Wear It, Share it and have People Stare!

So I made the hat and it received glowing reports from my fellow students and Sian - my tutor, yet I still felt I needed some feed back from the general public.

My friend Phil invited me to his Civil Ceremony and if this wasn't the occassion to wear something unusual when would it?

I bought the dress to match the hat!

I am deep down a very shy person and can be racked with doubts about how good my work is and how confident I can be. I usually stand behind my 6ft 4" DH when out together in situations I am unsure about. So when Phil's invitation arrived I knew I had to grab the bull by the horns, and as DH was staying at home with Son, be brave and don the hat!

I must admit I nearly turned round and jumped back in the car, but DH said some supporting words and off I went head held high!

I had a lovely time, I only knew a handful of people, but the hat broke the ice and I chatted the day away. I even had requests for business cards!

Watch out Mr Treachy you may have competition!!!

Fascinator Revealed

Da dah...!

To all those who where unable to be at Urchfont College this week-end

here are various views of the Fascinator

Summer School

I am so excited to be going to Summer school on Sunday I have already begun packing!!!



The fascinator is completed, BUT I would prefer to unveil it to my Distant Stitchers and Sian before I show the World. I hope you don't mind!

Well, maybe a taster of what it looks like...

I like it so much I am contemplating making a dress to match for a wedding I am invited to at the end of August!

Day 45

Thursdays are supposed to be for Coursework, so I've swept the kitchen floor and pegged the washing out, chatted to a teacher regarding the scenery she would like me to do for the school play, which my son is in and opens while I am at the Summer school! Son and I are counting the days while I create and he rehearses.


So no more excuses - COURSEWORK...

This is the paper idea I had for the accessory I need to make, well actually this is the base - the accessory will be the buttons and tassel attached to the hat. The idea came from the punchline of a joke told to me once I had mentioned I was making a "fascinator"

"I have a donkey jacket it is great, it has nine buttons but I can only fascinate!"

This is the title for this piece, it has nine buttons of varing sizes and only eight will be fastened.

I made another toile in vilene and calio, but it was far to large - more hat then fascinator.

Did some resizing and here is the new toile

Front

Side

From the top

I am now creating the fabrics - fabric printing and embroidery and will use the toile as a pattern to make up the finished piece. The nine buttons will "move" down the spiral, eight will be fastened through button holes but the nineth will sit on the spiral and the "empty" button hole will bend down the side of the head into a spiral tail and the tail will end with a tassel.

Off now to do some more!