I made a hat
Jul. 20th, 2016 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mala_14Since I didn't get any sort of sewing done so far this month and have an outing this Saturday with Victorian at Heart, I made a new hat to add to my outfit. I used this Lynn McMaster's tutorial on altering modern straw hats. I took the crown off of my hat and dampened it to flatten the top. I also dampened and flattened the brim. I cut the brim and overlapped the edges to make the brim more angled. Then I re-attched the crown to the brim at an angle, so that the brim was way smaller at the back than the front. Then I added some more rows of straw braid around the brim to make the brim bigger. Then I dampened the brim and shaped it so that the sides come down. All the sewing was done by hand with cotton thread.
I have a Pinterest board of hats, some of which are this sort of shape. I didn't get all the angles quite right, but overall I think it works.
Now it just needs trim! I'm going to put a wreath of flowers around the crown. It should also have a lining in the crown and the brim should also have some sort of lining, often shirred, but I'm planning on recovering this hat next month to turn it into a winter hat, so I don't want to go to all that trouble just to undo it.
I have a Pinterest board of hats, some of which are this sort of shape. I didn't get all the angles quite right, but overall I think it works.
Now it just needs trim! I'm going to put a wreath of flowers around the crown. It should also have a lining in the crown and the brim should also have some sort of lining, often shirred, but I'm planning on recovering this hat next month to turn it into a winter hat, so I don't want to go to all that trouble just to undo it.
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