Hat Making Project
Freeform Fascinator
Sinamay pieces, with wired and bound edges, can be turned into wonderfully striking and unique freeform fascinators.
Hat Making Project
Freeform Fascinator
Sinamay pieces, with wired and bound edges, can be turned into wonderfully striking and unique freeform fascinators.
Projects / Freeform Fascinator
Project Overview
By wiring the edges of a piece of sinamay using a sewing machine, you can create a 3-dimensional freeform fascinator in no time.
Freeform sinamay pieces, with wired and bound edges, can be turned into wonderfully striking fascinators. Use a new colour, change the shape slightly or alter the way it is twisted, and you have a completely new piece.
This technique can be used again and again, with different trimmings added, to form a whole range of unique sinamay fascinators.
These bendable shapes can be made in any size, so this is a great way to use up bits and pieces of sinamay leftover from other projects.
This tutorial was written by HATalk Founder Ann Morse-Brown and was originally published in her book, Make Fascinators.
Category: Fascinators
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What You Need
- Sinamay
- 1 yard (1 metre) spring steel millinery wire or 21 gauge aircraft modelling wire
- 3 yards (3 metres) satin bias binding to match or tone with sinamay
- Paper or thin card and pencil for pattern making
- Soft pencil (6B) for marking fabric (or neon pencil for dark coloured fabric)
- Cutting out scissors
- Small, sharp pointed scissors
- Glass-headed pins
- Thread to match sinamay colour
- Sewing machine which can sew zigzag stitches
- Darning needle
- Iron with steam setting and ironing board
- Pliers or wire cutters
- Sinamay or straw base
- Large comb
- 1 yard (1 metre) of narrow ribbon, lace, embroidery thread or yarn to bind comb, in a colour to match sinamay
Project Overview
By wiring the edges of a piece of sinamay using a sewing machine, you can create a 3-dimensional freeform fascinator in no time.
Freeform sinamay pieces, with wired and bound edges, can be turned into wonderfully striking fascinators. Use a new colour, change the shape slightly or alter the way it is twisted, and you have a completely new piece.
This technique can be used again and again, with different trimmings added, to form a whole range of unique sinamay fascinators.
These bendable shapes can be made in any size, so this is a great way to use up bits and pieces of sinamay leftover from other projects.
This tutorial was written by HATalk Founder Ann Morse-Brown and was originally published in her book, Make Fascinators.
Category: Fascinators
What You Need
- Sinamay
- 1 yard (1 metre) spring steel millinery wire or 21 gauge aircraft modelling wire
- 3 yards (3 metres) satin bias binding to match or tone with sinamay
- Paper or thin card and pencil for pattern making
- Soft pencil (6B) for marking fabric (or neon pencil for dark coloured fabric)
- Cutting out scissors
- Small, sharp pointed scissors
- Glass-headed pins
- Thread to match sinamay colour
- Sewing machine which can sew zigzag stitches
- Darning needle
- Iron with steam setting and ironing board
- Pliers or wire cutters
- Sinamay or straw base
- Large comb
- 1 yard (1 metre) of narrow ribbon, lace, embroidery thread or yarn to bind comb, in a colour to match sinamay
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