A couple of weeks ago I did a hat class in a small town near me, Spencerville. It is a great little gallery with some workshop space. https://www.spencerstreetmuse.ca/

I had 4 students including the owner. These are the samples I brought to show some possibilities. Sorry for the bad picture, I had to cut it out of one of the other pictures.  The 3 ladies all picked the same style of hat, the black and blue one in the middle.

And the gentleman wanted a wizard’s hat for part of a costume. Nothing too tall so we were good for space and time.

You know the drill first you lay out all the wool.

Then you wet it and rub it with Tupperware juice jug lids on top of the bubble wrap. Two of them are getting great patterns in their bubbles. You can see the shape of the wizard hat bottom right.

Then there is the rolling.

Next is the scariest part for most new people…..the cutting.

Then we moved on to more rolling and then some scrunching and a little tossing to get them down to the right size. I do have some basic hat blocks but I make people try them on to see if they fit like they want them to. Then we can fine-tune them before the final shaping. At this point, the gentleman had to leave to make it to work on time so I gave him some information and told him to contact me if he needed help. So no more pictures of his hat.

And the finished hats, they all turned out really well. And one of the ladies bout the black and blue sample hat so I will have to make another.

Sorry for the sort of quick post with not much info but our Guild Sale and Exhibition is this weekend and I am in charge( silly people letting that happen). We will be on our second and last day when you read this.