Archive for the 'hats' Category

Fashion, hats and fascinators at the Melbourne Cup…

Today was the annual horse race that stops the nation - I am not sure if there is anywhere in Australia where their workplace or school does not stop to watch the race…  To me its not only about the horses (although they are important) it is about the hats… I love to how amazing [...]

Crazy Chip Bag Headpiece

I found this hat on Etsy and just thought I would share the inspiration. It is designed for Etsy Milliner, Boring Sidney. The Etsy site can be found here: BoringSidney :: Crazy Chip Bag Headpiece
What great recycling!

Feathers

Feather Print from Fairie-ality,
originally uploaded by geishaboy500.

Until I went to Dita Feathers in Sydney I didn’t realise that there were so many different types of Ostrich feathers.
The male feathers are bigger than the females, the mating feathers even bigger - In fact they were huge. Then of course there are left and right hand feathers… [...]

Making a cocktail hat part 2… cutting to shape.

The 20/20 has dried and is firm it is time to cut the cocktail hat to shape.Step 1: Take the shape of the block and cut of rough edges. Step 2: Mark the shape. Some points to note:

You may wish to mark the shape into quarters - centre front to [...]