For Christmas, skycarrots gave me a 1960s book on millinery. I keep leafing through it, but it’s taken me all these months to get around to actually making anything. There are several chapters on “dressmaker” hats. Rather than using felt hoods and a block to mould your hat into shape, you make a pattern and [...]
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To make the most of the fact that I happened to be off sick on the one day in the last fortnight when it wasn’t chucking it down with rain the entire time, I went for a very short walk with the camera – just down to the edge of the lake and back. Paul’s [...]
This is what I’ve been up to today – making an enormous flower brooch using suffolk puff (yo yo) techniques. I’ve written up a tutorial for you, if you’d like to make your own!