Fascinator project on simplicity.com

[ladyjanewriter]

A fascinator is one of those little hat-like thingies that's not a hat, but a bunch of things like feathers and veils on a hair-comb:

http://www.simplicity.com/index.cfm?page=section/classroom/sewprojects/headpiece/headpiece.cfm

You may need to give your e-mail addy to access it.

[scrabble]

Thanks for this, I love hair peices, but made them a diffrent way, its cool to see how else it can be done!

[lizzymahoney]

How do you make yours, scrabble?

I've clustered silk flowers and sprays of light weight beads with a few feathers. I fasten them to a comb with thread, sort of like the simplicity link ladyjanewriter gave. I've also used twill tape to secure to the comb.

My sister has to use french hair pins to secure the larger ones to a chignon.

I'd like to use netting as a veil or demi-veil, but that's a little trickier. It works to back a floral arrangement though.

I'm thinking of using a variety of hair accessories for the base. I've already done embellished elastics of many types.

One idea I've had is for Bike Week. You can find these skinny leather tubes with snaps that wrap a braid to keep it neat when riding a motorcycle. If I make one of pleather or fabric and sew in a small comb at the top, I'd have a lot more variety.

[scrabble]

sorry im very bad at explaning, but something like bellow.
I ake kinda little hat things attached to a comb.
I dont have any pictures, as ive left them at uni.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a248/rubykiss/hat.jpg