OMG! Hat Making - where have you been my whole life!?
This hat is insane and I love it! The back story: I was bumping Lady Gaga in my sewing room and testing out a traditional Dresden plate pattern that I found on the internet. When it was done I was like, “OK, so, this is cute and would make a nice pillow or whatever - but seriously now - what would it look like on my head?”
BANG!
I used super stiff iron-on interfacing as the body for the brim, ironed it onto the Dresden plate, hand stitched a rad fake fur lining onto the other side and stitched a doily center onto the middle to form the crown. I hid the unfinished bit where the brim meets the crown with matching lace so that it just looks like an extension of the doily. I also hand-stitched wire into the brim so that I can move it all around and change its shape however I want to. I used tiny stitches everywhere so that the whole thing is REVERSABLE.
Plans for the next hat are already in the making. This time, I want to actually wet felt a vintage-looking hat together….with feathers and rhinestones and fake foliage, of course. I already put a couple different millinery books on hold at the library and they should be shipping to the North Portland library for me soon. There’s a right way and a wrong way to do this thing and I’d like to actually learn how to do it for reals. Yay!
