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Enough people have asked about it that I've been giving some serious thought to offering some short single-style hat classes for the community.
These would be more basic, straightforward classes than the advanced level of instruction in my graduate class, and would probably be aimed more toward those wishing to make hats to wear in their everyday lives, rather than historical or stagewear millinery. They would be classes for students who already had basic sewing skills (hand and machine), and though advanced stitchers would produce couture results, beginners would also be welcome and would be able to produce nice, wearable hats.
Today, i spoke with some folks at a local venue who are interested in hosting such a thing, so i'm beginning to turn some wheels on this. I hope to start out by offering 2 or 3 classes in partnership with this local venue (TBA, nothing's set yet), and if they are successful, run them as long as there is demand, with a potential to add additional classes if there is interest. These would be short evening or weekend classes, offered perhaps quarterly or twice yearly. Nothing huge, i'm certainly not planning to make bank on it or anything. Really, my goal is to get more people in my community interested in hat-making and hat-wearing.
Please indulge me and help me out with my little "market research" poll. If you have friends-lists comprised of folks who might be my target student-base--DIY fashion enthusiasts, skilled home-sewing practitioners, wearable-artists, etc.--i would very much appreciate if you could send them to this poll. I want to make sure if i do this that i offer the classes that people out there want to take, not the classes i think they ought to take (if that makes sense).
[Poll #1272549]
If you've taken a short weekend or one-week hatmaking workshop, i would love to hear details on the context of the workshop (i.e., "bridal veil making at an adult ed center"), what you particularly appreciated about it and what you wished had been different. And, if you have any alternate suggestions or anything else to add, please do comment!
Thank you all SO much in advance for the feedback on this. I am very excited about potentially expanding my teaching repertoire in new ways.
Also, i wanted to post a heads-up about a (minimal) drop in price on my parasol book, Sticks In Petticoats: Parasol Manufacture for the Modern Costumer. Lulu.com sent out an email to their authors this past week concerning the restructuring of their pricing setup. The changes will shake down in such a way that prices on shorter textbooks will actually drop a few cents. The new pricing structure goes into effect October 25th, so if you've been thinking of getting a copy and you do so now, don't be shocked when the price lowers at the end of the month. (So, that's a roundabout way of saying that if you care about saving like, a DIME or whatever, wait til November to order i reckon.) :D
These would be more basic, straightforward classes than the advanced level of instruction in my graduate class, and would probably be aimed more toward those wishing to make hats to wear in their everyday lives, rather than historical or stagewear millinery. They would be classes for students who already had basic sewing skills (hand and machine), and though advanced stitchers would produce couture results, beginners would also be welcome and would be able to produce nice, wearable hats.
Today, i spoke with some folks at a local venue who are interested in hosting such a thing, so i'm beginning to turn some wheels on this. I hope to start out by offering 2 or 3 classes in partnership with this local venue (TBA, nothing's set yet), and if they are successful, run them as long as there is demand, with a potential to add additional classes if there is interest. These would be short evening or weekend classes, offered perhaps quarterly or twice yearly. Nothing huge, i'm certainly not planning to make bank on it or anything. Really, my goal is to get more people in my community interested in hat-making and hat-wearing.
Please indulge me and help me out with my little "market research" poll. If you have friends-lists comprised of folks who might be my target student-base--DIY fashion enthusiasts, skilled home-sewing practitioners, wearable-artists, etc.--i would very much appreciate if you could send them to this poll. I want to make sure if i do this that i offer the classes that people out there want to take, not the classes i think they ought to take (if that makes sense).
[Poll #1272549]
If you've taken a short weekend or one-week hatmaking workshop, i would love to hear details on the context of the workshop (i.e., "bridal veil making at an adult ed center"), what you particularly appreciated about it and what you wished had been different. And, if you have any alternate suggestions or anything else to add, please do comment!
Thank you all SO much in advance for the feedback on this. I am very excited about potentially expanding my teaching repertoire in new ways.
Also, i wanted to post a heads-up about a (minimal) drop in price on my parasol book, Sticks In Petticoats: Parasol Manufacture for the Modern Costumer. Lulu.com sent out an email to their authors this past week concerning the restructuring of their pricing setup. The changes will shake down in such a way that prices on shorter textbooks will actually drop a few cents. The new pricing structure goes into effect October 25th, so if you've been thinking of getting a copy and you do so now, don't be shocked when the price lowers at the end of the month. (So, that's a roundabout way of saying that if you care about saving like, a DIME or whatever, wait til November to order i reckon.) :D
