Show Us Your Hats!

[amy]

100% scrap used for this piece.   It is built over the brim of an old wal-mart straw hat.  Wired the brim edge - cut off the crown and replace with gross grain X to perch it higher on the head.   Then black shirred taffeta like mushroom gills on the under brim - Gold Christmas ribbon around the top side and bound the edge with black velvet (old skirt)   Then made a mop cap style crown and glued around opening and stuffed with old wedding veil.  Added a button at center (off old commencement hat) Plumes are from my old fan that got wet - flowers are from an arrangement the cat destroyed and the cream is more Christmas ribbon.  Flowers on the back used to be on my Ren basket.  Feathers are anchored to a plastic half moon cut from a chinese soup lid.  The hardest part was remembering that Hot glue is just that.. HOT.   Sewing is much less dangerous.  I think I will add a set of ties to go under the back.  I have very thin hair and not much of it to comb or pin to, and no bun to anchor to.     

[Rowan MacD]

I need a new Flat cap. I have the material and feathers etc............I do not sew or make clothing at all. I do want a style that is firmly 16th Century.

Frank Blanton
aka Francis Dungcaster

I just made my first flat cap (to match the hubby's doublet), and it turned out fine.
 Sewing skills needed are negligible, however you will need a machine unless you plan to hand sew the project.  

[Magpie Flynn]

Made my first hat! It's a little weird in spots but I'm pretty darn proud of it

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Very nice Magpie!!!

Hats get easier the more you make them. Even after 20 yers of making Hats for costumes when I worked at the Costume shop, I am still learning some new things about them.

[Magpie Flynn]

Thank you! Now that I kinda know what I'm doing, I think the next one will definitely be easier

[DonaCatalina]

THat looks very nice to me. Congrats on a successful effort!

[Magpie Flynn]

Thanks Dona!

[amy]

That is an adorable little hat!   Well done!

[LadyShadow]

Love the hat. Great job.

[bookwench]

Finished this one this weekend.  Its a little jaunty pillbox made of dupioni silk and black velvet.  I'm quite happy with it. 

[WindChime]

That is really pretty Bookwench. If you don't mind how did you make it?

[bookwench]

Its a wired buckram base, about 2" tall and 7" across.  I covered it in flannel first, then the velvet and silk.  I had originally thought of quilting the top with silver thread and pearls, but my friend Arianna came up with the idea of using strips of the silk as its own cross-hatching.  Since its made of buckram, I need to go back and spray it generously with some water proofing so it won't melt in the rain. 

[DonaCatalina]

OOOOH. I like that one a lot.

[auntiegiggles]

Here is my hat from the past few years.  I updated it last year with a new fabric band, more feathers and hat bling.

[bookwench]

Ooooh, feathers!  Love it!