Spring summer hats at the DeCordova

This has been a busy week here. The weather is turning more and more sunny ( maybe that is just me hoping for it!?)

If you have time this mothers day weekend visit the DeCordova museum in Lincoln.

I delivered a fun bunch of hats and a few selective scarfs.

This scarf will make you smile when you try it on!

Linen and cotton bucket hat.

Hats hats hats!

A quick preview of new hats I am showing this weekend in Somerville. Come visit me try on some hats get a early spring scarf .

Hope to see you there!

New spring line available at Turtle

Hi Everyone,

We have made it through broken arms, blue eyes, floods and stiff necks but now it is back to the sewing machine for a while.

I am showing you a sneak peak of the products now available at Turtle in the South End.

Great hats, and really fun , soft, colourful scarfs. 

I just love these giant polka dots!

This hat is light and dark linen and the small turquoise and yellow rose hat has a small black and white polka dot print as contrast. The fabric is Anna Maria Horner Garden Party

I used Anna Maria Horner's new Voile line. This fabric makes you dream and dream!

These are silk chiffon scarfs with vintage plastic rings for wait and accent.

Designer fabric hats

Today I am sharing with you some new spring / summer hats I have been making. I love the new Anna Maria Horner fabrics I bought earlier in the year. Her colour combinations are just fantastic! These roses are lovely and stand out even more with the black and white fine polka dot. The fabric is from her Garden party line.

This has got to be one of my favorite colour combinations. Pink and yellow. I think lining the brim with the yellow fabric works very well. This way you can flip the brim up and have a different look.
These fabrics are from her  Good Folks line.

The next fabric is from Patty Young's flora and fauna, Hummingbirds.
I made a wide brim hat out of this fabric this way you see even more of the little birds.

Happy sunny monday!

New summer hat

I have been so busy sewing for the house and the kids and the family but I finally got around to making a new hat. 

Yes the colors are strange but works really well together.

Who says you cant wear a hat with a purple polka dot brim?

Available on ETSY.

I know there is sunny weather out there.

Spring summer hats

Spring

How perfect! 

A nice "warm" sunshine day to make my first delivery of the season. Turtle has got my new spring hats! I just spent a nice hour with the lovely Ariel and it was a lot of fun to go though the collection and get some feedback.

This season I made a slightly bigger sunhat. For real sunny days, that we will have soon...I hope.

I used great Michael Miller and Tina Given's fabric. I bought these from sewlovefabrics on Etsy.

I really enjoyed working with these bold, vibrant colours.

The smaller brim hats feature fabric by Tina Given, Amy Butler and Heather Bailey. Again strong fun fabrics. This style is so easy to wear. I did also use some vintage fabric can you spot the one?

I really did love making all the silk chiffon scarfs. The fabric so fits my style of one of a kind. I can think of so many combinations....now I just need more time.

If you are in the area go and look at the scarfs try on some hats and welcome the warmer weather!

Spring

Working on spring, hard to believe. We have had nice weather. Last week I ordered some great new prints for hats from  sewlovefabrics. The lovely fresh bundle of fabric came with a sampler to tempt me into buying more but Ady got hold of it and started putting them together. I loved watching her line the pieces up and turn them and after a while find another use for them. Never thought of cutting squares of fabric for her.

In the studio:

After giving the studio a really good cleanup ,dust and a rethinking of space and stuff I am now busy working on a new pattern for the fabric hats and at the moment are having a lot of fun with my new line of silk chiffon scarfs. Will post photos as soon as I can.