New Look Very Soon

This last week has been great, cold with blue skies and plenty of sunshine. What a difference a little sunlight makes in your life!

Last Saturday a lovely lady called Sarah  {simply by arrangement} delivered me a beautiful flower arrangement for the shop filled with many of my favourite flowers and foliage. I am still enjoying it as it's good and cold near the window keeping it fresh.

The shop is still open until the builders arrive and although it's a little dusty it is enjoying the sunshine pouring in through the windows.

Making continues with orders and ladies looking for hats for weddings so there's plenty to do.

Ed from Snug Gallery next door has loaned me the oak table with the carved legs, stunning isnt it? There's been lots of planning for the new interior and now things are coming together, still a million things to source but Rome wasn't built in a day !

Chrissie 

A look around the Hat Shop

 

 

This morning while the sun was out I took a few photo's of the shop as I don't have a 'virtual tour' version at the moment.
On Dec 1st I will have been open for 7 years so will be hosting a celebration and Christmas Fair with lots of textile gift ideas to choose from so if you are local do pop in for drinks and nibbles. I will also be giving at luncheon talk in Leeds for a group of ladies who work in the city. We are all meeting at a restaurant called Create, I thought that was very apt.!.I will be taking along millinery materials, and a selection of finished headwear for them to try on etc.
Finally some of my work will be featured in a Finnish wedding magazine. I think that's quite enough for one week.The following week is just as busy so I better get back to some sewing.

Vintage Hat Prints

You may remember that a while ago I bought myself some vintage prints, well here they are framed and displayed in all their glory in the shop.

As you can see I have a green selection sitting on my desk at the moment but any colour scheme seems to suit them so next week when I change items around I don't think it will matter at all.

Hope you like them as much as I do.

Vintage Hat Prints

I found these prints last week at a local antique fair and it appears that they are taken from a book as there are page numbers at the corners of each one.
I would love to know where the book came from and the title but there was no information from the seller.
Now to decide where to hang them once I find two frames.? I do have a nice space in the shop so maybe that will be their new home for a while then I might just have them at home to enjoy them myself.
Hope you enjoy them too.

Goodies for sale

My first blog

Welcome to the day to day activities of The Little Hat Shop Blog.
Sandwiched somewhere between Manchester and Leeds in the lovely Calder valley in the Market town of Hebden Bridge.

As anyone who has ever hand made anything for a living they will know there is never a dull moment.Certainly not in my workshop my silk box would send any rainy day packing.!
Add a generous mix of the general public and life really gets interesting.

Hats thrill most few even dog walkers need a great showerproof, which reminds me I need to be making quite a few of those ready for autumn showers.

Weddings are many at the moment so I have been burning the midnight oil the last few days.
It's said to be a very creative time of day after 10pm but I think it's because you get no interruptions and so get lots done, apart from the little people in your life deciding that they NEED you as soon as you pick up a needle.!

With that in mind I will get some sleep before tomorrow comes around all to quickly.