It has been a while since I picked up a pair of knitting needles to make something. One of my favourite things to knit is socks. I have two pairs of hand knitted socks already and these are far more comfortable then than machine knitted ones. I prefer to knit on bamboo knitting needles as they more friendly to my hands. The steel needles make my ha...
Making artificial flowers in silk fabric is almost a lost art. However, it is being kept alive by milliners who are interested in creating customized decorations for hats. I learned this technique in Melbourne at the 2010 conference of the Millinery Association of Australia ( http://www.millineryaustralia.org ). We learned how to prepare silk fabric, patt...
This is an out of print pattern I have in my collection McCall's 4806 medieval and renaissance hats. I made view D the muffin cap and added some bling with silver and black gimp braid, brown velvet ribbon and an ostrich feather. You can curl feathers using the back of closed scissors and running the blade long the feather's spine. This hat ha...
I never thought I would finish this project just in time to see in the new year. Well this is how it turned out. I know that my patience ran out at a few stages during construction may be resulting in a less than perfect finish. However, what are you going to do when you have university deadlines, planning for Christmas and organizing a social club...
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