Styles & Shapes – Hattin' Around & Leanne Fredrick Millinery: Recent Episodes
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Late at night when everyone else has gone to bed, I get into the hat zone. I work until the wee hours and occasionally into the next morning. Recently this has been while having a great time learning from and teaching Live Virtual Millinery Workshop . When I get to a stage where I am … Continue reading The Hat Fairy & Live Virtual Workshops
Making a Fisherman’s Hat has been on my list. I am delighted with my results in denim, a soft red leather, and I even tried it in cork. I usually make my own hat patterns, but this time I used the Vogue V9044. I did take some liberties with the pattern. Simple Fisherman in … Continue reading Fisherman’s Hat
Is Coolie a derogative term? According to Wikipedia and the Urban dictionary, it is. Why then, is it still used so freely to describe the common conical shaped hat most commonly associated with Asian slaves or Asian manual laborers? I blame Hollywood. The actual hat is a Vietnamese hat called a Non-la. I go through hat … Continue reading Coolie, Conical or Non-la?
My first attempt at a podcast and its about my first felt hat shape which is a cloche. The Cloche was my first felt hat. I learned so much from this one little hat. It has been altered at least three times. My husband had to scouch down and look up under the hat to … Continue reading Cloche – HA 1