Cat on a Hat

Everyone knows that any practicing witch never leaves home without her black cat and In this case it hitches a ride on top of her mini witch’s hat.
In late 2010, I had just begun to design hat patterns and started out designing mini hats. At Halloween that year I designed this fun little witch hat fascinator with a cat that climbed up to peer over the top of the hat. This is such a fun little witch hat, and I decided to offer a download pattern and tutorial in plenty of time for this Halloween.

To make the cat stand out, you have to cover the top of the hat with a contrast color. I used orange fabric on the cone shaped crown of the hat.

It took me awhile to draw a cat that would climb up the hat. I used flat backed doll/teddy bear black noses in two sizes for the eyes and nose of the cute little cat to give it stand out features. I drew the mouth with a black marker.

This photo shows you how the cat sits on the top of the hat and wraps around. I glued flat backed orange cabochon stones all around the brim outer edge after I added the pleated ribbon braid.

The Spider Witch

Some witches love and collect spiders and this hat is for that kind of witch.

Just because a witch likes spiders, doesn’t mean she is a boring mean old witch so I covered the top of her hat with hot pink satin and the upper and under brim with glitter black felt. I used black French braid on the upper and under edge of the brim and after adding the cat I added sequin spiders climbing up the crown to the cat.