It did go to our Heads...

dreadlocks and holes

Individual styling adds character

and the photographers were there!

  It all went to our heads on the hat day in Auckland. Some with Merino, making a double skinned  layer, and some with Corriedale, a much firmer less draping end fabric. Imaginations were stretched to the limits as for some the visualisation of how it would all end up eluded them until the final stages of making and styling on our heads.

 Struggling for the first time to trick wool fibres wrapped around a resist of plastic into becoming a 3 dimensional no seams hat is not simple the first few times you do it either!

 There are a few times when a hat block would be more comfortable for the model, but they are not essential. In fact styling to suit the wearer's face and head is easier and better done on the head - just don't pin into the skin!

now where should this bit go?

Trial and error and readjustments

In spite of all the new skills, and the tight one day time frame, here are the triumphant results, with a few less expected design features which only their makers could recognise now! It really is a striking and varied collection worn by their makers.   

Ignore the pins if you zoom in, there wasn’t time to sew and embellish…. I wonder how they look now that has been done? 

Ang 

adding a pleat gives dimension and sizes hat when a bit too big

the folds can follow design lines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and carry the eye around the head in curves, like the brim does too.

 

teamwork and concentration!

Flaps folds, and dreadlocks,             Back view, and

Front view of the hat shown at layout stage too.