Posts Tagged ‘steampunk’

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 [...]

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 [...]

Designing a new line of Steampunk Victorian Hats made me realize my modern wigs did not show my hats the way I see them in my head. So, I began a search on line to find a style of wig that would enhance my hats and showcased them with an up do. By continuous photographing [...]

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 [...]

 Smaller sized hats were quite the norm in Victorian days and were designed to perch on ones hair do. Hair was piled up and the hat was nestled on top of the hair and anchored in place with hat or hair pins. In our modern era, woman love this look so I designed a top [...]