Hat progress...

Despite being a bit busy, the little hat project is actually going very well! The hat itself is completed, and surprisingly didn't take very long. It came together over the course of two shows last Saturday, which considering there was only about 10 minutes not spent on standby in each show, is pretty impressive!

I made the hat by making a doughnut shape and circle just a bit bigger than the hole of the doughnut out of cardboard and covering both in royal blue felt. It was all going so well, until the moment I realised that making the middle part of the hat slant as I wanted to would require a) a piece of fairly flexible card (which I didn't have) and b) some overly complicated folding (that my tired brain didn't want to cope with).

I was sitting in the office between shows fretting about this when the stage management team reappeared with their coffee...

The costume-on-a-budget part of my brain kicked in and suddenly I had a centre part to my top hat. I found a spare Takeaway cup from the bar downstairs, cut it to size and started covering it with felt. By the end of Saturday, I had a completed little blue hat!

So, what remains to be done now is the fun part: decorating the hat with all the exciting things I found in john Lewis habidashery dept...continue watching this space for further hat progress (and maybe pictures...!)

Apologies for absence...

I've been surprised and touched by the number of people who've asked me where I've been for the last couple of months and why have I stopped blogging! The short answer is, as many of you know, commuting back and forth to London. Hence lack of time for craft projects! This may now change, however since next Saturday I've been invited to afternoon tea at the Randolph Hotel...

This momentous occaision is to celebrate a friwnd of mine completing her MA after 5 years of hard work (while still working full time)! She is herself somewhat of an epic crafter, who makes bunting at a rate of notts and sews most, if not all, of her own clothes. She also has a wonderful penchant for ceremony and, hence, has decreed that everyone should dress to the nines and that hats are mandatory!

At some point when I first found out about this, I got excited and told her I'd make a hat rather than buying one. Now I have 1 very heavy work week remaining to complete this project which I have yet to start...

So, my plan is to head to john Lewis's habidashery department tomorrow before work and grab some things to create a small facinator type top hat...

Will I get it made? Watch this space...