Autumn/Winter Collection

After enjoying every last bit of sunshine we've had over the last few months I'm now well aware that Autumn is fast approaching and it's probably time to get my self organised and plan my designs for my Autumn/ Winter hat range. As my Etsy shop is becoming more established I decided I wanted to create a range of full sized hats each season as well my fun little hatties and fascinators. 

So I set about designing my first range. I thought about the styles I wanted to concentrate on and the colours I wanted to work with. I love all the rich autumn colours and decided tweed fabric would be a great fabric to use to create some decorations for the hats. As I like to have the fabrics in front of me to play with and come up with ideas I scoured eBay to find some pieces of fabric to practise on. Tweed is very expensive to buy by the metre but luck was obviously on my side and I came across a seller who had a few bags of genuine Harris Tweed remnants in all sorts of colours and patterns. Perfect! I was so excited to receive my package in the mail and immediately tipped all the pieces onto the table in front of me and waited for inspiration to hit. After playing around for a while I made some little two layered bows from the tweed in complementing colours and thought these would look sweet perching on a beret or on the side of a fedora. 

I adore the rich orange and red tones of this bow and the pretty tartan pattern really makes me think of winter. 

I also created a cute flower which I finished in the middle with a button I covered in contrasting tweed. I used the decorations on a few of the hats I had made up and I really loved the finished look. I want to get a range fedoras and berets on my Etsy shop soon using these pretty tweed decorations. Below are a few sneak previews of the range so far.

Love and Hattiness

Sally x

A little black number.

I have been playing around for a little while now with a little midi sized bowler hat in lovely black felt. I wanted to use the cockades I have been making to decorate it and made some lovely ones from velvet ribbon. I love decorating my hats but it takes a while to get it just how I want it! After lots of fiddling around though I have finally got a hat I'm happy with.

I love this hat! I love the soft hackle feathers peeping out behind the ribbon cockades. The button is the perfect size to sit in the middle of the cockade and finishes it off perfectly.

Cute little bowler. I love the feathers!



Pretty Ribbon Cockade! The velvet ribbon creates a great pattern with the contrast of the flat reverse side of the ribbon and the fuzzy top side.



I love this little button. It works so well on this little hat!

This hat is available on my Etsy shop www.sallyannecostumes.etsy.com.

As always,
Love and Hattiness

Sally x

New Hat Style.

I've been playing around with a new style of mini top hat. It has a shorter crown and it's so cute! It's a much easier style to wear and seems to suit everyone. I can just see Victorian ladies swanning around with these perching on their up-do's and i have tried to use this as my inspiration for the decoration. Green is my favourite colour and I love the rich tones of the green velvet ribbon against this lovely brown felt. The soft hackle feathers have so much movement in them and sit perfectly behind the ribbon cockade. I want to make a range of these before I put them on my Etsy shop. Using Victorian influences with a hint of steampunk, I'm really excited to put together a collection of these little hats. All I need now is to come up with a name!

The shorter style is so adorable! The hat perches on the head and is held in place with elastic tucked behind the hair. 

I love making these ribbon cockades to decorate my hats. The pretty pewter button really finishes it off perfectly.

I would love to hear what you think of it! Will post more pics soon.

Love and Hattiness,

Sally x