Archive for February, 2011

Five years of cutting and keeping my hair until I had enough for a child’s wig. Today I cut my hair once again and put it in a Ziploc bag, then gathered all my bags of hair together from the past five years. I began keeping my cut off hair five years ago and decided [...]

Do you have a wedding or special event coming up and you are wondering what to wear as an accessory? Why not take the plunge and make yourself a fascinator to wear on your head? Fascinators are very popular in many countries, including Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and many more and they are [...]

Happy Valentine Day! Get ready for Ascot, your wedding, church next Sunday or just wear one for fun. I had this idea for a fascinator when I was mathematically working out a regular hat brim, so I played around and made these three fascinators showing the same pattern and different looks. This one I made [...]

I recently began thinking about all the Victorian Festivals that are held around the world and the fact that true hat patterns with complete photographic instructions are not available. Although there are companies on line who sell buckram frames I cannot imagine without complete instructions, patterns and photographs, how on earth anyone would cover a [...]

I was recently asked about making a Grace Kelly headpiece for a wedding so I sat down and began drafting the pattern pieces.  It turned out to be quite a complicated piece, but I am quite happy with the outcome.  Now I am offering this pattern with full photographed tutorial for sale. I studied photographs [...]

I have been asked when I was going to write a book on millinery so I recently began working on the first one of two books. I wanted to start my book with the basics of making fascinators then move into teardrop and round headpieces, then on to how to make Juliet Caps and finally [...]