This summer I’m off to New York for some holidays (but I’ve already told you that in a past post I think…yep, I’m excited). So, I thought I’d tell you folks about the pork pie hat, which for me is a symbolic american hat – though well, it’s not really american (I’m making sense, right?).  [...]

Yay! Finshed! Well, I’ve just to put lining on the underside (which will be a pain) but still, finshed to me! At first, the part that falls on the middle of the forehead  bothered me and I tried balancing the whole thing out – I tried feathers, beads…but I couldn’t really find anything that seemed [...]

So, this week I started work on that buckram I stretched out last time. Ok…well, I decided not to do spikes (I just couldn’t be asked to…) and just went with a curly shaped base. Wired the edge, then covered it with a biais strip of cloth. Normally, I should then of covered the all [...]

It was boiling hot here yesterday, so what did I do? I put my iron on full heat, got my bowl of water, some buckram and prepared myself to sweat! Ok, I admit, it has been a while since I’ve worked with buckram, so I took an easy rectangle to shape on my mannequin head. [...]