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Summer Straws and Winter Furs
As the time until baby number two arrives get fewer and fewer, my work time has been more and more devoted to making, rather than blogging, so today is just going to be a bit of show and tell.I've just...
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1940s Felt Turban collaboration with Rockagirl
I've been lucky to collaborate with some amazing people in the last few years, and the images from these collaborations always take my breath away.Last year I worked with Polish pin-up model Maja,...
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"My Vintage Cover" - a Photo Recreation Challenge
I'm back! As promised, I am now a mother of two. It's quite exhausting. The business is still on maternity leave, but the blog is returning a little earlier for a fun community event.If you follow...
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Where to find vintage magazine covers
Next week sees the start of August and the My Vintage Cover photo challenge! If you missed the details about the challenge, you can read it all in my last post.Today I wanted to talk about ways of...
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My Vintage Cover: The Polka Dot Edition
August is here, which means it's time for the My Vintage Cover challenge to begin. I thought I'd try to get one done early to get the ball rolling, and I hope to find time for one more before the month...
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Learning: Lace Millinery
After making a start on ribbon embroidery, my next learning experience for the year was lace millinery. I finished my first piece using the technique before I had the baby, but I put off sharing the...
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My Vintage Cover: The Red Beret Edition
The problem with researching places to find vintage magazine cover images was that I found so many that I want to recreate! Some require a lot of effort, clothes or accessories I don't have, or special...
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Trove Pattern Project - A 1930 "Smart Little Turban"
The earliest vintage hat pattern I have so far used is this turban from 1930. I keep thinking of it as 1920s, and it almost is, but we can probably all agree it is at least in a very 20s style. I've...
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My Vintage Cover: The Red Gloves Edition
Another vintage cover! I'm really pleased with myself for doing three this month. although there was still one more that I really wanted to attempt. Oh well, next time!This was one I spotted in a book...
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Welcome to Snoodtember 2017
Somehow it's already that time of year again! Snoodtember: a time to celebrate all things snood, time to have fun with this vintage classic accessory and take a lot of heavily filtered snood-selfies.As...
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Snoods from other decades
Snoods really hit their stride in the 1940s, but that isn't the only decade in which they appeared. Since this week is "Era hopping" for Snoodtember, why don't we have a little look at some inspiration...
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Reviewing the 1942 Bow Snood Pattern
Last year for Snoodtember, I shared a number of free vintage Australian snood patterns, and asked my sister Rhiannon (of Parlour Duck Crafts) to look over the instructions and tell us how they...
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Learning: Lace Millinery meets Halo Crowns
My year of learning continues! This latest headpiece uses a combination of skills I learned this year, through the Hat Academy online classes I got for Christmas. The lace millinery I spoke about...
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What being a work-from-home mum looks like for me
Let me begin by saying that this is not an advice post. Far from it. It is just me sharing my experiences, mostly because I've found advice of this kind to be something I can't relate to, one way or...
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The Trove Pattern Project - Reviewing Free Vintage Hat Patterns
It's been more than three years since I attempted the first vintage millinery pattern that I found in the pages of the Australian Women's Weekly, and two years since I started my official attempt to...
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"Lace Garden" mini collection
As you may or may not know, as well as selling through Etsy, I have my hats in a local bricks-and-mortar shop, called The Blackheath Hub, which stocks the work of over 100 artisans from the Blue...
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Flowers, crinoline, and a place for millinery
This latest custom creation combines two more new skills (I said I wanted to learn this year, and I'm really doing it!) but I'll have to talk more about each of them another time.I actually took...
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Say hello to the Grevillea beret pattern!
More than a year in the making, my first hat sewing pattern is here, and I'm delighted to finally share the Grevillea Beret with you. Choosing what the first pattern should be wasn't easy, but when I...
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Sisterhood of the Travelling Hat: Tanith
Three years ago I had a newborn baby and I made a felt hat that would travel the world. It was a journey that I expected to take a year, that ended up taking three, when it should have taken two. It's...
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Tutorial: Adding felt appliqué birds to your Grevillea Beret
Today I'm sharing the pattern and instructions for adding some birds to your Grevillea Beret using felt. As you know, I love felt, I love berets, and I love birds on hats, (I reallylovebirds on hats.)...
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Learning: Crinoline Veils
Last year's learning streak continues this year, and I am still loving my online millinery courses through Hat Academy, to keep my skills moving forward even when I don't have much free time for my...
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7 Hat Projects for Recycling Clothes and Using up Scraps
Most hats require smaller quantities of fabric than garments, so they are a great way to use up scrap fabric or refashion garments. After reading Nicole's excellent post on 12 Ways to Recycle Used...
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"My Vintage Cover" is back!
I hope you're in the mood for some vintage image recreations, because "My Vintage Cover" is coming back this August!Like last year, Nicole of The Artyologist and I are hosting this community challenge...
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A Family Circle Cover Recreation
Last year, when I found this Family Circle cover from 1958, I knew I wanted to recreate it. It just felt really me. Not just the hats, but the cheerful feeling of it too, drew me in. I ran out of time...
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Introducing "Cherry Stripe" - a 1940s-inspired snood with striped bows
I have a special Snoodtember present for my vintage-loving crocheters: a brand new (and completely free) pattern for a vintage-inspired snood! We've called her "Cherry Stripe" (Aussie chocolate pun...
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