http://www.lucychalk.com Hat Designer Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:54:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1438 Hope you're not all sick of NY, cause, well, I'm not finished yet!! So, there I was, skipping down 6th Avenue when I came across a couple of cool stores for crafty folk : M&J Trimmings and Toho Shoji. There are probably other cool supply places in NYC (I'm just ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1421 As you can imagine I went around quite a lot of museums in New York - eight in all - I'm not going to talk about all of them (do you want to be tortured?), but I had to tell you guys about the exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum (it's ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1402 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 ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1389 While in New York, I was lucky enough to go visit the Schmalberg flowermakers! I was shown around and they explained to me how their fabric flowers were made (and as you can see, I was allowed to take photos!). So, here are the basic steps of how the flowers ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1373 Ok, I wasn't going to blog until September, but well, I lied!! I got back from New York yesterday (I'm feeling all jetlagged, urgh! but had a great time) and I was just making a list of stuff I have to blog about (etsy, supplies, art...) and there's quite a ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1367 August is here and this means holidays!!! I'll not be blogging for the whole of this month (unless I really have something to say!). See you in september! Août est là ce qui signifie que c'est les vacances!!! Je ne vais pas blogger de tout ce mois-ci (sauf si j'ai vraiment ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1364 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 ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1351 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 ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1340 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 ... http://www.lucychalk.com/?p=1328