Show Us Your Hats!

[LadyElizabeth]

Here's my favorite two hats:

[Tixi]

Probably my favorite, because it's so sassy: black velvet Chapeau from Dragon Wings, MDRF:






From my first year faire wear collection - mostly hanging home decor at this point  






New this year, gyearrrr (thanks, Cloverpogue! )




Probably my second favorite, also new this year:






Irish peasant head wrap:






My AlterYears hat form with pattern - What will this be! Who knows! Probably nothing at this rate! heh




I have a flat cap and some others but they're boring to look at and I've wasted enough space. These were all purchased, but I'm working on making some now.


Question:  What's the appropriate type hat to wear with an Elizabethan Loose Gown (Spanish Surcoat)?

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Probably my second favorite, also new this year:

OH I love these two. I love French Hoods and the way you did this one is BEAUTIFIL!

[Joyce "Delfinia DuSwallow" Howard]

Tixi, I love the white hat, its just beautiful!Did you make it?

[Kate XXXXXX]

Recycling at its best.  Love it!

[Tixi]

Tixi, I love the white hat, its just beautiful!Did you make it?

alas, no, i did not make any of those - i wish i could do millinery, but efforts normally prove unsuccessful when buckram is involved

i did make this heart shaped coif yesterday, accomplished only through the cunning lack of wires or buckram

I have regrets about the material used, but it's not bad for a first try:

[Pinn]

Looks wonderful to me

[Syrilla]

Ohh, I want one.  Very lovely hood and coif.

[FortuneRose]

Tixi, I love the white hat, its just beautiful!Did you make it?

alas, no, i did not make any of those - i wish i could do millinery, but efforts normally prove unsuccessful when buckram is involved

i did make this heart shaped coif yesterday, accomplished only through the cunning lack of wires or buckram

I have regrets about the material used, but it's not bad for a first try:

did you free hand the pattern on this?  I don't have a coif pattern.  I know they are rather simple so I started working on mine.  I already started to sew the brim, but I have a feeling its not going to be wide enough.

[Tixi]

I based it off of pattern pieces from Margo Anderson's Elizabethan Accessories pattern manual.

I used
1) the standard coif circle x 2 and gathered it with two rows of stitching - it was a 14" diameter circle I decorated one of the pieces before gathering and the other served as lining. 14" was the perfect size.

2) a 25.5" x 2.25" band made of two pieces of the same size of turned fabric. that was attached to the gathered circle, right sides together

3) the heart-shaped brim - 2 pieces of fabriic, although the fabric I used was too translucent, and you could see the seam allowance on the inside when it was turned in. You could also use a rectangle that was rounded on two corners of the same long side like a really stretched out "D", as the standard coif pattern used.

I decided to use a piece from the french hood pattern though to make the front heart shaped brim. It was a varying depth like a curly brace character on the keyboard - and it was about 4-5" deep. The depth was greatest at the point over the forehead and the ear covers were slightly less deep at the apex of their curves.

The length of the brim piece I will have to measure when I get home from work, although the length of the brim would vary depending on how far you wanted it to come down over your cheeks. If you measure from below the bottom of the earlobe to below the bottom of your other earlobe (like a headband or earmuffs) with a flexible tailors measuring tape, and add seam allowances to both sides, that should be a suitable length.

I ripped stitches on this thing like 4 times because I couldn't get it quite right.

I first tried making the brim less deep, by using more than the standard seam allowance, but it looked strange because the band was too wide, so I ended up making the band less wide and leaving most of the full length of the brim.

I'll try to post some more pictures of the pieces and the length I used for the brim when I get home.

[Lady Christina de Pond]

Tixi nice hat collection

as seen via my hat posting on page four my hat pin was kinda small for my hat not really having anything handy big enough i went shopping at Garf or more or less shopping found me anyhow as promised  my new hat pin

[Joyce "Delfinia DuSwallow" Howard]

Tixi, where did you get that white hat from? I'm in love with it!

[Tixi]

Tixi, where did you get that white hat from? I'm in love with it!

It was just one of those fab eBay finds. It doesn't have a tag or anything on it, and I haven't seen any like it since.

It was about $65, but I think it is likely worth more than that -- It's the kind of hat that makes you want to design a gown around it 

Yes, I realize that is completely unhelpful

[Joyce "Delfinia DuSwallow" Howard]

I think we all might have had a find like that at one time or another, I'll have to pay more attention to ebay now. Thanks.

[Queen_of_Navarre]

Pyrate Con was such an adventure! I got more photos taken of myself in horrible zombie make-up then I ever have had taken of my in my lovely royal gowns. * laugh* figure that one out! Everyone loves pirates...even the dead ones.