Peach basket hat

I have finally got around to finishing this black peach basket hat. It is crocheted in a thinner yarn than the other 3 I made earlier this spring. I thought I would show you how I made them. Maybe you get inspired to making Your own?

I  make a innerhat with fabric or a kind of padding material that is thick enough to hold the shape of the hat.
I crocheted with yarn to match crochet needle number 3.

The brim

The top

 

 

 

When I crochet the cover, I measure it all the time to make sure it suits. I decided to let a little bit of the inside-hat show. I liked the edging in an other colour. So I handstiched the cover to the innerhat on the top - and at the edges. After finishing the hat I am not to sure about the edge. Maybe I should have made it just in black.   I will just have to use it a couple of times and see if I like it.

 

UPDATE Monday 6. October :

 

I  have decided to keep the coloured edge. Love it.

 

 

 

 

Autumn colour: Limegreen

To my suprise suddenly all the craftshops were filled with limegreen yarn! It must have happende in just a couple of weeks. Well, I like it. And I have already made myself a beanie hat - just waiting for the temperatures to fall.

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.

 

New hats - inspired by Africa

I wanted to show you two of the hats I made  - inspired by African fashion.

Crocheted pill-box hat with zebra detail

First I made an innerhat. Look at earlier post How to make a pill-Box hat where I have described how I make the innerhat.

 

 

I crocheted the cover of the hat using thin Cotton yarn matching crochet hook size No. 3

 

 

 

 

 

Finally I stiched the cover of the hat to the inside.  The zebra detail is an old scarf I had.

  

 

Zebra pill-box hat with peasant feathers

 

This is a pill-box hat covered with fabric - from an old scarf.

First I made the innerhat (check out earlier post How to make a pill-Box hat). I made a patten when I made the innerhat so that it would be easy to make the pattern for the cover. I cut out the fabric and then I handstiched it to the hat..

 

 

This is the top of the hat.

 

 

 

I attached a black feather (guineafowl feather pad) on the side - and to glam it up a bit - I just pinned on a beautiful big sprakling broach.

 

This hat was one of the hats in the hatpresentation on the 23. June - check earlier posts. At the last minutes we made som changes and we discovered that the hat wouldn't sit proberly on the models head. It just slipped of. As I was pretty exausted at the time I could not think of any solutions to this problem. So the other models had to find a solution them selfes - wich they did by attaching a Alice band - with pins.

 

 

Finally I put on some fabulous pheasant feathers. If you don't know were to get feathers; Ebay my friend,  Ebay - has it all :-)

This is a photo from the hatpresentation were Anne Kristin is the hat model.