Sini Tuulia<p>A hat. It doesn't quite please me, but I refuse to buy anything new for it, and it's got the bee brooch on so I'm just gonna call it done! (Apologies for what looks like eye contact, I'm staring at the phone screen actually.)<br>It's really hard to make a hat that looks good from all angles, and I have once again struggled. But it's a hat, I finally used this gold trim I had and the bee, and that's enough.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoryBounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryBounding</span></a></p>
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Sini Tuulia<p>Completely out of ideas how to finish the hat except putting on the bee brooch, and entirely not enthused about going over the poorly sewn petersham, I am now putting some excess beads on the hat. It doesn't need them, but they will conveniently disguise the bad edge and is less boring to do, so!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>The rosette thing I am pretty pleased with, though really I'd love to come up with more gold bits, to balance it out a bit. Some beads, maybe? Maybe the bee? It's quite heavy, and is held against the crown with a little bit of ribbon going through buttonholes, tied on the inside, so it can be adjusted!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Some hat progress. I've managed to do the underside of the turned up brim, which was one of my two goals. We'll see if I can wrangle the bee brooch somewhere, too! Not wanting cats to chew on it it's in a little case, so I can't actually model it on anywhere with sufficiently little effort... The satin and velvet ribbons hanging off the gold rosette will stand out better against red hair, but yeah. Trying on gif!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Look. I do wish there was absolutely any call to wear something like this today. 😆 Imagine this with an enormous hat like here, but also with sunglasses and a mask, and just being all: "You wish to perceive me? Absolutely the fuck not!"</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Edwardian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Edwardian</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoricalFashion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoricalFashion</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Waiting for inspiration on what to do with the hat decorations, I've been up to my new nonsense, which is making hat veiling from regular old netting.<br>Just drew some lines on pattern paper, went over with a narrow zigzag, tore off the paper... Veiling!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Well, it's certainly a hat base, and it does the main things a hat should do: Goes on your head and shields your eyes from the sun. Everything else is more or less negotiable, but we've got those! It will look silly and off balance before it gets the decorations, and may look silly and off balance after it also, but a hat base has been accomplished. Trying on gif.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Working on another little hat, hopefully this one will finally get the little bee brooch on it. But! I resolved not to use my large quantity of modern buckram because it just feels so icky to work with, truly a sensory nightmare... But this fusible interfacing I've put on is also bloody useless! The hat is to be slightly softer and floppier anyway, but at this point it has the structure of a used handkerchief, so I'm not holding my breath.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Well, it's done. I of course cannot be arsed to take proper photos of it right away, but there's now a new hat.<br>I couldn't put the bee brooch on it, so I put in some little bead dragonflies instead! Overall it's quite sparkly and has a bunch of stuff on it, and now I have yet another medium to large hat to choose from for my hatting needs.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoryBounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryBounding</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Really trying to be extremely creative to add in at least some of the gold tones, as my gold ribbon is the wrong weight and texture to go with the rest... The hat doesn't entirely need it, but I want it to be more bumblebee coloured than it is!<br>Some tiny sewing.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>"Time to start doing something more sensible", she says to herself and immediately pivots to sewing satin and organza ribbon together to make hat decorations in the colour of her favourite bumblebee. 🐝 </p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Oh heck, I can't believe it worked! One of the tomes (an old Victorian millinery manual) suggested using newspaper tissue paper to help turn edges or sew sequins or lace onto tulle or veiling... And I went "hmm" and then tried if I could put a lattice and bead design on soft tulle... And holy shit.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Anyway, millinery progress photos, two are selfies. At first we have what is technically a hat! Then I made some trim by putting this horrendously loud organza ribbon on this black satin ribbon. And then I put a bunch of tulle and the combined ribbon on hat.<br>It's not bad, just kind of in just one direction, so I'll likely put more stuff on it.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoryBounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryBounding</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>And, in little hat: Yesterday put on the brim wire and petersham. You could do this by machine if you were willing to get annoyed at the million clips and/or pins you'd need, but I just did it by hand.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/SewingWithCats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SewingWithCats</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Meanwhile, in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> land: Unpacked my parcel of ribbons, petersham etc. and tried to get started putting on the petersham... But my breathing apparatus hated whatever chemical smell there was on them, and ironing them didn't help, so now I'm washing them and a bunch of socks I guess so I can actually work with them. I guess I can attach the lining and the brim wire in the meantime.</p><p>Being so sensitive, it's kind of a fucking hassle. 🥲</p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Funnily enough I had much more concerns about how to Properly make a hat until I skimmed multiple Victorian and Edwardian millinery manuals. Turns out the people who absolutely could not get enough of hats? Did not much care how hat was made, as long as hat was made!</p><p>This one is just scrap fabric out of these little wedge and brim shapes I drafted. Brim reinforced with modern buckram, the underside of it I pleated and topstitched a bunch of random black cotton on.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>The current state of the little hat. Here with alternative styling options (cat) and undergoing inspection (cats).</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Sewing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sewing</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Gotta love how printers won't print if there's only black ink left. Not even in greyscale! Not using that vintage pattern, then. I'd have been altering it heavily anyway, so let's just do a bit of paper craft to figure out the shape and size of hat I want to make, eyeballing it all the way...</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>A lot of the times I walk past my stack of hats I both yearn for one of those old fashioned hat stands... And think that I should really wear Second Largest Hat more. It's rather large!<br>The second photo is from the making of, where I sewed on pieces of embroidered lace by hand. There's a bit of veiling on top of it I've since changed my mind about, but I haven't changed it because I don't wear it!</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/HistoryBounding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HistoryBounding</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Hats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hats</span></a></p>
Sini Tuulia<p>Today, in <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/OldManuals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OldManuals</span></a> and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Millinery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Millinery</span></a>: <br>"There was a time in the millinery business when the trimmer was expected to construct as well as trim each individual frame, they being held, when sold at all, at exorbitant prices and at that only the most common ones being obtainable. That time has passed, as they can now be purchased in any desirable shape at but little in advance of the price of making and this with a vast saving of time and patience.</p><p>It is necessary, however, that the woman be familiar with at least the making of the most common frame or what is known as the flat frame, in order that she may alter or repair a hat in an intelligent manner."</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/homemillinerycou00nati/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/homemillin</span><span class="invisible">erycou00nati/page/22/mode/2up?view=theater</span></a></p>
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