Archive for the ‘Embellishments’ Category

I love making my own flowers for my hats and fascinators because it isn’t easy to find colors that match or co-ordinate with my fabrics and keeping a large variety of flowers in stock would be quite cost prohibitive. So, after completing making flowers for an upcoming custom wedding order, I added the left over [...]

If you have been following my blog and have wondered what makes my hats and fascinators so interesting, then I can tell you in one word. Feathers! However, you do not have to wear hats to enjoy wearing feathers. You can add them to hair clips and hair bands to make glorious pieces you can [...]

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 [...]

Two types of leaf dies for flower makers or quilters. Although I designed these dies for leaves, they could also be used for flower petals. A set of four of my designer leaf dies are now available to the public for purchase from TeaPapers.com. I wanted leaves that could work well with flowers. For these leaves [...]

Five petal flower dies are great for making flowers or for quilters. My new flower dies arrived yesterday and I have been busy! These precision dies are ‘steel rule dies’ for cutting fabric layers. I can now offer beautiful custom colored organza flowers that are completely hand sewn by me. This set of two has [...]

I use a lot of feathers when making fascinators and yesterday I decided to test one color of cold dye on the same feathers that I use Rit dye, which is a hot water dye. My new client Jaime brought these dyes to me as a gift when she came to bring her dress and [...]

I am working on dyeing feathers today again and wanted to test cold water dye on feathers verses dyeing in hot water. Jaime, my new client brought me 7 cold water dyes yesterday and I was quite thrilled with her generous gift. Everything I’ve done so far I’ve done out of my own pocket, which [...]

Every now and again I take time to play around and think about which direction I want my millinery to go. I know that playing is an important part of coming up with new ideas and growing as a milliner. First I began playing with flowers. I only have one die for my die cutting [...]

That is the question? I’m talking feathers folks! Today was purple day! I needed to make a couple of fascinators in purple in two different looks, so I opened up my purple rooster feather bag and poured them out onto the table. It was time to strip! I buy my rooster feathers dyed because they [...]

Let’s make Marabou Feather Pom poms! This morning I was preparing things to start my day, when an idea popped into my head. I immediately went to find a white marabou stole in my stash and brought it through to my work station. It is an easy fun project that you can make quickly, to [...]