Throwing together a hat for the strawberry festival on Saturday. $2 hat from Walmart, and stuff from stash. I hope it looks good enough to pass with the rest of the suffragette outfit. I am going to go look at more photos and decide if it needs a huge bow.
Materials:
- $2 pink hat from Walmart that looks kinda like straw but was totally plastic. It is woven strips, which is nice, but the whole hat makes a kind-of squeaky sound if you mess with it.
- 1 Yard of cotton voile, plus a few scraps to patch inside the brim.
- 2″ wide cotton lace that I think isn’t delicate enough, bah.
- Remnants of some ivory ribbon I had in a box.
- Curled ostrich feathers.
- Pansies from a craft store.
- No glue! Mwah ah ah.
- No, really I didn’t use glue because I can’t find my hot glue gun, I have fallen a couple of times lately and I don’t want to get up and look for it, and I don’t really like the lace so there is a good chance I will want to take it off and start over.
- No hat pins! Drat, I didn’t think that one through.
The original hat
Adding ostrich feathers
This photo also really shows the quality difference in feathers. On the left- one top quality feather. On the right- three cheap feathers. The ones on the right aren’t truly white either. You get what you pay for!
Adding flowers
These aren’t the very best silk flowers, but pansies are the flower worn by Suffragettes, so pansies it is. I love the splash of color they add to the hat.
Ready to wear!
