Everyone looking mighty fine today!!
My hat today. A black fur felt with asymmetrical crown and a wide upturned brim edge. It's my favorite hat and I made it ages ago. It's in two pieces, crown and brim blocked separately and stitched together. Faux leather trim. The hat blocks were bought new...
Steve, just WOW... and very intriguing those long stitches on the top edge of the ribbon, were those supposed to stay or to be removed as one opens a pocket on a blazer that is sewn shut?
I must confess I had to google it to make sure I had the correct spelling in French... don't ask me why I...
Hi everyone, great hats today, and the bowls blew me away too!
Esther I didn't realize at first that you had done a sort of "marqueterie"on the top of the crown. Well done!
I absolutely love this one, is the bash the original one?
Possibly, how curious! It's a small world :)
Thank you for...
I've just come to realize that this thread is a combination of world weather reports and hat awesomeness :-)
Everyone looked great today.
We would! Let's! :-)
Are you like me, with a lot of them not yet "tested" waiting to be reborn?
I agree with everyone else, AMAZING!!!!
Hi Johnny, I had...
Love the hat, looks good on you. Who made it?!
Gorgeous colour, looking smart!
@Frunobulax There's just three chicks in this thread and you're getting us mixed up! ;-)
A ribbon disk is not really necessary, you are right about that!
Let's start with the ribbon disk. Here's a link to a vendor who sells it in the US: https://www.judithm.com/products/ribbon-disk
And here it is in use, mine is from blockmakers Morse Brown:
It's only useful for straight brims (fedoras etc), if the brim curls up like on a homburg then it's of...
Well Thank you very much!! :-)
The material is fake persian lamb (astrakhan), it's like a half beret, something quite strange but looks nice, made from a vintage pattern.
I'm pretty sure they notice, you look to good not to!!
Vintage french grosgrain does indeed swirl great. I have a ribbon...
For panama hat lovers, here's a curiosity, little sachets with powder to clean panama's and straw hats. The auction (to which I'm not connected in any way) ends soon: https://www.ebay.de/itm/222342728271
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