Hat Winners.

I am proud to announce I won the female category of the hat competition held at work!
I am now $50 richer.
Hurray!

Fascinating! How to make an 'x-ray' themed fascinator

A hat competition is being held on Melbourne Cup day at work which I plan to participate in. The prize is a $50 voucher and initially I was going to buy this extravagant fascinator for $40 but decided to make my own instead...out of x-ray film! A much cheaper alternative and so much more fun! So I went to my old work place to gather some free film and went to spotlight and spent $12 on materials (50% off millinery materials - yay).


Materials bought: Headband, hat base, 1 metre of veil, a variety of feathers & rhinestones

Construction:
I gathered the veil and folded it until I was happy with the formation and sewed it underneath the base and then sewed the base to the headband itself.
Arrange the feathers and stuck it on to the hat base with craft glue.
Cut out flower shapes from the x-ray film and curled each petal with fingers. Using a paper fastener, joined each different sized flower shapes together. Glue flower onto base.
Glued a rhinestone in the middle of the flower.
Cut out feather shapes from x-ray film and attach to wires. Attach to base.

In Construction:



X-ray Film Flower Cut outs.



Combined Flower cut outs and Rhinestones.

Melbourne Cup hat

Ahhh, yes, with the Melbourne Cup coming up on the Tuesday, it has got the younglings excited (Rob's Little sister) and she asked me for materials to make her a melbourne cup race hat! So with the little materials I had gathered from my art and craft bag --->> I made the ultimate race hat.


Behold, my awesome race hat!

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