Good day, my fellow Hivers. I trust you are having a good day. My Lagos Hivers, how are you coping with this 25-day blackout in Lagos? It's like it's only my area, Ikorodu, that it affects mostly.
I want to share with you all how I made this beautiful Zara cap design using aso oke.
I made a dress for a client of mine, and she was also okay with it, but she doesn't like tying gele, so she prefers making it as a cap, so I decided to make a Zara cap for her. And this kind of time working without light, I had to find another means to sort it out.
Here I have the materials used for the Zara cap.
- Aso oke (3 roles)
- macco
- candle gum
- gum stay
- big hand needle and thread
- medium warding
Those are the materials used in making the Zara cap.
Making process
I measure 25 inches out of the Aso oke and cut it out in two pieces, join it together, and then fold it into two.
The macco I have is 15 inches long and 3.5 inches wide, so I get the center of it and get the center part of the Aso oke, place it at the same point, and wrap it up. I use my gum to hold it there. There's no light, so I have to light up a candle and use it to melt the candle gum to be able to do what I want. If there's light, I will just insert the candle gum to them with the glue gun and plug it, but I had to use the artificial way in order not to delay the work because there's no light at the moment.
After gluing it together, I folded it into two and measured the head circumference, which is 23.5 inches, and sewed it straight up.
After sewing, I pass the thread in 4 lines to the hand needle and use it to drag the seam allowance together and get this shape.
Now I have my Zara cap ready but remain to design it.
I have the warding, which is 25 inches by width and 8 inches by length. I have almost 10"inches in d picture but I later trimmed it to 8"inches. So I rolled it together and got this shape, then I used my candle glue gum to hold it together.
After that I cut 25 inches in length of Aso oke and wrapped it in it like this below.
Then I used my needle and thread to tack the open spaces together like this.
Then I attached it to the cap round with the needle and thread.
For the fan design at the back, I cut out 7 inches on the Aso oke and added gum stay to make it a little thick, and I folded it into two to sew it straight up like this below. I did 7 pieces of it.
And turn it out, bend it into two, and I used the needle and thread to drag it all together and tack it together. Then I placed it at the center back and used the needle and thread to hold it down.
I cut out a lace pattern to use in place of a flower to cover the center edge of the point.
Here is the Zara cap design.
