Add a Hood to Any Jacket With This Simple Detachable Hood DIY
You love your jean jacket and it’s perfect except it doesn’t have a cozy hood. If you want to know how to make a hood, how to sew a hood, add a hood to any jacket, or make a DIY detachable hood, this is the tutorial for you.
I’ll show you how to sew a hood on a jacket using buttons so it’s easily detached. You can even make several different colors to change it up! Let’s get started on sewing a hood!
Tools and materials:
- Denim jacket
- Hooded top (to use as a template)
- French terry fabric
- Fusible interfacing tape in 3/4” and 2” wide
- Buttons (5)
- Drawstring: shoelace, ribbon, or cording
- Fabric weight
- Sewing machine
- Iron
- Pen
- Scissors
- Seam ripper
- Measuring tape
1. Make the pattern
Open up your jacket so the neckline is visible. Measure the neckline along the seam right at the collar. The jacket I’m using in this tutorial has a neckline measurement of 17.5 inches or 44.5 cm.
Fold the French terry fabric in quarters so the right side of the fabric is folded inside and the wrong side is up.
Fold the hood of your hoodie so the opening is perfectly aligned.
Trace the outline of the hood, paying special attention to the angle or curve of the hoodie attachment to the sweatshirt.
Measure the neckline, keeping in mind the neckline measurement you took at the start. Because the fabric is folded, you’ll need the half measurement. For this tutorial, it's 8.8 inches (22.25 cm).
If your hoodie is larger than this measurement, make an angle on your fabric to mark the correct neckline measurement. Weigh the fabric down to keep it from slipping while cutting.
Cut out the hood.
2. Start sewing the hood
Open up both pieces of the hood. Lay them right sides together. Pin the pieces together, sewing all around the sides and top, keeping the entire bottom unsewn.
Lay the ¾-inch fusible interfacing tape on both the top and bottom pieces on the wrong side and open edge of the hood. Press the tape.
Place your hand inside the hood and align the sewn seams on top of each other. Mark at about an inch on both sides. Mark at the back seam.
Fold the bottom edge in half to find the center on both sides. Mark those measurements.
You should have 5 marks on either side, mirroring each other.
Place the 2 inch interfacing tape on these marks on both sides. Press in place.
3. Make the hood drawstring holes
Measure up 2.5 inches or 6.5 cm on either side. Place 2-inch interfacing on these marks and press.
Use your sewing machine to make buttonholes on these 2 marks.
Once those buttonholes are sewn, use a seam ripper to open up those holes.
Optional: You can change the position of these holes to be higher on the opening.
4. Continue sewing the hood
Sew across the bottom of the hood, leaving about 3 inches unsewn. Once it’s sewn, use that hole to flip the hood to the right side.
Fold and tuck in the unsewn ends to match the rest. Pin in place and topstitch across the entire bottom.
5. Make the hood buttonholes
Recall those 5 marks you made.
Measure 0.3 inches or 0.7 cm for each one or match the hole to the buttons you have.
Use your sewing machine to make these 5 buttonholes.
6. Finish sewing the hood
Topstitch about 2 inches in from the opening edge all around the hood opening.
7. Attach the buttons to the jacket
Lay the hood with the buttonholes on your jacket’s neckline. Mark the buttonhole measurements.
Sew the buttons on to these marks.
Button the hood in place.
8. Insert the drawstring
Attach a safety pin to your drawstring. Insert into the drawstring holes and thread it through the casing you made.
Once it’s pulled through, tightly knot both ends.
You can make the hood in different colors!
How to make a detachable hood tutorial
You see how easy it is to add a hood to any jacket! Let me know in the comments if my tutorial helps you learn how to make a hood for a jacket or add your own DIY detachable hood!
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SO PERFECT, EXACTLY WHAT I'VE NEEDED ALL WINTER ON MY TWO FAVORITE JACKETS 🥰 thanks very much!