For this weekend's event I decided that I "had to have" a poke bonnet. Mostly because I love the look, but also because the past two years I've come home rather sunburned, even though I'd liberally applied the sunscreen. A bonnet would be the perfect solution! Ben attempted to find one ready for purchase, so sweet of him, but had no luck. So I quickly looked up how to make one, thank you YouTube! I found these great instructions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgwWJHzPpr8
The hat came from Goodwill, I think it was $2 or so...
Following the directions from the video I cut the hat where I wanted it, about 2/3 down. Originally I angled the sides out, but I didn't like that, so I ended up rounding the corners.
Testing out the look, I think we're off to a good start! I'm lining the hat with left over musslin I have, and I'll use my favorite blue linen for the back. It's perfect because I found a pair of shoes at Ross almost the exact same shade and my pocket is made of the same fabric, matchy matchy!
I sewed two straight lines of stiches for gathering, one across the bottom and one further up, and then I pulled them in. Sewing the fabric to the hat was ALOT easier than I imagined, yipee!!!!
Due to the fact that it was now after midnight the night before the event, Ben assisted me in cheating, we hot-glued biased tape to the rim.
I apologize for the lack of pictures on sewing the poke section of the poke bonnet, it was late and I was in quite a rush. In fact, all of the white trim ribbon was sewed on in the car while we drove (quite typical for us, it's not an event if we're not rushing to finish a project). My favorite quote from our last event: David calls to ask us a question, we inform him we're at JoAnn's. He replies, "What on Earth are you buying at the fabric store at 9pm that you expect to possibly have sewn by 10am tomorrow!?!?!?!" We defended ourselves that it was just some quick easy trim. This hat project was not quite so quick, but we did it!
Front:
Side/Back:
It worked, I did not get burned this year!
