Hi Everyone! Welcome to another installment of the Miniature Millinery series. This course is called Silly Hats! It's inspired by the creative hats on display at the St Catherines Day parade each fall.
Shari Fuller will be demonstrating a truly unique technique to turn plastic shopping bags into custom fabric! Seriously, you can make fabric out of plastic! She will continue to memorize us all with a sew-along for the Keepers Dolly Duds Victorian Caroler's Bonnet and will share a few embellishment ideas too. I'll jump in at the end and show you my take on the silly hat too!
The series will be divided into four parts:
Let's get started with Part One! Follow along in this video as Shari shows us how to turn an ordinary plastic bag into an amazing piece of fabric! The process is fairly simple, so go gather up all those plastic shopping bags and begin upcycling it into fabric too!
The hat that Shari will be making in the next video is made using the Keepers Dolly Duds Victorian Caroler's Coat and Bonnet pattern for 18" dolls. It is also available for 16" A Girl For All Time dolls.
August 10, 2022
We always have tons of grocery bags sitting around. I can’t wait to make them into something pretty!
August 09, 2022
I’m having trouble finding the right temperature setting on my iron for correct results. It seems the bags either melt or not fuse
August 05, 2022
What temperature is the iron set on?
No plastic shopping bags in Nova Scotia, but lots of bread bags. I’ll be trying, for shoes and boots for our Canadian Maplelea dolls. American Girls footwear isn’t quite long enough.
August 03, 2022
I wish the plastic bags were not banned locally. This is so creative, I would love to try it. I think the ban is across Canada, or just about!
August 02, 2022
Didn’t know what to expect from the title but I am blown away by this concept of using grocery bags for fabric. Never would have occurred to me in a million years. This is going to be a very fun month!
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Jacquie Corrigan
August 16, 2022
No plastic bags available here in Victoria, B.C.! but this was fun to watch.