Astar's Craft: Wedding Hats, Handbags and other necessary accessories
With Astar
Celebration Weddings
This is for the mothers of the groom or bride
How to look absolutely fabulous, gorgeous and stylish
without breaking the bank
Hats, handbags and other necessary
accessories...
The Hat
How does hand-made fabric flowers made from the same
fabric as your frock along with a bit of net, and the odd sparkle
sound?
Things to gather
From Spotlight you can purchase the hat base in a shape
to suit&
Net - open weave for hats
Fabric - about a meter or two of that matches your frock&+
tulle in the same shade.
Double sided fusing
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Silk rose or similar as your template to help recreate the flowers
to adorn your hat or hand bag
Flower stamen to authenticate central areas of flowers once
made
Iron and a bit of patience
And if you want to gem flowers once completed, you'll need gem bond
glue and selection of rhinestones and other sparkle.
Hopefully the hat base is the correct colour. If not you will
need to give it a paint. I usually use satin or flat spray
paint. When spraying your hat, the best approach is one fine
coat after another until you reach desired coverage.
In a fashion to suit, pin down net to part cover eyes in the front,
or bring it over brim and up over crown of hat. Once placed, hand
stitch to keep fast.
To make the flower
If you are stuck and need a template or shape to work
from, find a cake decorating book and look in the flower making
section, this is usually where you'll find, break downs of petal
forms.
Cut out fabric into various sized circles or large rounded petal
shapes, working large at base to small towards centre.
Once cut, follow the manufacturer's instructions regarding fusing
fabric together.
Working from the base, hand stitch large petals overlapping each
other.
As indicated above, work from large petals to small in centre, hand
stitching each layer into place as your process
Optional - I also like to add here and there, petals made out of
the tulle.
Make several in various sizes.
Once finished either hand stitch to hat or hot glue into
place.
Bring the same flowers down onto a plain clutch hand bag and
embellish flowers with gems or other jewels&
(Broadcast 6 September 2012)
