Downton Abbey Inspired Vintage Hunt Hat

We don’t do much “riding to the hunt” around here at Carolyn’s Canvas but the Downton Abbey Inspired Vest, that was inspired by Lady Cora Crawley’s gorgeous white riding coat with black embroideries on the popular TV series, just had to have a matching hat.

There was a nice white, felt hat from a hat making phase, plus trims and extra lace motifs from the vest that could be used so why not? [I think the hat itself had cost $9-10. Using coupons for the trims, the total was about $14-17 for everything including the hat].

And-maybe I could get my sister, Shirley, to use her expertise and put the hat together. It didn’t take much convincing to get her to help. So off the vest, the hat with all the paraphernalia to finish the hat and I went to her house for the hat making session and for photos of our Downton Abbey Inspired Vintage Hunt Hat.

What I thought would only take a few minutes to put the hat together stretched out into a couple of hours. I forgot how Shirley finesses things until they are exactly as she wants.

Materials:

Vintage hat from a thrift store
Lace motif appliques
Feathers, trims (optional)

Instructions:

Hot glue lace appliques to hat.
Hot glue feathers, trims as you fancy.

How We Did It:

Shirley tried a white lace:

that didn’t suit.

After trying all the black trims, a white feather piece, wide hat band, narrow hat band she decided to use the lace cut out appliques left from the vest

with a narrow band of trim and the black silk rose. When her final decisions were made she hot glued everything in place-just in case we do go “riding to the hunt”.

Maybe we’ll pull this out and wear it on Derby Day. It actually is as current today as it would have been in the 20’s. Cruising through hats online, I found styles from $25 to over $300 and I know I am partial but Shirley’s hat looks as good as any I saw and better than most.

At any rate, we had a great time, as we always do, creating the hat with its matching vest. They are both one of a kind.

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Carolyn Wainscott

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Carolyn Wainscott

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I am a 75 year old widow of 3 years after 55 years of marriage whose main focus in life has been my family and homemaking. I love designing, creating, and re-purposing. I was very involved with my children and their activities, then my grandchildren, and now with my great, grandchildren. My first love in crafting is in textiles, mainly quilting. The first quilt I designed was for my grandson over 30 years ago and that pattern will soon be available online. I am loving the internet world where I can market my designs, publish tutorials and talk with crafters all over the world from my own little corner of the world even though never having a lesson on the computer or internet networking I do have to call on my grandchildren at times for help. They still think I rode in on a dinosaur but that's ok, I'm having a great time. I have enjoyed a great deal being able to share my love of crafting on FaveCrafts and FaveQuilts.

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Downton Abbey Inspired Vintage Hunt Hat