Comments | labricoleuse: Cloche Block Skill-Trade Results

labricoleuse

Cloche Block Skill-Trade Results

Jan 31, 2010 10:23

Well, we're snowed in around these parts--7" is a lot of snow for the Carolina Piedmont, and it's all turning into a thick layer of ice right about now. Luckily, i have my studio for outsourced millinery work right in my house, so i've been pretty productive ( Read more... )

hats, millinery

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ladycelia January 31 2010, 22:50:34 UTC

Very pretty. With that style block is the brim portion a separate piece?

labricoleuse February 1 2010, 15:46:15 UTC

I have seen them done both ways.

This one is an all-in-one, like the ones sold by Guy Morse-Brown in the UK--IIRC Laura and i looked at his catalog specs when deliberating on the dimensions of the one she carved.

But, you can also have a cloche brim block that's separate--Morse-Brown does a set he calls "multiblocks" which are interchangeable crowns/brims that have a cloche brim option.

I have actually used this cloche block with different brim blocks as well--i have a forthcoming post on that, actually, once i finish up the hat i did that way! Hopefully i'll get to that by the weekend.