What a great fun event the Bridport hat festival weekend is, what is there not to love?! Lots of hats, hat themed, food, stalls, museum displays, entertainment. I particularly loved how every shop display seemed to have hats in it including the estate agents! Unfortunately I was only able to get to the Sunday events but I very much enjoyed it and hope to get back next year.
I had entered my hat in the hat competition and it was my first go at using one of my new hat blocks and covering a concaved shape. I used a trim from a vintage hat in beautiful ombre blue and based the design on the idea of a crashing wave, taking inspiration from my boyfriends parents home in the Bournemouth area. It was a tricky make and I learnt alot from doing it.
I did not win the competition but was selected as a finalist. The winner was Matthew Eluwande with his "Spiral Bean" hat, who did very interesting things with sinnamay. Below is a photo of the finalist hats taken by the BBC who did an article on the festival and a photograph of my wave hat.
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