Remodel Summer Straw Hats
It now July and very hot, so when the shops start clearing out summer straw hats, buy them up and design your own for next summer. This is what you can do with them. Here in Texas it’s getting hotter and summer will soon be upon us. Today it will be in the 80′s F [...]
Recycling an Old Felt Hat
MY FIRST PROJECT FOR 2011. This hat may look great in this photograph but it isn’t. Some of the trim is badly moth eaten, the feathers are dilapidated and the hat looks very weary with age and abuse. Time to give it a whole new life and turn it into a wearable modern fashion hat [...]
Hat Shaper Buckram Frames
I wanted to show how one Hat Shaper can change like a chameleon with little effort. By learning how to design your own frames you can make hats any way you want to. I purchased a Hat Shaper they call a Bell Cloche. First I designed and made a buckram frame exactly like the Shaper. You can learn [...]
Lace Hat Experiment 2
Today I decided to finish my second lace hat experiment before going back to the hospital tomorrow. Part of the surgery I went through nine weeks ago, needs a bit of fixing, so hopefully it won’t take a lot of time out from my work and I will at last be back to normal. Thank [...]
My Lace Hat Experiment
Today I decided it was high time I experimented with my Hat Shaper and lace fabric. I couldn’t afford to buy an expensive Hat Block and while researching hat blocks I came across this site. http://www.hatshapers.com/ I ordered a Hat Shaper they named Bell Cloche because I wanted to find a way to make lace brims for my [...]
One Design/Two Hats
I designed this hat with the era of the 1930′s and 40′s in mind. This Pillbox hat came about by staring at the half finished frame of hat number one. I’m sure the era of the pillbox hats came about accidently while a milliner was making hats and set half a hat on her head while [...]
