Show Us Your Hats!

[madmanpsu]

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Pic of my Monmoth Cap.

[Dinobabe]

Dinobabe I just love your new hat! Great job,I think I might have to try to make that one.

Dinobabe, I think I need to make that hat, also!  I've got all these wonderful samples, and soooo many of them are absolutely perfect for something like this! 

So did you guys ever make them!??

[Rani Zemirah]

Dinobabe I just love your new hat! Great job,I think I might have to try to make that one.

Dinobabe, I think I need to make that hat, also!  I've got all these wonderful samples, and soooo many of them are absolutely perfect for something like this! 

So did you guys ever make them!??

I'm abjectly ashamed to say that I have not... I've been busy with work, and making jewelry, and learning about wire wrapping... but I haven't sewn anything except the dress I wore to SoonerCon in absolutely ages!  I'm still in love with that hat, though, and I want to make some of them for this winter!  It's kind of hard for me to make things for winter in the spring and summer, though... (and a lot easier to procrastinate then, as well!)   

[Lady Rebecca]

It's not Ren, but I made my first ever non-straw-based hat, to go along with my 18th c floral polonaise. I used the Butterick pattern, substituting hand-sewing for wherever it said glue. It's made out of buckram, a cotton-blend brocade fabric which I dyed light blue, and lined with muslin. I decorated it with two feathers I picked up at various faires, one feather I got from ebay in a huge lot and then dyed, satin ribbon, a bird I found at Michaels, and flowers from the LA fabric district. And it all stayed on during my sail at the Norcal Pirate Fest today (thanks to a handmade hatpin and the ribbon ties). Overall, I'm pretty pleased.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Very nice, Lady Rebecca. Your Hat making skills are improving with each hat you make.

I have a Vouge Vintage Hat pattern that would make an 18th Century hat as well by adding more to the brim. Thanks for the idea. I have plenty of Linen scraps that would work nicely for such a hat!

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

The hat I made in time to wear at this year's CONVergence. Steampunk was the theme. So many Top Hats with goggles. Ideas to fill me for next year's projects.


The glasses and pin I bought in the Dealer's room. I am going to have actual perscription lenses installed into the frames.


Side shot showing fabric detail. I had large enough scraps to cover the Buckram form and finish the broim edges. The Goggles came from Museum Replicas. The small light at the side actually clicks on. Cool when the Party room areas were dark.


Taken last night after the Masqurade. The Hat pattern is the Lynn McMaster Top/Riding Hat pattern.

I am so tired f rom lack of sleep.

[Nighthawk]

My new Ryan Ross Highland bonnet!



Oh yeah!!

[Rani Zemirah]

Just finished this mini-topper... after working on it all night.  I drafted the pattern myself, but it still needs a couple of tweaks... and I do plan to make more.  I used chenille for this one.  Never again.  I now officially dislike sewing with upholstery chenille!!!  It's worse than velvet to work with...

[amy]

That hat is totally adorable!   How large is it actually?  Can you put it next to something standard so I can see how tall it is?  It is just great!

[Nighthawk]

Rani Zemirah- That's really cool!

[Rani Zemirah]

Thank you, both!  Amy, it's about 3" H x 4" W x 5" L, not including the trim and feathers...  I'll try to get a photo of my daughter wearing it at some point this weekend.  She seems to have claimed this one...  


Oh, yes... I made this from one 16" x 16" fabric sample. 

[Alaric]

so many nice hats in this thread. Are hats hard to make? They look difficult to me.

[gem]

Alaric, the answer is, "it depends!" Some hats are very easy to make, others are more complicated. The pillbox-style hat in my avatar, for instance, was terrifically easy, as was the Henrician bonnet I posted about several pages ago. In general, soft/sewn hats (flat caps, muffin caps, cauls/coifs, etc) tend to be easier to make than structured hats like the tall hat or the top hats posted in this thread. Hats like tricorns, Cavaliers, or other sort of "piratey" hats are pretty easy, as you generally start with what's called a "hat blank," or an unfinished hat you trim out yourself. I'm currently engaged in a battle of wills with a recalcitrant escoffion (which is just a fancy sort of caul, and so it has no call being difficult), but I am determined to emerge victorious!

[Lady Christina de Pond]

gem i suggest you decide what you want and go for it. the first had i ever created was a zorro hat for a halloween party i took cardboard and covered it with black cloth. it was a pretty good success for my first one the second one i took a hat i found at walmart for five dollars and that was the base of my blue hat the second i created i found a black felt hat online that lined up with what i wanted for my hat and then i added the roses the lace the pins and the feathers

[Alaric]

I am presently debating what type of hat to buy either a tall hat or a cavalier style. Problem is I like both!