August is over and the air is already getting nippy in the mornings (and I’m tired of talking about NY). This means that my personal hat making break is over (I went back to my paying hat making job 10 days ago) and I have no excuse for not finishing what I started a while [...]

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. [...]

So, here’s the finished hat! Love the beads I found to go with it! Just to pack it up now and post it!
Donc voici le chapeau terminé! J’adore les perles que j’ai trouvé pour aller avec! Maintenant, il ne reste plus qu’à l’emballer et l’envoyer!

Ok, this week is going past so quickly (maybe cause it’s sunny!) and I must admit concentrating on my hat making has been tough but I have to! I’ve been making this small top hat for a friend to wear to a wedding and I must finish it! My friend wanted a light grey color [...]

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 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 t’adore [...]

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 [...]