Archive for the ‘Top Hats’ Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I finished my tenth Steampunk perch hat, I decided to put all ten in one blog with a link to a detailed blog about each piece. All these hats could be worn for your next Steampunk or Dickens Victorian gathering. I have designed two hat patterns for the two styles and have written complete [...]

Although I am instantly drawn to beautiful and pretty things and many of my hats lend themselves to those styles, I also know I as a designer, I must explore other avenues to cater to all tastes. Recently on a trip into Houston I stopped to check out the new fall fabrics and spotted a [...]

My inspiration for this hat was the Magenta fabric that I almost left at the store. I was looking at fabric about a week ago and saw this glorious magenta colored crinkled fabric that my eyes were drawn to. I think I must have been a butterfly in a past life because bright and beautiful [...]

This hat can of course be worn at any time, but the idea came to me while I was working on an all white Steampunk Bridal hat over the past few days that I could mix Peacock feathers along with white feathers which would be an extraordinary look for a bride who really wanted to [...]

The Steampunk pop culture is growing in leaps and bounds which has made me very happy as a millinery designer. It means I can now design hats with glorious details such as large and ornate feather pads and beautiful fabrics that can be worn by women who love to be noticed. My English background has [...]

I wanted to do a different technique to trim this tall top hat and use an assortment of feathers that stood out and yet became part of the design. This hat has all the bells and whistles of an extraordinary top hat design. My inspiration for this piece was some beautiful eyelash fabric in a [...]

This time I decided to take two colors that scream out “I am a sexy, gorgeous woman” and make another small steampunk, burlesque, or Victorian top hat. Black and red together are literally hot and when a woman wears this combination, she feels like a woman in control. This style of hat will be seen [...]