Hat Making Project
Sinamay Spirals Fascinator
Create handmade fascinator with sinamay spirals.
Hat Making Project
Sinamay Spirals Fascinator
Create handmade fascinator with sinamay spirals.
Projects / Sinamay Spirals Fascinator
Project Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a sinamay fascinator base and decorate it with flowers and sinamay spirals.
Author Anne Morse-Brown used repurposed fabric flowers taken from a wired bridal spray to embellish her headpiece. Thinking of ways to recycle and reuse millinery materials is a great way to keep your costs down and do your bit for the environment.
Like most other natural millinery materials, the fibres in sinamay react well to steam. The mixture of heat and moisture cause the fibres to loosen, making the sinamay temporarily easier to stretch and shape. This is why flat pieces of sinamay can be blocked into 3- dimensional hats and formed into shapes like the spiral trimmings in this project.
This tutorial was written by HATalk Founder Ann Morse-Brown and was originally published in her book, Make Fascinators.
Category: Fascinators, Trimmings
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What You Need
- 1 x 18 inch (46cm) square of sinamay
- 6 small ‘silk’ flowers
- Paper or thin card and pencil for pattern making
- Soft pencil (6B) for marking fabric (or neon pencil for dark coloured fabric)
- Wooden spoon with long handle or length of wooden dowelling approximately 12 inches (30cm) long
- Drawing pins
- Tube of quick-drying clear glue
- Cutting out scissors
- Small, sharp pointed scissors
- Glass-headed pins
- Thread to match both sinamay and flower colour
- Sewing machine which can sew zigzag stitches
- Darning needle
- Fine sewing needle
- Iron with steam setting and ironing board
- Decorative metal comb
Project Overview
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a sinamay fascinator base and decorate it with flowers and sinamay spirals.
Author Anne Morse-Brown used repurposed fabric flowers taken from a wired bridal spray to embellish her headpiece. Thinking of ways to recycle and reuse millinery materials is a great way to keep your costs down and do your bit for the environment.
Like most other natural millinery materials, the fibres in sinamay react well to steam. The mixture of heat and moisture cause the fibres to loosen, making the sinamay temporarily easier to stretch and shape. This is why flat pieces of sinamay can be blocked into 3- dimensional hats and formed into shapes like the spiral trimmings in this project.
This tutorial was written by HATalk Founder Ann Morse-Brown and was originally published in her book, Make Fascinators.
Category: Fascinators, Trimmings
What You Need
- 1 x 18 inch (46cm) square of sinamay
- 6 small ‘silk’ flowers
- Paper or thin card and pencil for pattern making
- Soft pencil (6B) for marking fabric (or neon pencil for dark coloured fabric)
- Wooden spoon with long handle or length of wooden dowelling approximately 12 inches (30cm) long
- Drawing pins
- Tube of quick-drying clear glue
- Cutting out scissors
- Small, sharp pointed scissors
- Glass-headed pins
- Thread to match both sinamay and flower colour
- Sewing machine which can sew zigzag stitches
- Darning needle
- Fine sewing needle
- Iron with steam setting and ironing board
- Decorative metal comb
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HATalk Subscribers – sign in below to view the full instructions for this project.
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