Monday, February 17, 2014

Vintage Cloche Hat with Highbury Designs on the 15th and 16th Feb 2014.


Introducing a new workshop to ECAC can be a daunting experience. My aim here at ECAC is to find wonderful classes, sometimes a bit wild and wonderful but things that perhaps people would have have heard of. You are taking a big chance that the class will fill. The glory about us here is our classes are small anyway. We never take more then 8 in any class.

So a few months back at the Nicola Brown Wet Felting workshop Nicola mentioned a wonderful girl called Amanda Byrne and I should contact her. So I did. 

Amanda is a darling and we arranged a class that would take place about 4 months later in Feb 2014. 
As usual the time just flew by and the weekend of the 15th and 16th was just upon us. I was super excited to make a hat that I would wear in the winter on a daily basis. I love hats and just adored these designs so couldn't wait to make my own.

Eventually the morning came for the class and Amanda Arrived with all her goodies...
We had a wonderful selection of colours to choose from. I had initially thought I would go for Navy but after trying on the colours I knew I would have to go for Pink. We all had so much fun even doing this part. WE were like a group of women in a changing room together commenting on how you looked in that colour..."Oh no, you have to go for the purple it's perfect on you. It suits your eyes and sure haven't you got purple glasses". You can see us now..

We learnt lots of new terms and phrases as many of the ladies had never made a hat before. Each hat immediately started taking on its own design between choosing the colour felt and the Peter Sham, (which i just learnt was the ribbon).
The class was set up and we were ready to go..
Paper and pencils were at the ready..

Then we were introduced to the star of the show. The vintage hat block. There was many hat blocks to choose from but we all seemed to focus in on a few of same ones which worked out fine..

Amanda was a wonderful tutor. So forth coming with her information and also very patient.
Let the fun begin...

Having some fun with the Felt...
After the first day we had to leave the hats to dry until the following day.
Imelda one of the ladies attending the class doing some hand stitching in the conservatory.
I just love this hat made by one of the students. Each of our personalities shone through the hat we had just created.
With my own hat I had of course to add a piece of crochet.
The flower embellishment I had made a few months previous at the Wet felting workshop with Nicola Brown.



 Love this hat on Mags. She was so proud of her Hat.
 While at the class Amanda asked us to be a bit creative with the felt and this is what Imelda made. Isn't it wonderful.
 Imelda's hat turned out wonderful. She is looking forward to making another hat at the next workshop.

 I just love Brids hat and the Pink and Red together. Isn't this beautiful on her.
Its a colour that would suit so much.
So that's about it really. We had great fun over the two days. Keep a look out for the next Workshop in Millinery on the 2nd March with Bridget Bailey Tomlin and also a workshop on the 5th April with Lina Stein.

So folks that's it really. If you would like to come along to the next Cloche two day workshop let us know and email us today on sbredindesign@eircom.net.

Love and Laughs. 
Shirley















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