Show Us Your Hats!

[bellevivre]

Sorry it's a dark picture- my first hat, a french hood

[dinkywench]

Here is another pirate hat I recently made:

[Auryn]

I love love love your hat dinkywench
its totally awesome.

May I ask what is the hat itself made of??

[LadyShadow]

Very lovely.  I really like that red trim you have on there.

[dinkywench]

I love love love your hat dinkywench
its totally awesome.

May I ask what is the hat itself made of??

It is a felt hat blank. They come round and I sew them up.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

The Victorian Bell Topper I had originally made for Bob, but I kept it instead. Goes well with my Goth/Steampunk wardrobe.

[Dustin]

Here's the new flat cap my wife made for me out of leftover material from my cloak:

[RenRobin]

The Victorian Bell Topper I had originally made for Bob, but I kept it instead. Goes well with my Goth/Steampunk wardrobe.

Yummy!  You are so very talented...I am a wee bit jealous...ok a lot!

[Mistress Kathleen]

Dinkywench  where do you get your blanks for your hats?

[Rengrrl]

Oi...  got sucked into this website by Pipere...  Wow!  I've been searching Google for renfair pics and costume reference and there's a ton already here!

Here are two hats I've done.

The first is uber familiar- it's Nigel Armani's hat from the MichRenFest.  People have asked for closeups, here they are.  The other was worn briefly by a Mary Queen of Scots and a Countess character.  The Nigel hat is actually a LaPaloma base, then the feathers and other...  birds...  lights (yes it does light up with fiber optic lights)...  bees...  random foliage.. tribbles.... stuff is pinned and tucked to the crown and then secured with the gold flouncing.  I'm looking for ideas in how to reinforce the verticle crown without adding any more weight.  Ideas???

[Adriana Rose]

What did you use to keep the feathers up right?


Very fantastic on both of the hats!

[LadyShadow]

Oh wow.  Those are some marvelous hats.  Great job

[sealion]

I started at the bottom of the page and scrolled up thinking "Hmmm...I know that feathered hat!" LOL
Gorgeous work!

[Margaret]

I started at the bottom of the page and scrolled up thinking "Hmmm...I know that feathered hat!" LOL
Gorgeous work!

*snork*  Me too!   

[Ariyana the hugging wench]

Well, I finally finished my new pirate hat.  I did it all by hand with hand sewing except part of the lace. I started sewing the 3 different colors of lace (cream, black and light pink) together to make it easier for attaching later. but the machine started acting up and snarling badly or breaking the needle so I ended up finishing that step by hand as well. All the other parts, the hat band, the little skulls on the hat band, the lace the ribbons (there is black on top of the lace edges and then the mauve color on the edge of the hat, and the fancy trim were all sewn by hand. I need to take a few stiches over my privateers pin to secure it so it doesn't get lost. I also want to secure the fake roses in better. They kept falling out so I suppose I will figure out how to sew them in as well. I have the burgundy one on top and the light pink on the bottom in from but it is reversed in back. I put the little skulls on every 3rd flower in the hat band ribbon to make it more piratey! and you don't notice it right away which is sort of cool.
Ok and I am not sure it is totally finished.  I had found some white pearls as I finished and went.. hmmm. A friend suggested I get cream, light pink and black pearls and have them draping and hanging off of it.. and I am seriously thinking of it.. a winter activity perhaps? And of course it needs way more pink, black, burgundy, gray and maybe white or cream feathers, some longer ones I am thinking as well. Yeah it may go through additions each year as I find them. I might choose later to not have the privateer's pin on it but for right now it works. I am also thinking of attaching a band on the inside where it rubs against my head, and to cover the threads that are there. still not sure what to put there and how to attach it securely. I will likely end up sewing something in there... and it needs to be gone over with a lint brush. But I had it done and wore it for the show I did on August 1st and wore it again last saturday for the Loveland Castle Knight's tourney.


the hat band, see the skulls I added?



then  me wearing it!!