If you have a wool hat, it's incredibly easy to steam it to the shape you
want! You need to find something that will be a good shape for a block,
like a flower pot. Make sure it's a good size to match your head size.
Remove all the addition hat stuff from inside the felt, like the hat band
and such. Then using you kettle, steam the inside of the felt and then pull
it down over the block. Keep trying until you get the desired shape. the
felt will move around quite a bit!
Have fun!
Kelly in Nova Scotia
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wanda Pease" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "H-Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Blocking a Wool Felt Hat
I'm going to try and make a Tudor Style tall hat with the pleated crown.
I
went to the local GoodWill and they had a hat that fitted perfectly of
100%
wool felt. Problem is that it is a domed crown rather than square. Is
there
a way to steam that crown and get it fairly fat?
I intend to play with an thick interlining that I have to get the brim
shape, then I'll cut the actual hat brim.
Does this sound reasonable, or does it sound like it will be more work
than
simply creating the under-structure out the interfacing and paper and
going
from there?
Wanda Pease/Regina Romsey
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be attributed to simple social ineptness
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