Archive for September, 2011

This is the last hat I will be making for awhile due to an upcoming ttrip to England that cannot be postponed. I will be back on November the 1st and will get right to work again. In the meantime, I decided to make the last hat a Pan Am hat due to all the [...]

Wow! I loved the new ABC series call Pan Am and as I sat watching the pilot of the show, I couldn’t help but stare at the stewardess hat shape. It is not my job to copy a hat, but I love to design something in a similar shape. When you look at the hats [...]

I hope my love of making hats and designing patterns will rub off on other would be milliners by my offering my designs so that others can make them too. When I watched the new show Pan Am, I knew I would design a second stewardess hat in a pillbox shape. Now I have written [...]

Before I watched ABC’s new pilot show about Pan am stewardess’s during the early 1960′s, I had already began experimenting designing a pillbox hat in a similar shape as the original hats. It is not my intention to copy an exact hat, but to use my own design ability to produce a rendition of the [...]

For the past several weeks I have been putting together hat patterns combined with complete step by step photo tutorials. With each design I have added as much difference in detail as possible. This new perch hat has trilby style and flair and it is entirely different than any of the other Steampunk Victorian hat [...]

This is the second hat I have made with my new pattern and I wanted to use bolder colors and change the brim to offer two very different styles of hat from one pattern. The first hat I made is in more natural colors with both sides of the brim turned up. I wanted to [...]

This style is entirely different than any other Steampunk Victorian hat that I have designed. It has a Victorian Trilby shape to it and reminds me of the hats worn by Victorian ladies as they stroll through the park on a Sunday afternoon after church, wearing all their finery. Hence the name I have given [...]

When I designed the Pirate hat, I kept in mind how many times someone would make a pirate hat and decided to make the pattern more versatile. These two hats look entirely different and yet they are from one pattern with a brim that can be manipulated to change to either style. This is the [...]

This hat is for the totally feminine woman who loves to wear something very unique while attending a garden party. What you may not believe is that this hat frame is the exact hat frame that I designed for the lady Pirate hat. Please visit the last blog. The purpose of designing the hat pattern [...]

I have received so many requests about a pirate hat and of course a pattern to make one. so I decided to start work designing this hat a few days ago. It takes me several days to work out a pattern, drafting pattern pieces, and then make a buckram frame, covering it, and then have [...]