...yes, the lurgy is still here, but I'm up and dressed...it must mean improvement! This is a truly vicious flu; I haven't been as ill as this in a long time. But I'm well enough to start thinking about things... which is a distinct improvement over lying around like a wet dish rag!
Hats, as you know, are my current fascination, and a workshop with lovely Louise has introduced me to working with felt. I do make wet felt, but have to say that this is much faster... you take a 'hood' of felt, and stretch it over a hat block. Which, I suppose, is pretty much what you do when you make your own felt... must try it. As you can see, you get amazingly sculptural shapes, depending on which kind of block you use. I particularly like this one, because I have found I can wear it in two different ways...two hats for the price of one!
We met Louise through attending a workshop organised by the equally lovely James at Hat Blocks Direct; check out his site to see all the amazing possibilities for hats...he makes the blocks by hand, and they are truly lovely; these are the blocks I've bought so far from him. The head is known as a 'dolly'; the blocks are for making small hats, such as pill boxes. At first glance, they all look the same, but there are distinct differences in the way they are finished; in combination, they produce a number of different styles. I'm having fun just working out all the different ways in which I can use them!
Now, of course, I'm trying to work out which hat blocks I need to get to make Even More Hats... watch this space!
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