Sneaker's a good sport but you can tell he is not at all impressed to be modeling my summer hat. Unlike Elsa (photo here of Elsa-the-dog sporting a child's hat)-- however, she was a girl and seemed to enjoy getting dressed up.
Nevertheless, Sneaker obliged me long enough to get a few photos of my attempt to avoid frumpy summer hat. This is Vogue 7600, view B. It has an incredibly wide brim at the front -- so wide that after a few hours at the beach one summer day, my face remained white while the rest of me tanned well! (On one of our few days of sun!). I top stitc
hed the brim with various embroidery stitches on my machine, a chance to try out a few. It's made of a soft, cotton remnant from my stash. I'd purchased it at a used fabric sale with the hope of making a comfy shirt. While there wasn't enough fabric for a shirt, it ended up being the perfect material for a summer hat. The cotton breaths. Ideally, I'd love to add some ribbon and a flower or two. However, since this mostly gets used while camping or at the playground, somehow the silk flower won't do!
2 comments:
Love the hat Shelley, Sneakers is such a good sport!!
You are right Shelly. If seeing my work encourages others to sew it is well worth it. After all it was the work of others that I saw displayed that encouraged me to enter in the first place. I already have some ideas for next year floating around in my mind, and who knows, I might even start baking pies to enter as a sideline. Thanks for the encouragement!
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