Summer hat DIY

If you want to change your straw summer hat, I have a couple of ideas for you. This first one is by crocheting a cover for the hat.


 


Change the hat completly by
Attaching padding around the crown to make it bigger and to give it another shape.

Crochet a cover
I crocheted a cover for the hat using Cotton yarn in pale blue. Or knit one - if you are good at knitting!

 

 

Change the look by
using different scarfes - or belt? or ? whatever you find in your warderobe.



Feather hat
I crocheted the crown of the hat. The reason why I like crocheting is because for me, it is easier than stiching fabric on it - or knitting. I put a ring of feathers around.

 

I covered the brim with pink fabric.

I had to pin the fabric on first. Afterwards I stiched it.

 

 

 

 

 Finally I had to attach the fabric to the hat - by handstiching the edges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feather ring

At first I glued the feathers in between 2silky ribbons . I was afraid that this would not be enough to hold the feathers in Place  - so I hand stiched the feathers to the ring.

 

I put fabric around the Crown to cover the ribbons on the feather ring.

 

 

The result

 

 

 

TIP: These Straw hats I got really cheap in wintertime at a store who sells plants and gardening-stuff (Plantasjen) . I paid about 1 GB pound (10 kr) each for these. I so regret I didn't buy more than 3!

Simple and easy to make fascinators

This is an easy to make fascinator. You don't have feathers? I buy them on ebay.co.uk.

 

You need an Alice-band (you get these in the Craft-shop too) and a big feather. I have used:

Goose & coq feather mount, small goose feathers and stripped coq randomly positioned through Mount.

 

Bend the string/wire of the feather around one side of headband. If you use the same colour on both the headband and the feather the wire will not show.

Finished!

 

On this one I used Large hackle and coq feather mount on wire.

New tube shawl for Autumn?

Want a new tube shawl this Autumn? Why don't you make it yourself? Go to Your local Craft shop and let the colours inspire you.

By  using thick knitting needles and thin Cotton yarn (to match crochet needle nr 3) you get a wonderful soft and comfy shawl. 

 

My shawl is 1,45 meters long and 48 cm wide.

 

  

 

I used kntting pins nr 10, Yarn; Mandarin Naturel

Crocheted saucer fascinator

Rachel Trevor Morgan has made a lot of beautiful hats and fascinators. One of them - a saucer fascinator (probably made in sinamay)- inspired me to try to make one like it - by crocheting. It is not so difficult to make. Below I will try to describe how I made it.




This is Sara wearing the fascinator -from hatpresentation 23. June.
 

You need yarn and crochet hook (I used Cotton yarn to match hook No.3), a headband/Alice band made in of plastic with fabric draped around it (you get them in the Craft-shop) And you need some material to make it stay in shape. I used sinamy (millinary).

Crochet a circle, or the desired shape. This one is 25 cm wide. 

 

I used dc's - fastmasker.

 

 

Inside the fascinator I put sinamy (wich I had ironed) to make it hold the shape.

 

On the backside I stiched on silk fabric.

 

I pinned the fabric on, before I hand stiched it.

I would recommend to edge the fascinator with something, like a silk ribbon etc. This fascinator was made for the hatpresentation in June - and I did not have time to edge it.

 

The difficult part is to attach the saucer fascinator to the headband. I used sewingneedle that are shaped as a half circle. You might try to cut out a round piece of fabric - about 5-6 cm wide and stich this on the headband first (If you don't have sinamay, use some kind of thick wool fabric). Then you stich the fascinator to the fabric circle. And - almost every fabric shows so make sure to use the same colour.