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.
