fairly straight-forward – cut two large donut shapes & stitch together on the edges, then cut out cone shape for top of hat and sew to middle of the donut. See the blog post for actual details and instructions: How to Make Your Very Own Fabulous Witch Hat
Red Shoes. Red Wine.: The original tutorial allows interpretation by the maker and can be made custom with varying shapes and sizes. Since I posted the pattern for my tall, pointy hat with a wide brim, I asked Andi to share her measurements and piece dimensions with me so I could post a pattern here on the blog for her shorter, narrower brim version. As we highlight the seasons below and link to the patterns sepcifically, we’ll refer to hers as small and mine as loblolly (a species of pine tree local to my area).
FALL/AUTUMN
Classic Andi: I wanted to make an autumnal witch hat – specifically not Halloween. I wanted a fun hat that I’d wear through the whole autumn season including October and November. I chose some orange trim out of my stash to start the decorations, then added lots of pumpkins, acorns, and leaves. Basically, raided my local craft store’s flower section haha! I really liked the blanket stitch that Sheila did on her hat, so I chose contrasting orange embroidery floss and did the same to my hat’s brim as a pop of color. Then it was done! I loved the hat so much that I wished I could wear it all year! Which of course is when I thought, well you could make other seasonal witch hats, you know? You have the ability…So I did!
Red Shoes. Red Wine.: I wanted a witch hat to wear with my pine cone costume for Halloween, so it was constructed with felt remnants after cutting and painting pine cone scales for my dress. I painted the fabric similarly to the scales and used surplus craft supplies from several prior projects to finish out my hat, including cutting pine needles off of our door wreath. I hadn’t planned on wearing the hat with anything else, but didn’t rule that option out entirely! More on my hat here: Making My Loblolly Witch Hat
WINTER/YULETIDE
Classic Andi: I followed the same basic pattern for each of my 4 seasonal witch hats. All of them have some form of foliage – be it flowers or leaves – and a ribbon or trim at the hat base, though I tried to add something different to each one so that they weren’t all the same. My winter / yuletide hat has decoration wrapping around the crown of the hat and includes sprigs of holly with a cardinal.
Red Shoes. Red Wine.: Holly…genius! After Andi made her winter hat I decided I wanted one too! Our Texas Renaissance Festival here has a Celtic Christmas themed weekend I’ve never been to, as well as Dickens on the Strand in December so I also decided on making a yuletide costume inspired by ice berries, specifically deciduous meadow holly. I used extra curtain panels for the fabric and surplus supplies on this witch hat as well. More on my hat here: Making My Holly Witch Hat
SPRING
Classic Andi: For my spring hat, I wanted more pastel colors so I went with a baby blue wool felt and pleated the ribbon this time as an extra detail. I also included an adorable squirrel and birds with a bird nest as those things remind me of spring (plus they are super cute!).
Red Shoes. Red Wine.: At this point, Andi was just showing off and running circles around me (haha). I was rightfully in over my head with my bluebonnet costume, which is why the post on our seasonal witch outfits will have to wait until next year. Anyway, I made my spring witch hat very quickly with commissioned felt Texas wildflowers, burlap, and a lovely reproduction buckle. More on my hat here: Making My Texas Wildflower Witch Hat
SUMMER
Classic Andi: The summer hat was the most difficult because I switched up the wool fabric for burlap – I was going for the aesthetic. However, all it did was cause problems! I do NOT recommend burlap as a hat fabric! It frayed all over the place, would not stay lined up with my liner when sewing and was very difficult to push the brim wire though because it kept popping out through the loose weave of the fabric. I finally got it finished and threw on some brightly colored butterflies and a big sunflower. Now I have a fabulous, over-the-top witch hat for every season!
Summer 
Red Shoes. Red Wine.: With the pressure off to create a hat and costume for each season this year, I flew through my summer with hat in about an hour. I used fabric cork (yes, real cork), a brown fabric remnant from a long ago costume, artificial lavender sprigs, and a vintage buckle. Like Andi’s stubborn burlap, I had a few crinkles from working with the cork fabric, but think that effect on both our hats turned out quite lovely. Besides, if you’ve ever met a witch who wasn’t disheveled by the awful heat of summer, she’s obviously faking it! More on my hat here: Making My Cork Witch Hat
Loblolly witch hat 
Small witch hat
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Red Shoes. Red Wine.: Thanks for following along! If you’d like to join the coven and you’re no-sew, as most people are, there are a lot of cute hat bundles on Amazon. My favorite 3 pack is this one: Cotiny 3 Pack Halloween Witch Hat Kinitted Wool Witch Hat Wizard Hat for Women Large Brim Crochet Cap for Halloween Party Cosplay Costume Accessory (Color Set 3)
Otherwise, check out the instructions (and free patterns) for each of the two witch hat sizes below. A special thanks to Classic Andi for sharing her artistry, and for keeping me on my toes! And stay tuned next year when Andi and I will share our seasonal witch outfits.
(Loblolly) tall, pointy, wide brim witch hat: Making My Loblolly Witch Hat
(Small) short, narrow brim witch hat: Make Your Own Seasonal Witch Hat
And the original tutorial for drafting your own pattern: How to Make Your Very Own Fabulous Witch Hat
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All very very cool hats!!!!!
Thanks Ms P!!
Sheila,
Thank you so much for the entertaining sewing and costuming posts. The other day I had a very early Dr appt which required I stay up all night. I found there wasn’t anything in particular I wanted to watch on TV, so I started reading my way through your sewing posts starting with the earliest. That night I got thru the first four pages of posts and before I knew it the night was over, so thank you.
You are incredibly talented and should be proud of how much you have accomplished. The McGonagall Yule Ball dress is fabulous. The Peli Motto is just as impressive, even though you didn’t build it from scratch. And your Loblolly witch is as cute as a bug’s ear, as my Gram used to say. But to be truthful I have enjoyed them all, and if I am not mistaken you may have jump started my creativity which had died as a result of the pandemic. Thanks.