Archive for July, 2011

This saucy little hat has been on my mind for awhile and yesterday I designed the pattern for it. This is the first one I have made and I am quite pleased with it. It would be as easy to wear as you would wear a fascinator, but it is a true hat. This jaunty [...]

I spent the last two days working on this Juliet cap and although it is tedious and a lot of hand sewing, I love the style of Juliet caps and so do many brides. Juliet caps have been around for many years and were the most fashionable in the 1950′s. Now I have brought this [...]

There is nothing more fun than designing something wacky that you see in your head, and this fascinator is one of these designs. I put this fascinator on blonde hair to show how wacky this design really is. I used a lot of purple iridescent coque feathers to make this piece using some to stand [...]

Here is a unique wedding hat that was inspired by the Roaring 20″s Flapper ear. A few days ago I was watching an older English series on Netflix which was set in 1920′s England called Tommy and Tuppence, Partners in Time. Although I haven’t designed any hats from this period, I was struck by the [...]

Everyone knows that any practicing witch never leaves home without her black cat and In this case it hitches a ride on top of her mini witch’s hat. In late 2010, I had just begun to design hat patterns and started out designing mini hats. At Halloween that year I designed this fun little witch [...]

Back to work on my Fall Collection. This time I made a set in a gorgeous deep chocolate brown color. The fur has self colored stripes that show as they catch the light. I chose to make a round fascinator to go with this cape and a feather broach to wear on the cape, that [...]

There is nothing more fun for me than to design a hat or fascinator for a real live person. That may sound a bit odd considering that all my designs go to real live people, but the difference is a custom piece is commissioned to go with a particular outfit that someone intends to wear [...]

I want to share with you how you can custom dye French veil. I just received an email from a friend who wants me to design a custom fascinator for her son’s wedding. As soon as I see her dress and pick up a paint swatch at the hardware store, yes I did say hardware [...]

Back to my world of millinery and hat making with this gorgeous set of cape with matching hat. This time I chose a bold patterned short pile fur with a giraffe inspired design all over. The colors are striking in black, tan and golden tan and will compliment most hair and skin colors. The hat [...]

Working with this gorgeous soft piled fur in the middle of July is probably a little odd. But that’s how any clothing or accessory designer has to work, during opposite seasons. Regardless, I could still envision a beautiful woman wearing these two pieces while riding in a sleigh or horse and carriage after an evening [...]