Good Evening, dear sister! The Ladies’ Tea this past Saturday was a blast. It was definitely a day of good food, good company, good tea and good wine! Our readers can check out the pictures on our Facebook page. They can see the reason why we have renamed the Ladies’ Tipsy Tea.
As you know, recently I had the opportunity to make a couple of Pioneer bonnets for a co-worker and her daughter. Her daughter’s school is having an educational reenactment for the last couple of weeks of school. They were encouraged to dress as the pioneers did. That is where I came in. My sewing skills were utilized to make a couple of bonnets so they could dress the part. The pattern I used is McCall’s M4547.
This pattern is fairly straight forward. You will need about 1 1/2 yds of a cotton fabric, 3/4 yd of ribbon, 3/4 yd of bias tape and a 1/2 yd of fusible webbing or buckram (I suggest buckram if you want a stiff brim). For this project, my co-worker picked a lovely country blue cotton fabric.
The pattern is very simple, only having 3 pieces. From beginning to end, the hat was very simple to make, and only took a few hours. The finally results are very cute.
The pattern did call for fusible webbing to be ironed to one of the brim pieces,and then sewing the two brim pieces together. I did as the pattern instructed, and it came out fine. I, however, prefer a brim with a little more stiffness. As I liked this pattern (I am sure I will be making more of these), I will be using buckram for the brim. I will post the rest of the pictures to the flickr photo stream, and will post a review for the full pattern once I have finished the other garments that came with the pattern. Ok, time to put my nose back to the grind stone of the corporate world.
