Lazy Daisies

Amy Fowler

United States

• Crin Daisy Project by Sharon Panozzo

I love working with crinoline, so I was interested in the challenge of using knots to form flower petals. The project is fourteen years old, so I was also inspired to update the design by combining Sharon’s techniques with my own. I played with knotting all sizes and styles of crinoline and settled on using multiple sizes of tubular crinoline. By pressing the crin I was able to achieve different widths and a denser color effect than just using flat crinoline as in the original project. Instead of sewing the ends of the crin to fabric, I melted the ends together and sewed the petals to each other without any fabric support. This makes for a lighter trim without any base to try to hide. I also played with knotting multiple pieces of crinoline together and made one flower that has both black and white knotted together. This flower also had the ends overlapped and wrapped with thread to create a wider base on the petals.

The hat is made from two buntal mats blocked with an asymmetrical slope to give it a unique line. The brim is edged inside with a gloss black braid. Each of the five flowers has a different style of petal, all from tubular crin, and the centers of the flowers are made with either knotted or swirled crinoline. To make the knotted centers I tied a series of knots close together and then wound them around, sewing them together. The swirls make up the flower centers as well as vine details on the hat and were made from tightly spooled, pressed tubular crinoline. The hat is unlined so all the stitches attaching the trims had to be hidden within the straw, and carefully sewn through the black straw of the brim.

• Buntal mats
• Wire
• Straw Braid
• Tubular crinoline
• Durtex stiffener
• Ribbon

• A percher block was used for red center and a vintage block for the brim.
• I sewed a bias trim over interior brim edge for clean finish.
• The brim is wired with an asymmetrical edge.
• It is worn with a wire kickstand.
• Petersham ribbon interior head band.
• I used tubular crinoline from 4mm – 16mm for all trims.
• Most of the crin was pressed before use.
• I melted the ends of the crin to secure them.
• I used hidden stitches for trim mounted to brim and unlined crown