I was just doing some final touching up on my pink straw hat (I posted about it recently) and I  realised what it has been making me think of! Flamenco dancers with all their ruffles, bright colors and cordoban hats! Cordoban hats really are symbolic of Spain, it’s worn for bullfighting and flemenco performers, aswell as for [...]

I’m off to New York this summer (yay!!) so when I saw this book I had to pick it up! The book is a collection of  illustrations by Robinson (german illustrator, 1910-1993), first edited in the sixties it was edited again in 2009. Robinson’s style  is really charming and suits a big city like New York. He is also very [...]

Here are some pics of the trimming I did on that straw hat! I basically cut up various sized circles, did a zig-zag stitch all round the edges (I was going to use pink thread but discovered this morning that I didn’t have any!), then folded them to give a bit of volume. After that I just kind [...]

I opened up my mail today and saw that my sister had sent me a link to this article in The Guardian, about Lady Gaga wanting to do an internship with milliner Philip Treacy. I love Gaga – she’s so excentric. Her outfits are flipping amazing and she does wear a lot of headwear, but maybe she [...]

I was planning to do a lot of sewing this weekend and finish this pink straw hat (and to blog), but I caught a really bad cold with a sore throat , hardly managed to sleep…I’m sniffing as I type! I really want to make some flowers to go on the side, hopefully I’ll get it [...]

Just a small follow-up post about the majorette hat I made recently. Here’s the hat worn by one of my friends (love you dear!). Looks bloody amazing! I want those red eyelashes!!! Juste un petit post de suivi du chapeau de majorette que j’ai fabriqué récemment. Voici le chapeau porté par une de mes amies (je [...]

Here are some pics of a hat I finished this week. It’s made out of two seperate felts, blocked seperately, just had to be careful to block the  brim a little bit bigger than the crown of the hat. It’s for a private client who already knew what sort of hat they wanted, it’s not something I [...]

Today  I wanted to share a lovely blog that I discovered recently, Clockwork Lemon. Ok, I love baking cakes and the likes  but I hardly ever actually do it  and when I do, do I ice? do I make cute flowers? do I play around with dye? NO! I’m just pleased that nothing gets burnt and that it tastes [...]

…and all the little birds are singing! Well, not exactly – we were having really hot weather and now it’s raining, feels like autumn…. But I’m pretty sure birds were chirping at some point! So, here are some funky feathered hats! Here are dates and names (from top left, going clockwise) : 1. made in [...]