Sewing, vintage pledge

Channeling Audrey

I wasn’t going to blog yet another hat make, except that this one has a few features that I felt made it blogworthy, and also for me to expound some of my lessons learned for future reference. It is once again the Vogue 9230 from 1975 but this time I was going to ensure that […]

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Sewing

New hats to don (or doff!)

This month’s theme for the Make a Garment a Month sewalong on Instagram is “November Needs”. Well, I needed a wide-brimmed hat, so I dug out a pattern and found some fabric and I was good to go. The fabric is a linen/metal mix from Potters (from about six years ago) and the pattern is […]

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