Finally finished my hat for the Stephen Jones’s competition! Hope you guys like it and more importantly I hope the judges do!! My apartment looked like a pig sty, so before I took any photos I cleared up a bit…raphia and feathers everywhere! Now, I’ve got to get busy on a cycling cap… J’ai enfin [...]

If you’re into hats, you may be aware that recently the great Stephen Jones launched an international millinery competition!! Oh joy and excitement!! The first prize is just amazing!!! The winning hat will be exposed at Stephen Jones’  ”Hat’s : an Anthology” exhibition in New York for the whole six months it’s on (I saw [...]

Ok, so yes, I haven’t been sewing much lately, but I finally got round to finishing this fascinator yesterday! I’ve been finding it so hard getting motivated, when I get back home form work (where I’ve been sewing all day) I just want to curl up and go to sleep! But I’m going to try [...]

This week I’ve been trying to finish off those straw fascinators I started a while back, but also making a feathered fascinator for myself! I haven’t quite finished it yet (erm, I might be adding some sequins…) but as you can see I’ve covered the base (it looks flat on the photo, but it’s really [...]

I realized I hadn’t really talked much about what I’ve been up to millinery-wise recently. Well, not much, I’m afraid! I started making a couple of fascinators out of a natural straw braid, but I haven’t got round to finishing them just yet (I was highly determined to work on them last weekend then ‘social [...]

I am making some fascinators at the moment but I thought I’d give this knitting kit a go – it’s not just any old knitting kit, it’s for making a mini ninja!! This kit is for beginners (I don’t know how to knit) and it’s got everything you need in the box (needles, yarn, stuffing…). [...]

I’ll be off to Paris in a few hours time to celebrate the new year, so here are some pics of the hat I made for the occasion! I already had the fascinator base ready (it was on a shelf getting dusty!), so it didn’t take much time to do. I obviously had to glue [...]

Ok, so I’ve been working on a wreath/crown, but it’s not going the way I thought it would! I started off be doing some quick doodles, but then we had a small bout of really cold weather which just put me in the mood for some wool! All initial ideas went straight out the window! [...]

At the moment I’m busy putting together some pretty funky stockings for christmas but I have already got some ideas about what I’d like to make next hat-wise. I’ve been looking through a great book of Erté fashion illustrations taken from the magazine ‘Harper’s Bazar’. Erté was a russian-born artist who worked for the magazine [...]

So Halloween’s almost here and although I don’t have any plans I did want to make myself a witch’s hat, sometimes it’s good just to make something for pure fun! Also, I had some left other black and red fabric that I know I wasn’t going to use for anything else (I have a problem [...]