How to Make a Easy Feather Hat

Have you ever wondered how to make a fascinator? Making feathery, fun fascinators is actually very easy. I'grand going to prove yous two styles of DIY fascinators and give y'all the nuts to create your own amazing fascinators.

How to make a Fascinator hat with feathers, veiling, and silk flowers.

I'chiliad pretty sure it'due south impossible to exist in a bad mood if you're wearing feathers on your head. At that place's just something so playful and fun, it lifts your spirits. I knew I wanted anybody to be able to accept that experience at Mary'south High Tea birthday , so I had a ton of fun designing a choice of fascinators for the guests to wear (and keep as a party favor).

Here are a few of the designs I whipped upward one evening:

Women and children at a tea party all wearing feather fascinators.

Yay, fun fascinators for all!

Materials for making a disc shaped fascinator.

I'one thousand going to testify yous how I made two of the chapeau styles--and that volition give you the basic skills you need to riff on the concept and create your ain designs.

Basic Materials for Making a DIY Fascinator Hat:

Assorted craft feathers
patently headband
silk flowers
hot glue gun
fabric
felt
cardboard circles
Russian veiling or tulle

If y'all look back to the very primeval posts on this blog, you'll run into that information technology started out every bit a wedding blog for my old business organisation, Tradewind Tiaras. Yup, I spent 13 years as a tiara and veil designer. So I had all of these things in my arts and crafts stash already, but I didn't apply anything difficult to discover or expensive for this project.

Materials for a Disc Shaped Fascinator:

an 8" cardboard cake round
goose biots
satin material
felt
silk flowers
plain headband
glue gun

Cardboard cake round being covered with satin and felt to make a disc shaped fascinator.

Start by cutting the satin material slightly larger than the paper-thin circle (yes, I used an viii" cake round). Cut a felt circumvolve slightly smaller than the cardboard circle. I used green here so it would be easy for you lot to run across, merely on the hats for the party, I used felt that matched the color of the fabric I used to cover the cardboard.

Cardboard cake round being covered with satin and felt to make a disc shaped fascinator.

Glue the satin to the top side of the paper-thin round and secure on the underside with the hot glue gun. Then mucilage the felt circle on the lesser to cover upwards the raw edges and cruddy mess.

Collage of feathers and silk flowers being added to the top of a disc shaped fascinator.

Flip over and glue feathers to the centre, and then cover upwardly the messy bit with some silk flowers, or a brooch, or some lace... whatever you desire!

Headband being added to the underside of a disc shaped fascinator.

Glue the chapeau to the headband at a jaunty angle. Glue guns don't actually concord on to metal particularly well, so mucilage a small boosted piece of felt over the inside of the headband, effectively sandwiching the headband between felt. That will keep information technology squeamish and secure.

Little girl wearing a disc shaped fascinator with feathers and a lace flower.

Fancy, no?

Materials for a DIY fascinator on a white wooden background.

How to Brand a Plume and Flower Fascinator:

felt
artificial flowers
goose biots
craft feathers
hot glue gun
Russian netting or tulle
manifestly metal headband

Cut a circle of felt approximately four inches in bore (or whatsoever size you want, really). Glue on some feathers to the peak third or so of the circle.

Silk flowers being added to a fascinator.

Glue silk flowers tightly over the unabridged surface of the felt circumvolve. These flowers came from a silk hydrangea spray I bought on sale--I just pulled the flower petals correct off the plastic stems.

Veiling and headband being added to the underside of a fascinator.

Just as with the earlier fascinator style, glue the headband to the felt circle, and then keep information technology secure past sandwiching the headband betwixt the first circle and a second, smaller scrap of felt.

If you'd like to add together a bit of veiling, the standard material is chosen Russian netting or Russian veiling . It comes in any colour you could desire. Or you could use tulle, which y'all can go far any arts and crafts store. I used Russian netting for the hats at the party, but used upward my stock before I got a skilful production shot, and so in this photo, I used silk tulle. Just because I had information technology, and it's pretty. And now that I don't make veils whatsoever more than, what else am I going to do with it, actually? Simply the inexpensive craft tulle totally works, too. Cut a piece of whatsoever netting you're using about six"x12". Assemble at either brusk end, and hot glue to the underside of the fascinator. netting, evidently, has holes, then don't attempt to printing it downwards with your fingers, or you'll just finish upwards gluing your fingers. That's why y'all see 2 extra piddling scraps of felt on the underside in the photograph higher up: to protect my fingers as I glued down the tulle to the chapeau.

Woman wearing a fascinator with russian veiling, feathers, and silk flowers.