Mostly Millinery

Hurray for the new royal English bride-to-be! She's a hat wearer! 

Inspired wants to keep your head toasty and warm!

Time to start thinking about something to keep the top of your head warm!  Inspired will be listing some hats guaranteed to do just that! www.etsy.com/shop/inspiredhats.

Mostly Millinery Good News

It's Happy Dance time! Inspired just received notice that she's been accepted to participate in the Indiana Artisan Art Fair in April! It's a 3 day event to be held at the State Fairgrounds. She's  beyond excited! Only 75 artists from all over Indiana were accepted and invited!

Watch for updates over the next few months.

More Mostly Millinery

Inspired has just listed more fascinators on Etsy.com - www.etsy.com/shop/inspiredmillinery.  These are just in time for holiday wear and in colors guaranteed to go with your most casual or dressy outfits.

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Inspired has just finished listing some goodies on Etsy.com. 

There are adorable embellished ball caps for both women and little girls. As well, there are some traditional cloche hats for women and little girls. Inspired's favorite is the milk chocolate velour and silk cloche.

Fascinators (a little something for the top of your head) are available in a variety of autumn/winter colors. These are easy to wear since they are on a comfortable head band. These would make great gifts for those important gals in your life!

More gift items are the ribbon brooches made of colors guaranteed to brighten your day. 

All of these are hand made and available on www.etsy.com/shop/inspiredmillinery or www.mostlymillinery.com.

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Inspired has been watching vintage movies lately to get inspiration from the great hats worn decades ago!

Inspired hats from Mostly Millinery

FINALLY got around to blocking two felts today. One a red felt for a girly-girl winter hat for a fashionable young lady; the other a print velour in cream and muted burgundy made on an altered hat block. Good to be back at creating again!

autumn hats

The cooler temperatures today remind Inspired that it is time to start working on the fall/winter line! Don't forget to check out the purple velour cloche trimmed in red cherries that Inspired has donated to WFYI, channel 20.1, Indianapolis.

Mostly Millinery

Mostly Millinery will be at the ArtFest in downtown Columbus, Indiana on Saturday. There will be casual hats for women and little girls, as well as some new corsages.

Stop by and say hello!

Columbus Farmers' Market

Tomorrow, Saturday, Inspired will be at the Columbus, Indiana Farmers' Market selling her casual embellished ball caps for women and little girls as well as a few charming straw hats for little girls.

This market is really busy, full of many vendors and music. Definitely worth a stop.

Mostly Millinery and WFYI auction

Mostly has donated one of her creations to WFYI for its September fund raiser auction. The auction will be on line, so watch for it at WFYI.org.

The hat is a velour cloche, hand blocked, with an adjustable drawstring head size band which will fit an average 22.5 head size. The purple cloche is trimmed in gold fabric, green and gold ribbon, red cherries, and green velour leaves.

Mostly Millinery to be in ArtFest 2010

I just found out that I've been juried in to ArtFest 2010 on August 28. The location is Washington Street downtown Columbus! Also look for me through August 7 at the Farmer's Market in Columbus. The location is between 6th and 7th streets west of Washington

Come see me!

Inspired on Etsy.com

Inspired Millinery just listed some crown and brim blocks on Etsy.com. Either search for "inspiredhats" or "millinery hat blocks" and check it out!

Inspired spends two weeks in millinery at Penland!

Inspired just got back from two amazing weeks doing nothing but learning more about millinery craft at Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina! Wayne Wichner from California was the instructor and he was the absolute best ever! Inspired has taken many classes from many instructors, but learned more from Wayne than anyone in the past.

Inspired is full of new ideas and boxes full of new materials; watch for more posts!

Hats on Display in Museum

Nine of Inspired's millinery creations are now on display at the Johnson County Museum of History, 135 North Main in Franklin. They can be found in the Collector's Closets in the front of the museum.

Inspired dyed today

Just finished dying two straw hat bodies. One, supposed to be a light brown minkish color, turned out to be a dark grape! The other, supposed to be sage green, came out a dark green! Still fun to do even with the randomness of the whole process!

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Inspired just received her prize materials for being a runner-up in the JudithM wool felt contest. So many pretties to use in creating new millinery!

Thanks to milliners

Inspired wants to thank all the milliners out there who have posted the winners of the JudithM contest, including myself!

Millinery in commercials

In the last two days, Inspired has seen two commercials with hats being worn by the women in them. Yesterday it was a Toyota commercial with two women wearing styles similar to those of the 1940s. Today it was a Subway restaurant commercial with a woman wearing a red cloche trimmed in black.

This is certainly encouraging to those of us who love hats!

Inspired mIllinery runner-up in hat competition

Mostly Millinery (aka Inspired) recently received notice that a hat she had made had won runner-up in the pattern division of a competition using felt fabric. The competition was sponsored by a millinery supply store (www.judithm.com) along with a manufacturer of felt fabric.

Her hat entry was inspired by an illustration on a sewing pattern envelope from the 1940s. The hat was sewn entirely by hand using felt fabric, was decorated with top stitching and beads, and lined in silk. 

See www.mostlymillinery.com for more hats.

1940s felt hat

Inspired totally hand created this hat from felt. The girl is a professional model and nothing is known about her. 

Mostly Hats by Mostly MIllinery

Inspired is please to report that the Women's Market at the Eiteljorg museum in Indianapolis went well. Several of my hats found new homes and will now be loved! Inspired creates the hats that go to homes where they are loved!

Also found a home for a sweet little girl hat. A doting grandmother bought it for her adorable granddaughter. 

Hats, of course!

Inspired just finished viewing all episodes of "The House of Elliot". That period had such incredible fashions. And the hats! Amazing! Close-up camera views showed the detail and handwork involved in the hats. Hats to sigh for!

Mostly Millinery at the Eiteljorg Women's Market

Mostly Millinery will be at the Eiteljorg Women's Market the last Saturday of this month. In the poster, MM's hat is in the left photo.

Silky Ribbon Embellishments

Inspired is busy making pretty embellishments out of silky ribbon. Such pretty colors to work with on a winter day! The embellishments can be worn as a corsage or used as an embellishment on a hat.

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Inspired has been blocking hats for summer and spring. Messy work, but fun! After the straw bodies are dry, then comes the work of stabilizing with wire and head size bands. But after that: the real fun of embellishment happens!

Inspired accepted to Eiteljorg Women's Market

Inspired received news yesterday that she had been accepted for the Eiteljorg Museum's Women's Market in March! One of her millinery creations will be used in advertising for the show!

That's done!

Inspired has spent the better part of the last 4 weeks working on two hats made of flat felt for a contest co-sponsored by Judith M millinery supplier. The deadline for entry was today. The first hat was done about 2 weeks ago. The second hat was finished just under the entry deadline! What a nail-biting couple of weeks! It's going to be exciting to see what milliners have come up with for the contest. Hope that Judith posts lots of entry photos!

Now...on to making hats for Spring. Really looking forward to making some of the ideas I have for hats for young ladies!

Awesome hats

Reactions to custom hats never fails to amaze: Inspired wanted to look spiffy for a meeting this morning and wore a beret made a while back. On the way to the meeting,  made a stop at the bank and the gals loved the hat. Then on the way back from the meeting, Inspired grabbed a coffee at a drive-through and the youngish (probably late college) guy at the window said "awesome hat"! That's not the first time a college age male has commented favorably on my hats. That's intriguing since a female in the same age range as the guys wouldn't be caught dead wearing a nice hat. Maybe a ball cap, or if the weather insists on headwear, a ski type of cap.

hats

Hat production has slowed down! Have been working on a couple of special projects. Hope to get back on track this weekend!