Here is a late summary of the project I was doing over this past summer:
I started off very well, as you might have seen from my first blog post - drawing out designs, creating them, etc. etc. Pretty quickly, though, I became very very behind schedule.
On one particular Saturday, I was so eager to get to the beach, I bashed out 3 hats in a couple of hours. .....Predictably, they were shit.
Like this one.
Close to the end of my estimated schedule, I was 10 hats behind - a whole week! I spent the 7th week, making all the 60's and the 70's, trying desperately hard to catch up and be on time. The next Monday, I made two more, still on schedule at 82... then on Tuesday I found out that the whole thing wasn't happening anymore.
AAAAARRRGGHH.
Admittedly, I knew from the beginning that it wasn't set in stone. In fact, it was a very offhand comment made by somebody almost a year ago; there was a very large possibility that they wouldn't take the hats, even if I made them. However, they scrapped the entire thing this year, so it wasn't a case of they saw the hats I'd produced, thought they were hideous and went with someone else.
How do I feel about it? Well at the time I was bummed, feeling like I'd wasted my summer... Thinking about it though, I hurried through some of them, and am kind of relieved they won't see the light of day. Besides, it was fun to have to make something in bulk and have a schedule to keep to!
Also, a few of them are on sale at the Hatwoman pop-up shop at the Hong Kong horse racing in Shatin, four of which have already gone! Hooray!
The whole 84 of them... somehow made 2 more than I thought... are available to see here on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.306553822775973.63858.193675597397130&type=1
For the ones that aren't being sold by Hatwoman, they are either going to be dismantled and used for parts (the ones I made that Saturday, for instance), or to be sold separately, if I can pull it off!
Am now studying for a Higher Diploma in Millinery at the Kensington and Chelsea College (previously the HNC... still the same course, but due to government funding the college have changed the title so the students don't have to pay through the nose - sweeeet). More on that later.
If you're keen on buying any of the remaining ones, let me know by contacting me on Facebook or Twitter!
Here, have another photo!
