Next week is the royal wedding which gives everyone more of an excuse to drink tea and eat scones.  So need to finalize a design for a fascinator.

The problem with fascinators is that there are too many options for materials and not having the experience to know what works.

Materials:

• hair clip
• tulle
• netting
• feathers with glitter
• cardstock
• gem stickers
• adhesive foam
• fabirc
• dog charm
• adhesive dots
• felt

The main focus is the crown with the dog charm in the middle (after some unscientific polling, a conclusion was reached that a fascinator is improved with the presence of a dog charm…).

Zo wanted to assist.

Considering the hair clip can be put in the hair in different angles, wanted the dog to be rotatable.  So went with a removable inlay with the dog glued to it.

The inlay is a mini cushion.  3 inch diameter top with 2 inch sides.

Cut the bottom corners to give it a gusset.

Stuffed it with fabric scraps.

The gusset wasn’t necessary.  Also, it could be a square, the half circle really didn’t improve the final look.

Cut out the crown.  3 inch base and 3 inch high triangles.

Cut it out and scored the middle to fold over.

It turned out way too tall.  Also gluing the 2 sides of cardstock made it too thick and stiff to form into a circle cleanly.

Glued felt to a hair clip and topped with feathers tipped with glitter and a tulle pom.

Cut a trapezoid piece of netting and cut off the corners.

Sewed all side but the bottom so the strings can be pulled and gathered.

It looks a bit like a birdcage veil.

Glued the netting and the crown on top of the tulle pom.

It is way too clunky.  On a human head, the crown sticks out too far.  And the netting wasn’t working.

Made another in blue without the birdcage netting and a smaller crown in adhesive foam instead of cardstock. (1.75 inch height).  Applied some rhinestone and pearl stickers.

Coco looks cute in it.

Zo thinks it could have been better.  The crown was glued onto the hair clip so that the seam is towards the front – next time it should be in the back.

Zo looks kinda vintage?