All our caps are available with a hand crochet letter of your choice, sewn onto it here in the studio by us. However if you’d rather get involved yourself, you can choose the DIY option for £10 less and sew the letter on at home by using discount code FINE-ILL-DO-IT-MYSELF at checkout. Honestly, it’s a very good and very easy little project, and we made a handy video to walk you through it.

Don't worry if you've never sewn before. I think this is about as easy as stitching gets and here is how to do it step-by-step.

First things first, you need to work out where you want your letter to be. We normally place it along the centre front seam, but you can put it wherever you want!

When you're happy with the placement pop a pin in it to keep it in place, then thread up your needle. When I thread a needle I like to pull the thread all the way through so that the two ends are the same length and then tie the ends in a little knot that just stops it from unraveling. 

Now we're going to start by bringing the needle up from the inside of the cap to the outside, making sure the needle comes up through the edge of the crochet letter too. Pull it all the way through and your knot will prevent it from coming out completely. Now we're basically going to work all the way around doing tiny tiny little stitches! Every single time you put the needle in, pull the thread all the way through and make sure it's tight and there are no loops on the back. I find it helps to keep checking the back for loops that haven’t been pulled all the way through. 

One thing to watch out for is the headband on the inside on the brim - make sure that this is out of the way and not trapped in the stitches. 

Every 2-3 millimetres put another stitch in and make it the tiniest stitch possible. You really just want to catch the edge of the crochet letter. The smaller the stitches, the better, because then it will be neater. We simply keep going like this and stitch all the way around until you've met up with your first stitch. 

If you've got a letter which has got a hole on the inside (like A or R or P etc) I would go round the edge of that with little stitches too.

When you've gone all the way around and you're happy that it's secure you can either tie this off in a little knot on the inside, or what I like to do is just do a couple of little stitches on the inside, just going in and out a couple of times in the same spot so that it doesn't unravel. Then trim the excess thread and that's it! 

You now have a new hat and the satisfaction of doing something slow and gentle today! And the really lovely thing is that everybody's hat will be completely different. And that's the way we like it. Tiny hand-made things. Slightly wonky in the right ways. All one-offs really.