Guess What I made a Straw Bonnet

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COSTUME COMMITTEE SCHEDULE OF SPECIAL PROJECTS AND SEWING CIRCLE EVENTS

SPECIAL PROJECTS: FALL- 2021. KNITTED OR CROCHET WEARABLES OR ACCESSORY SPRING-2022 SUN BONNET FALL-2022. DRAWERS SPRING-2023 CHEMISE FALL-2023 HOOP- CAGED OR COVERED

SEWING CIRCLE: FALL-2021 SUN BONNET On Friday SPRING-2022 DRAWERS FALL-2022 CHEMISE SPRING-2023 HOOPS- CAGED OR COVERED

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Guess What! I made a Straw bonnet!

How to make a period victorian straw bonnet with a hot glue gun and or totally done by hand sewing!!!

By Sharleen West

Supplies

1 ready made straw sun hat from craft store 1 foam head from craft store 1 /2 yard of light weight netting with dotting from fabric store, white or ecru your choice 5 inch wide grosgrain or satin face ribbon in the colors of your choice if using two or three colors purchase at least 9 feet. Binding: can match the color of the straw bonnet or 2in wide color of ribbon of your base color of your choice for your neck curtain of your bonnet. 36’’ of cotton crochet yarn Marking pen Thread, white or ecru, color of ribbon choices Hot glue gun if using that technique Glue sticks Warm water in kitchen sink Sharp sewing needles Scissors Belt loop turner or a knitting or darning needle for threading yarn 12 long quilting straight pins or ‘T’ pins Tape measure Masking Tape Template for period shape included in this instruction package Wire cutters or florist wire cutters/ scissors 1 yd of trim to cover neck curtain if glueing your bonnet Silk flowers/ feathers/ any items that would be acceptable which would be used in period millinery. Research or view the accompanying photos to give you ideas for your bonnet.

NOTE:

Some of the photos are of the sewing method of this Bonnet; use the same procedure For the glue gun method.

Step 1. Cut out template.

Step 2. Lay straw hat out flat. Place the corrected template on the hat and pin it on with straight pins. Make sure the template is against the curve of the brim of the straw at and the curved cut out is placed on braid rows from the bottom of the crown where the brim begins to form. Mark with the marking pen a dot where the template and the beginning of the row where the straw braid row stops (see photo 2 a)

2 a.

Step 3. Trace with the marking pen the template around the straw hat. ( see photo 2 a & b

2 b

Step 4. Cut off the excess straw brim of the hat. ( see photo 4 a) 4 a

Step 5. Using masking tape, tape all of the cut raw edges. (Photo 6a)

Step 6. Fill Kitchen sink with warm water, place hat in water soak for 30 minutes. (See photo. 6 a)

Step 7. After 30 minutes place on a towel and gently wipe excess water off hat, place on Styrofoam head and secure with long quilting pins or with T pins. ( see photo 7 a)

Step 8. Let Dry for 24- 48 hours 48 is better. To check the forming of the the bonnet. Take out Pins around the cheek area and if the straw is forming in the bonnet shape then it is dry Enough to proceed. ( see photo 7 a)

Step 9a. While bonnet is drying you can proceed to gathering up the netting or lining of the Bonnet. This and the neck curtain will be the only items of actual sewing if you are Proceeding with the glue gun method making the bonnet. Some trims in fabric stores Are already pleated so you can just glue it on and not have to use needle and thread.

(1) Open out the netting, flat. You can use your sewing machine or you can use needle and thread. Turn under one 3 inch on each cut edge. Making only a 2 inch hem ( see photos 9 a,b,c). Then repeat with the other end of netting. 9a

9 b

9c

Step 10, fold over netting, meeting each sewn folded raw edge, pin one end about ½ in shy of the other. ( as shown in photos 10a above, sewn in 10b). ( You can glue this with fabric glue or with heat bond no sew hem tape) After you sew the two fold together, then either hand gather with needle and thread or do a machine gathering stitch on sewing machine. This gathering stitch will be used to adjust and add fullness to the netting lining around the brim of the bonnet and will surround the face. 10b

Step 11. The netting now is sewn together, now sew a ¼ in casing at the opposite folded over edge. This will be the draw string sizing lining. Pull through cotton string using a belt loop turner or run a small safety pin with string attached or use a yarn bob to thread sting though. See photo 11 a,11b

11 a

11b

Step 12. Pull string through the sizing casing. See photo 12a and pull tight. This will be inserted in the straw bonnet.

12 a.

12. b

Step 13. Insert the netting in the bonnet. (IF YOU ARE HAND SEWING THIS BONNET DO NOT INSERT THE NETTING UNTIL YOU ARE FINISHED APPLYING THE RIBBON BAND TRIM ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BONNET. THE NETTING IS THE LINING THAT HIDES ALL OF THE STITCHES OF HAND-SEWING.) Hot glue with a chop stick to keep from burning you hands, glue the ruffle gathering to the bonnet. This is also where you will sew in the lining when you finish applying the outside ribbon. (See 13 a)

13. a

Step 14 Now if you are going to hand sew the bonnet. Sew a band enclosure on the back cut edge of the bonnet or glue a band you can use grosgrain ribbon. ( see the top of photo 13 a)

After you apply the band, now you can apply the neck curtain (photo 14 a, b, c )