Woop! What a glorious Bank Holiday weekend! I'm starting a temp job tomorrow for a couple of weeks, so I thought I'd help us all to avoid that Sunday Night Feeling / The Fear with an evening blog post to ease us all into the week ahead. Traditionally, I'm supposed to make winter hats in summer and summer hats in winter. However, just in case this is The Summer (we still haven't forgiven you 2012...) for the past fortnight I have mainly been sewing in sunglasses, which does not encourage the use of felt and wool and tweed. As a result, this weeks' blog features straws and sinamay in rainbow brights...
Berry Straw
I spent last weekend in London with Rose, learning how to work with straw. It's a tricky business, especially with a wider weave straw cone - one wrong move and the entire thing starts to fray, then unravel, before gently falling to pieces in your very hands! Nonetheless, you can't beat a straw in summer (I'm keeping the pink one!) and it's another millinery skill mastered... Needless to say the next few posts may feature A Lot of straw ;)
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Raspberry straw beret: Awaiting it's finishing touches...
 | After spending an age invisibly hand sewing this orange velvet to the remainder of the straw cone over the weekend, I then found this butter soft leather on Goldhawk Road... |  The beret will now be rocking a bright orange oversized leather bow, and the straw / velvet tube will adorn a future creation! It was no contest really... |
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Tilted straw topper: Work in progress, I feel some feathers and veiling coming on...
 | Order . Order ! My latest commission is "Strawberries and Cream" in blue and pink - the client fell in love with the original but had already got her outfit, so we adapted! Here it is all packed up and ready for new adventures. |
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Another couple of the simpler but effective designs for the S/S 2013 Collection...
 |  | Eyes Right: Acid sinamay coils with peacock eye and feather mount on blond tulle covered wire headband |
| Rose Between Two Thorns: Felt origami rose with black arrow quill thorns |  |  |
And finally. . .
In other exciting news, my Facebook page has received over 100 likes!! Thanks again to everyone for the support - it's greatly appreciated!
I'll be back from the Real World in a fortnight - in the meantime, a visit to Handmade Monday will surely put off the inevitable inconvenience of the working week. See you next time my dears!
I'll be back from the Real World in a fortnight - in the meantime, a visit to Handmade Monday will surely put off the inevitable inconvenience of the working week. See you next time my dears!
