Archive for June, 2010

When you design hats, you can make any outfit you sew extraordinary. I recently bought a lovely soft brocade fabric remnant that I planned on covering hats. However, when I looked at it, it was large enough to do something else. Kim had recently bought a Simplicity Project Runway vest (waistcoat) pattern she loved and [...]

I would call this hat a Rose for a Rose because Simone would love being described as an English rose. However, we are sisters and can’t say extraordinarily nice things about each other and ruin a good record of being rotten to each other. If you have ever visited England during the summer, you will [...]

This is my interpretation of a Medieval Headdress. I think the reason in this modern age that we are still drawn to the Renaissance/Medieval period is because this style of fashion was all about wearing the most extravagant fabrics available. Of course during those times it was only for the rich.  These days it is all about dressing [...]

Every milliner should design and make a Mad Hatters Hat and this is my version. I just watched the movie Alice in Wonderland on DVD that we picked up at a Redbox today. I had been wanting to watch it because I love the combination where human’s and computer generated movies are combined. I would [...]

Time to break out of the box and get a one of a kind hat this fall. Everyone should have a wild but elegant hat in their wardrobe for the day they wake up and want to make the statement “Look. This is the real me!” It’s called breaking out of the box.   This [...]

Hot pink velvet and French veil from England make this taller pillbox hat sexy and alluring. This gorgeous hot pink velvet and French veil arrived here from my sister Norma in England.  Veil from England is 12″ wide whereas here it is only 9″ wide. There’s nothing more sexy than the color hot pink and [...]