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Are you a hat lover, and would you like to learn how to make your own hat? This one-day course will enable you to create your own fabulous fascinator hat and leave with the skills to carry on creating more. You’ll learn how to make a fascinator base, manipulate sinamay straw, use wire, work with veiling and learn traditional millinery stitches.

The class will take place in Elena's cozy studio in East London. The class will begin with a short introduction to hat making, different hat styles, trimmings, and materials. Then you will learn how to make the base of a hat using a traditional hat block, and how to wire and trim the edges.
This class will resume with learning the different techniques of trimming and decorating, including sinamay straw bias strip, making pleated fan decor, working with veiling, securing a hat on a head with an elastic.

By the end of the session you will gain invaluable millinery skills and you'll leave with a beautiful finished hat that you made yourself. All materials are included, so there's no need to bring anything. The workshop will last up to 3 hours.

Bev Smart

Create a Fascinator Hat With a Designer

A ‘Percher Hat’ is a delightful hat which is small enough to simply ‘perch’ on the edge of the head. This is the typical style of hat which you’ll find in the Sahar Millinery collections. Often, percher hats look quite vintage - akin to the pillbox hats of the 50s or structured beret hats of the 40s. However, depending on how you trim / style your hat - it could also look completely contemporary.

There is a variety of blocks (ie shapes) available (pillbox, button, beret etc). If you like the idea of doing the felt class, but would rather block a ‘full’ hat, there is also the option of making a cloche (ie 1920s shape) or trilby hat.

As you book, Sahar will ask you what shape you’d like to make as the blocks are available on a first come first served basis (typically one hat shape per person). She will also provide you with a colour chart so you can order the felt colour you’d like to use.

At the end of the class, each participant will have one new hat to take away with them, and gained an insight into the world of millinery - it’s materials, techniques, and how trimmings can drastically alter the look and feel of a hat.

This class is suitable for all levels. Basic sewing knowledge is helpful but not essential.

Vintage Felt Hat Making Workshop

Zoe Bryant

Learn to knit a hat in the round. This 2 week class will cover knitting in the round on double pointed needles, reading a pattern and decreases. Learning to knit in the round is an essential skill for any knitter to have under their belt. Just think of all the things that can be made in the round, without having to sew up any bulky or fiddly seams! This class is perfect for beginners who are confident with casting on and knitting and purling stitches. In the first week we will learn the basics of following a pattern, cast on in the round on double pointed needles, and work the ribbed brim. In the second week we will work the decreases for the top and finish the hat off, as well as troubleshoot any questions that have come up.

Nichola Luu

Learn To Knit A Hat

Learn all about the art and skill that goes into making every hat. Express your creative side and begin learning all about the art of hat making because there’s a whole world of fashionable hats waiting to be discovered.

Top 10 Best Hat Making classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK 

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Top 10 Best Hat Making classes, courses, learnings kits and gifts in the UK

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