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  1. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Can you use a Stitching Awl, there is a stitch awl that will work with a sewing machine needle, I purchased one on Amazon and purchased the sewing machine needles that work with it. My trouble is I have not been able to sew with the darn thing, I always put the thread through the wrong loop in...
  2. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I have thought about trying my hand at sewing a brim binding onto one of my hats, I would have to work my way through swirling the binding first and then sew it into place by hand, my wife's Singer doesn't have a guide on the sewing machine and I have tried to use the sewing machine and I can't...
  3. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Could the double sided 3M tape be a problem? Is it possible that the tape created the scalloped edges that were created while you were sewing the binding in place? The 3M tape would work when sewing leather pieces together, however the felt is soft and ribbon, the tape between the two pieces...
  4. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I think that you will be happier if you use a polyester thread for hat work. The stitching looks ok, better than I can do, but I don't do brim binding, all of my sewing is by hand. Did you swirl the ribbon that you used for your brim binding? The swirling is the trick and a challenge. I am sure...
  5. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Well I tried the weathering using the Fullers Earth and I have to tell you, that I won't be weathering any more hats using that method. I don't know about the peanut butter idea, maybe using some fractionated coconut oil on the brim and around the top and bottom edges of the hat band would work...
  7. Darrell2688

    Hats and Drinks - A Match Made in Heaven

    Thank you Captain Rob, I really appreciate your business, I am happy to see that you like your new hat, maybe I will get to make you another hat. You can contact me here or send me an email. Darrell
  8. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I don't know about this hat style, it looks like it has been bashed with a lot of tight pinches then a torch was used on the flat brim and the tight pinch areas, then given the Fuller's Earth treatment.
  9. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I added a little more weathering to the Indy fedora today, this time I covered the hat as much as I could with the Fuller's Earth, I used the gray color Fuller's Earth, maybe I should add some white or brown to the hat?
  10. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I did a little weathering on the Indiana Jones hat, it is just lightly weathered. Should I redo the work and give the hat some more or heavy weathering
  11. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Are you going to make any changes or put that hat out for sale? It looks like the bow ends are a little tattered?
  13. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I finished another Raiders hat a little over a week ago and I am thinking about giving it the weathered look using Fullers Earth. I made this hat with a turned down front brim, a slight turn up on the sides and almost flat in the back. The front crown pinch is 4 5/8" high the back of the crown...
  14. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I say go for it, see what you can do. I had an old beaten up chocolate brown fedora that was in pretty bad shape. I posted it for sale and it sold in 5 days and I contacted the buyer a month after the sale and ask him if he was happy with the hat, he told me that it was his favorite hat that he...
  15. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    The information that I found about the Rit dye was located on the Internet and the instructions suggested using a cup of salt in the Rit dye mixture for rayon and for cotton you use vinegar, so I would have to use a little on each since the ribbon rayon cotton blend and keep the heat down to...
  16. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Thank you I will do a bit of reading, I didn't know that there were other ingredients needed to use the dye. I recently found out that if you are using Rit dye you have to use salt in the mixture for Rayon fabric with the water temperature of 120 degrees, close to a rolling boil for 10 minutes...
  17. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    Hi Captain Rob, I drove to Walton Ky this moring and dropped your hat off at 8:30 when the post office opened, I have already started tracking the package and you should have your new hat on the 8th. according to the tracking information that was posted, I selected notice by text message so I...
  19. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Thank you. Timelesstrims is where I have purchased all of my ribbon and the ribbon that I am looking for is Brown 3, I purchased the last few yards that she had on hand. It is a dark brown almost a black, she use to have a brown that she had labeled as F, but she sold out of that too. My next...
  20. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I checked out WalshDesigns3D on Etsy and from what I can see , this Etsy shop should do great on sales, I looked at a hat block that is offered for sale the shape makes me think of the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom fedora shape with the shipping cost, I am guessing that the total would be around...
  21. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    I just ordered 2 bottles of Jacquard Procion Fiber Reactive powder dye, 1 is chocolate brown and the other jet black, I will use the dyes on some white grosgrain ribbon, I just have to figure out a proper mix of the 2 to get the color that I want. I tried to find the dye at a local store, but...
  22. Darrell2688

    Hat making?? Learning Millinery..

    Has anyone ever tried to dye Grosgrain Ribbon rayon cotton blend? I have been checking out the idea of dyeing the ribbon and the best way that I have found so far is to use fibre reactive dye, and the combination that might work would be brown dye with a touch of black dye, this might be a...
  23. Darrell2688

    Busted Hat Company

    I made my first hat blocks using 2 x 8, I cut the layers in an oval shape making a guess about what the block should look like after I finished it. I ran into a problem, the wood wasn't smooth enough so I had to apply a couple coats of autobody filler and then sand. Looking back on that Idea and...

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