Wedding Preperations

March today and as we slide towards Easter that means one thing for lots of milliners.

WEDDINGS.

Lots of people get married at Easter as schools have a 2 week holiday and it's the first chance of slightly warmer weather here in the U.K. although it's never guaranteed.!

So although we are still selling warmer hats and accessories we are pushing ahead with hats for Spring weddings and here are a few from last week.

A knotted straw with asymmetrical brim and pretty print trim. A soft green button hat with hand tooled silk apple blossom and a two tone grey and ivory medium topper hat with a distressed crin trim.

All very different but then so are weddings.

Which would you choose.?

Spring Weddings

 

 

 

 

 

Spring weddings have been planned many months ago but not everyone buys their head wear at the same time as their dress. In fact I see many brides who choose their head wear much closer to the day.

It can be sometimes tricky to find just what you're looking for and of course no two weddings are the same so the scope for design is very wide.

This is great for the milliner as it gives a full rein to make a wonderful range of various shapes out of many types of materials.

Here are three very different styles that would appeal to quite different styles of brides.

Which would you choose.?

wedding window

Almost everyone I know watched part of the Royal Wedding last week, I really enjoyed all the hats of course as well as the fabrics, shapes, colours and accessories.

I wanted to have a vintage feeling to one of my shop windows just prior to the wedding and to achieve this, wrapped some silk around some mdf that had been cut into a dressing table mirror shape.

Then I pinned pattern pieces, photographs taken by Shelly at Toast and a beautiful hand embroidered lavender heart by carolinewattsembroidery .

On one side I have a hat block,scissors,pins,tape measure and threads with a sign that reads 'where design meets traditional skills'.

All the hats where of a neutral tone, two pill box, one with veiling, one made from window sinamay and a window sinamay brimmed hat with a silk organza crown.

I did have some green foliage and a tulip but that wilted very quickly as it was very sunny.

The only problem has been trying to get a great photograph through the glass.!

I am going to keep the display for another week but change the hats for bridal headdresses and accessories.

Sparkle and shine

This began as an image in a clients head and then I had make that image real. NO pressure then.
I ordered the coloured beads and crystals and began to make a template of the main shape.
Little be little it started to look like my sketch.A small sigh of relief at this point.
I then had to thread and thread and thread all those tiny beads which were woven in and out of the frame.
It took me HOURS and Hours but when finished looked amazing.
Fitting it to the headband and keeping it secure was another thing all together, but after a few changes in design it worked.The band was covered in the spare material of the clients dress.
She was delighted with it and it looked fantastic on.
Think I'll leave beading projects alone for a couple of weeks.!!
Hope you enjoy the pictures.