Millinery on PBS

Mostly Millinery has been watching "Cranford" on PBS's Masterpiece Theater. Wonderful views of headwear and bonnets. A "must-see"!

Inspired forgot the photo

Here's the photo that was supposed to have gone with the last blog:

Millinery shop window in Tours, France

Inspired wants to share this photo to brighten your day! It's a view in a millinery shop window and  was taken by a young French student on her way to class.

Making a hat

Finished a hat made out of "new" flat felt (used to be used by milliners of yore). Embellished it last night. Then this morning it looked as though the embellishment was done by "loving hands at home"! So...back to the proverbial drawing board. Now have an idea in the head that should look more professional. Tonight's project that will be!

Millinery

"Cranford", a mini series currently on PBS Masterpiece Theater,  has some great closeups of women's millinery. Last night's installment showed underpinnings of some of the bonnets. There are many camera close ups so one can easily see the details.

millinery class

Penland is having a millinery class this spring. So tempting!!! 

millinery class

Oooh! Just saw that Penland Craft School is offering a millinery class this summer! So tempting!

Today's Winter Market

Winter Market at the Indianapolis Eiteljorg museum went well today! Mostly Millinery reached the sales quote planned for the day and, most importantly, met lots of interesting people!

Inspired at the Eiteljorg Winter Market

Two days 'til the Winter Market at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis! Mostly Millinery will have lots of inspired millinery for sale! Women's hats, hats for little girls, ribbon embellishments for lapel or one's own chapeau, and holiday fascinators!

Hand dying straw hoods

Hand dyed two straw hoods last night - turned out well. My fingers are the same lovely shade of Dharma fiber reactive Royal Blue dye ! The hoods will be blocked and made into girly girl hats for girly girls! It's so much run to watch little girls come up to my booth and fall in love with hats! Tonight it's Dharma Black Cherry.

Making hats

Inspired (Mostly Millinery) is busy finishing hats for the Eiteljorg Winter Market on Dec. 5. This time Inspired is making some fabric hats and sewing them. One pattern developed a year or so ago is more fun to make  than another pattern. Don't know why, though.

There will also be the traditionally hand blocked and embellished hats available at the Market. All hats are one of a kind and created by hand. No glue used!!!!

New Website!

Inspired (aka Mostly Millinery) has a new web site! Check it out! www.mostlymillinery.com.

Inspired Millinery

Inspired's been jury selected to be one of the artists at the Winter Market at the Eiteljorg in Indianapolis! Yippee!

Inspired Millinery on Etsy.com

Inspired listed four hats on Etsy.com today. Shop name is inspiredhats.

Oh my, it's been such a long time since I've been here! I've had a lengthy bout with facial dermatitis. Bit of information: hats can, to some degree, hide or disguise problems with the facial skin!

I went to "the" Walmart today to do a bit of shopping. Entering the store I saw a woman of indeterminate age pushing a cart and chatting with a man who appeared to be her son. She had on an average ready to wear hat and had draped it with a long scarf which she'd tied into a bow. She looked amazing. I suppose that she stood out because women just don't wear hats around here. I wanted to say something to her, but didn't. While I was in the store, I saw her again several times. Finally when I came to the end of my shopping, I once again saw her and this time I did tell her how wonderful she looked. She was a dear! She was so pleased to be noticed and complimented.

I also saw a younger middle aged woman wearing a ball cap. Not that a ball cap is especially notable, but she had beautiful hair pulled through the opening in the back and wore a nice casual outfit which coordinated with her cap color.

Inspired Millinery

Whoa! It's been a while since the last post. Inspired Millinery is working on a new web site. Hope to get it out soon.

The Milliner has traveled to Paris recently and been inspired by the wonderful hats at Le Bon Marche department store.

Inspired Millinery

One of Inspired's hats went to the Hanover College graduation ceremony on Saturday. It was not an outrageous hat, but it garnered second glances. It's always interesting to find that the compliments come from children or young adults and not the generations who grew up wearing hats to everything and everywhere.

More inspired millinery

Check out more inspired millinery at inspiredhats.etsy.com!

Inspired Millinery

Inspired was recently given a "bunch" of turkey feathers! Should make some gorgeous hats come fall and winter!

Millinery Inspirations!

Hmmm! It's been awhile since Inspired Millinery has blogged. I. M. was busy over the weekend checking out art fairs as possible venues for selling hats! 

Inspired Millinery

Wow! Time passes!

I'm off to check out an art fair in Louisville as a possible venue for selling my hats next year.

Inspired Millinery

Check out my Etsy page where I am selling hats (women's and girl's). My store name is inspired hats. I will be listing more hats in the next few weeks.

Inspired Millinery at the Eiteljorg!

Here's a copy of the poster with one of my hats that the Eiteljorg Museum used for the Women's Market last week. Not only was my hat used on the poster, but it appeared on the huge banner hanging from the second floor of the Eiteljorg!

Inspired Millinery for Little Girls

Making people happy by making and selling hats to them was one of the highlights of the Women's Market at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis last weekend. The other highlight was selling to little girls - they were so excited with the hats designed for them and had no pre-conceived notions about whether they'd look good in a hat or how they placed the hat on their head. And all of them looked adorable! Photos of a few of the hats that sold are in this blog.

Inspired Millinery at the Eiteljorg Women's Market

Inspired Millinery has been taken to the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis in preparation for the Women's Market tomorrow! The show looks as though there is going to be some great stuff to see and buy. 

Indianapolis downtown is a madhouse right now. Lots of folks coming up from Kentucky for the NCAA play-offs, all sorts of construction getting Indy ready for the Super Bowl in a few years. Lots of stuff going on to do this weekend!

Inspired Millinery

Inspired Millinery is happy for the warm weather! Here is a photo of an Inspired hat made in Inspired's favorite colors.

Inspired Millinery

Great weather outside today! Inspired Millinery is busy dying straw for hats for little girls. The weather is perfect for drying them outside!

Inspired MIllinery

Inspired Millinery is getting excited about the Women's Market at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis the last Saturday of this month! Hats are ready to go - maybe one or two more to make. Little girl hats have turned out well - definitely want to make one or two more - need to dye the straw first.

Happy March! Promises of warm weather!

Inspired Millinery is happy that Spring is not too far away! Hats are ready for the Women's Market at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis at the end of this month! The photo shows a hat made of sinamay straw that I've hand dyed and hand blocked. It is decorated with more sinamay and faux pearls. The hat fits an "average" head size - about 22.5 inches. There is an adjustable head size band in the crown for a perfect fit.

Little Girls' Hats

Inspired Millinery is inspired by Easter egg colors! Pretty colored hats for little girls are now being made. The yummy colors help reinforce that Spring is truly on its way!

Inspired Millinery Announcement

Inspired Millinery is pleased to announce being accepted as an artist (millinery, of course!) in the Women's Market to be held the last Saturday in March at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis. www.eiteljorg.org.

Skull print felt fedora

Inspired Millinery is happy to report that Nephew loved his skull print felt fedora! 

Inspired Skull Fedora

Inspired Millinery has 10 inches of snow outside, a cat on her lap and a skull print fedora underway. The fedora was a special request by her college age nephew. It's going to be fun for him to wear - and that's the point of millinery/hats - for most purposes hats should be fun to wear.

Can't wait for spring!

I, Inspired Millinery, am inspired by the wonderful colors I'm working with. I think my Spring/Summer line is my favorite!

Inspired Aretha

Talk about Inspired Millinery! Wasn't Aretha's hat amazing? 

hats @ inspired millinery

Inspired Millinery had to take a few unplanned days off from creating. Now she's back. I'll be letting all of you know my progress as the days go on.

skull fedora

Today Inspired Millinery received via UPS a couple of hat bodies printed with skulls to make a favorite relative a skull fedora! Why two? Because I make the crown and brim separately since I can't make my fedora crown block fit inside the brim block (different sizes). 

Spring line now has to be put aside for a while!

Wear hats!

dying sinamay

Inspired Millinery will be dying some sinamay straw today to make embellishments for a sinamay hat. The straw for the hat was dyed a few months ago, then when I blocked the hat I found that there would not be enough straw left over to make the embellishments I had in mind. 

Inspired Millinery has to start working toward a spring/summer line to show at the Eiteljorg Museum's Women's Art Market in March. Working with lightweight materials and pretty summery colors will help pass these gray winter days!

Inspired millinery

Inspired Millinery has been drawing new ideas for new hats for the Spring. 

Inspired Millinery website

Inspired Millinery met with the website guy today. I hope to get some time to go in and tweak the site so it looks more like me. He'd shown me how to do-it-myself months ago, but I got busy and forgot! 

Kitty Mann is toasting his kitty feet on my lap. He's not wanting affection, he's wanting warm toes! It's cold today - a good time to be wearing a wool or fur felt hat! 

More later......