Millinery

I started my elective in level 2 millinery today and I’m really loving it - I’ve chosen the brief “Super Structures” so I’m looking at buildings and exaggerated proportion as inspiration. I’ve designed my hat and finished blocking the top and brim . Because I want my brim to sweep across the face at an angle it was difficult to block but I was pretty calm about it and I’m enjoying it so much . It’s really interesting and I really wish we had a chance to make more than one hat !! I am surprised about how much I got done today actually, at level 1 it took me about three days to block the whole hat and I’ve finished blocking already !! It should take longer to put it together and create the exaggerated detail though as I’ve chosen a more challenging design this year . I feel as though in level 2 you really build on your skills from level 1 and we have been introduced to sinamay as a material. Blocking a felt hat which we did last year we all began and continued with little instruction , it was good to see I could remember the skills I had learnt from last year.