Witch Hats -- Different Versions (Wizard, Sorting.....)

My batch of black witch hats with blue ribbon around the base of the hat turned out really nice this week, so I started doing Sorting Hats from Harry Potter (in a ruddy brown with a black ribbon) and non-bent ones as basic Wizard Hats.

 

I'm looking for a nice pale gray felt to do Gandalf the Grey's version of the Wizard Hat too.

 

What's odd is that while I offered each version to someone selling my stuff in California, she didn't think enough people would know a Wizard Hat, and had to actually look up what a Sorting Hat was..........OMG, she has to be one of the 200 people left in the USA who has not seen or read any Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings.  Is this at all possible?

 

The pattern is so simple, but takes time to do start to finish.  I use felt, black for the witch hats, brown/gray for the others.  The brim is two circles that are 3 1/4" across, you sew them together around the edge by machine and trim nicely. The pointy part is a pie shaped piece. You cut a 7" circle, slice it in half, then in half the other way to get 4 pieces (that makes 4 hats).  Cut a strip of felt 1/3" wide and long enough to sew around the lower edge of the pie piece as the hat's 'ribbon', stitch it down with your sewing machine.  I have the ribbon be up from the bottom edge by maybe 1/3" so there's room to fold the ends under when assembling.  Fold the pie piece in half the long way and sew down the long edge to make the pointy hat. Turn, poke the end out nicely with the end of a pencil or such, and stuff it.  Set this on top the brim circle, tuck the ends under, and tack it down in place.   I did 44 of them in an evening.

 

Viola!  A Witch/Wizard Hat.  Bend the top down a bit and stitch the folded side with a few tacking stitches to keep it bent, that's the Sorting Hat.