Hat Making Project
Leather Cocktail Hat
Block, line and trim a leather cocktail hat with a buckram foundation.
Hat Making Project
Leather Cocktail Hat
Block, line and trim a leather cocktail hat with a buckram foundation.
Projects / Leather Cocktail Hat
Project Overview
This leather cocktail hat is a great project to try if you are ready to start blocking hats. Using a wooden fascinator block, you can create a lined leather button hat. The curled quill trimmings add elegance and height without too much fuss.
Leather continues to remain on trend for hats, fascinators and millinery trimmings. This cocktail hat project calls for kid leather because it is soft and pliable, making it much easier to shape on a hat block than a thicker variety.
Cocktail hats are usually small and generally don’t have a brim. They were traditionally worn to semi-formal evening events as they pair so well with cocktail dresses. They were especially popular in the 1930s, when glamorous movie stars often wore them. A cocktail hat is a great choice if you want to make a chic millinery statement without wearing a big brim.
This leather cocktail hat tutorial was written by British milliner Judy Bentinck of Millinery Courses London.
Category: Fascinators, Hats
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What You Need
- Cocktail Hat Block (The block used in this tutorial is an FB13 Fascinator/Button Block from Guy Morse-Brown Hat Blocks)
- Plastic Wrap
- Tape Measure
- Scissors
- Buckram
- Kitchen Roll (Paper Towel)
- Iron
- Interfacing
- Soft Kid Leather
- Strong Pins for Blocking
- Pins (Indicator and Quilter’s)
- Needle and Thread
- Lining Fabric (eg. Silk Dupion)
- Petersham Ribbon
- 2 Quills
- Curling Iron
- Permanent Marker (Quill Colour)
- Hat Elastic
Project Overview
This leather cocktail hat is a great project to try if you are ready to start blocking hats. Using a wooden fascinator block, you can create a lined leather button hat. The curled quill trimmings add elegance and height without too much fuss.
Leather continues to remain on trend for hats, fascinators and millinery trimmings. This cocktail hat project calls for kid leather because it is soft and pliable, making it much easier to shape on a hat block than a thicker variety.
Cocktail hats are usually small and generally don’t have a brim. They were traditionally worn to semi-formal evening events as they pair so well with cocktail dresses. They were especially popular in the 1930s, when glamorous movie stars often wore them. A cocktail hat is a great choice if you want to make a chic millinery statement without wearing a big brim.
This leather cocktail hat tutorial was written by British milliner Judy Bentinck of Millinery Courses London.
Category: Fascinators, Hats
What You Need
- Cocktail Hat Block (The block used in this tutorial is an FB13 Fascinator/Button Block from Guy Morse-Brown Hat Blocks)
- Plastic Wrap
- Tape Measure
- Scissors
- Buckram
- Kitchen Roll (Paper Towel)
- Iron
- Interfacing
- Soft Kid Leather
- Strong Pins for Blocking
- Pins (Indicator and Quilter’s)
- Needle and Thread
- Lining Fabric (eg. Silk Dupion)
- Petersham Ribbon
- 2 Quills
- Curling Iron
- Permanent Marker (Quill Colour)
- Hat Elastic
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