Detour

Back to millinery after summerholiday. I have two hats under way and looking good! I love working with sinamay - it works like a charm and after testing with some simple shapes I have high hopes for the future designs.

Here is what I have done with the hydrangea hat so far:

The basic shape is made by streching two layers of fabric over a styrofoam head. The layers are glued together with pva-glue thinned with water. After that the base is simply cut to the desired shape and trimmet with some ribbon.

Now I've been attaching hudreds of little flowers to make the effect of a hydrangea. The flowers are made by cutting the shape from stiffened fabric. I added some color variation by spraying some clorite on the fabric.

But now I am finishing an order for some of my old designs - skulls and heart brooches. Back to the hats later.

xoxo /Anu

Inspiration

As I said in the last entry I have some new materials - both to fashinators and jewlery; exiting!
For hats is sinamay! Sinamay is a fabric that is used to make hat bases and decorations. The fabric is made out of banana fibres and when you wet it with water it can be stretched and moulded in to different shapes easily - well that's the idea anyway.

Previously I did the bases to the hats from wool and while that worked out fine I think this is gonna open new possibilities and enable lighter constructios. I don't have any experience of using sinamay, but what the hell - trial and error is my way.

The 1st thing I was thinking about doing is a litlle hat - homage to summer inspired by a flower that - for me - is impossible to keep alive: hortensia.

The idea is to stiffnen some light cotton fabric and make a million little flowers, attach them to a base and maybe some cream colorred widow's veil that I was able to find.

I'll get started to day and update on the prosess.

xoxo 
/AnuNunu