Florent flat cap: Cutting Instructions

To make Florent, cut out the following parts:

• Main fabric
  • Cut 1 top on the fold but don’t include the center seam allowance, or 2 top with the center seam allowance.
  • Cut 1 side on the fold, or 2 side.
  • Cut 1 brim top.
  • Cut 1 brim bottom.
• Lining fabric
  • Cut 1 top on the fold but don’t include the seam allowance, or 2 top with the center seam allowance.
  • Cut 1 side on the fold, or 2 side.
• Plastic
  • Cut 1 brim interfacing. Tape the pattern part to the plastic, don’t cut the notches in the plastic, but you can mark it (engrave it, or with permanent marker maybe). You don’t really want any sharp edge, so make sure everything is smooth and rounded a bit (especially on the pointy sides).

Notes

The brim bottom part is inset, while the brim top part is offset so that the seam falls “underneath the brim edge”. Keep that in mind when cutting the parts, and mark them accordingly, so that you don’t end up with the seam on top of the brim (I don’t want to force you into this design choice, I simply want to point out the difference between the parts so that you are aware of it and act accordingly).

If you want to avoid a seam down the middle of the top part, you can cut 1 top on the fold rather than 2 tops and sew them together. The fold line would be the horizontal stretch of the top part, and you’d only have a seam at the right side where it tapers downwards.

A typical Florent layout looks like this: