Outsider Hats and a Rose Saturday 12:00 - 6:00 $130  
  Jennifer Whitmer    


Student Level: All - no hat making experience needed
Type of Workshop: Project

 

    In this fun, experimental hat making class students will learn the basics of working with fine parisisal straw to create a one of a kind, vintage-style hat using easy “outsider” (that is, non-traditional and geared towards the novice) millinery techniques. Using their own heads as hat blocks and their own sense of whimsy and design, students will learn a free-form approach to hat making by using a sewing machine to create form in a shapeless straw bag known as a “hood”. Each hat becomes entirely unique by using easy methods of wiring, pleating, folding and machine/hand stitching the straw.

    As for trim detail there is nothing like a beautiful, hand-turned rose. Students will learn to make an old fashioned rose with leaves from luscious hand-dyed, silk charmeuse. There will be time during class to create several roses of different colors and sizes to use as hat trim or as a versatile brooch.

    Note: Minimal sewing machine skills are necessary - the ability to thread and operate one’s own sewing machine and to sew forward and backward are all the skills that are needed.

    Optional Kit/Materials fee* of $35 payable to Instructor at class time includes:
    1 parisisal hood
    hand-dyed silk for flowers and leaves
    grosgrain ribbon
    cord elastic
    brim wire
    pin backs
    crinoline
    millinery needle
    thread to match the hood
    labels

    Supplies Provided by Instructor:
    handouts

    Supply List:
  • sewing machine
  • 1 spool of black sewing thread
  • scissors
  • straight pins
  • 6” metal ruler or sewing gauge
  • seam ripper
  • pen

    *Students choosing not to purchase kit from Instructor must bring the following items:
     1 parisisal hood or capeline
    1/2 yard hand-dyed silk charmeuse, cut on the bias into 2 1/2 inch wide strips, for flowers
    1/4 yard green silk for leaves
    1 yard of 7/8 inch #5 black millinery grosgrain ribbon
    1 yard black cord elastic
    45 inches of #19 steel brim wire
    2 pin backs
    1/8 yard crinoline
    1 millinery needle
    thread to match the hood
    2 labels, 1 1/4 inches by 2 inches

Questions? Email Jennifer jenniferwhitmer@earthlink.net