While over in New York I though it would be a good opportunity to go over to the Etsy headquarters  (in Brooklyn, you could see the Manhatten bridge out of the window) and take part in a craft night. Craft nights are held every Monday from 4 - 8pm.  I went on August 9th, the [...]

Yay!! I received my diploma this weekend! It’s officialy official, I’m a qualified hat maker/milliner!! No more studies, just sew, sew, sew!
Youpi!! J’ai reçu mon diplôme ce weekend! C’est officilement officiel, je suis une modiste chapellière qualifiée!! Plus d’études, que de la couture encore et encore!

The past week I had my hat exams, the most important part being three days (18 hours) spent making a hat from A to Z completely by hand.  Here are photos of the hat we had to make (scanned them of the exams papers), we had different colors though, blue hat with green ribbon.  It’s a [...]

The school where I’ll be sitting my exams / L’école où je vais passer mes exams
 
The end of my course is here and tomorrow I’ll be starting the most important part of my exams!! Tomorrow, I start of with an art exam (it’s a quick two hour long test where we basically have to draw hats), then [...]

I work as an apprentice, this means that I divide my time between my work place and my school. It’s really great being able to learn in a professional environment and yet still have classes to learn other techniques aswell. I don’t have many classes, I only have two days of school every two weeks. I go [...]