Easter Bonnet

Friday 30th March was the Annual Easter Hat Parade at J5 & L7's school.
The boys decorated or made their own hats, then on the Thursday I decided that I needed a new Easter Bonnet too!  So I spent a couple of hours sewing this up.

The band is not sewn on - it is pinned in place by the hand-made Suffolk Puff brooch

A nice big brim to shade my face

The reverse side - unfortunately the join in the brim fabric is more obvious than I would like (my fabric wasn't large enough to cut it in one piece.

I think I will move from iron on interfacing to a heavy, non-woven, sew-in.  It is really hard to get the curves as nice as I would like once the interfacing is ironed on because all the 'give' is lost.  I'm also going to move away from such large contrasts on the two sides, at least on the large brim versions where it is so obvious, and try for different, but complementary, fabrics.

And below are the creative efforts of my two sons, L7 & J5.  I thought they looked pretty cool.  I believe in allowing them to direct their own designs - I just lend a practical hand where asked.

L7 in his 'Easter Rocks' hat.  Using the magic tape to make it look like the words were written directly on the hat was his idea (after I stopped him just in time from writing on it in felt tip!).

J5 Designed & made this himself - I just handed him the bits of sticky tape.