I wasn’t going to blog about this but I changed my mind when I saw it…I received an order last week that I had placed with ‘Hats by Leko’ in the USA (www.hatsupply.com) – just a couple of wool felts and a amazingly huge flower (they do have a large selection of flowers, and this one [...]

This week I joined a team on Etsy, the french handmade team. The teams are for Etsy members who have common interests or share a crafting medium, for example, to get together and share support, knowledge…and whatever else they want really! So,this one is for people who speak french (from France, Canada…). It’s nice to know I’m not alone! [...]

Here are some gros-grain ribbon that I ordered a while back from the american suppliers JKM Ribbons. I had never ordered from them before and I thought I’d have a look on the internet to see if there were any reviews about their service. And did I find some! A lot of people did complain [...]

Here it is finished!! I think it looks rather good really, love that red fabric. Well, it’s almost finished, I’ve just got the lining to put inside (to hide all that stitching!).  What annoyed me was that I bought a special gold thread (part polyester and part I-can’t remember) and found that it was aweful to sew with, [...]

Here are some pics of a majorette hat that I’m currently making for a friend. The shape is nothing special so the buckram base was easy to make (I made a quick pattern), I have sewn a wire at the bottom of the hat so that is stronger. I then covered the base with a first layer of [...]

This weekend I was up in Paris and I went and visited the Yves Saint Laurent retrospective at the Petit Palais. It started off badly- even though my friend and I had already bought our tickets on the net we had to queue for almost an hour before being let into the building- but it turned [...]

My parents recently went to Malaysia and they brought me back a hat! It’s a traditional malay hat called a songkok (also called a peci and a kopiah in other asian countries). It is mostly worn by muslim men but hey, it looks good on me too! Normally it sits a bit lower on the [...]

Every year the small french town of Septfonds (which has a very strong straw hat heritage) holds a hat festival called ‘Estivales du Chapeau’. There is a market area with stalls for milliners and hatters to show and sell their produce and there is also a hat competition open to everybody!! There are various catergories (straw hats, show [...]