Virginia Avery's Hats: A Heady Affair

by Virginia Avery

Hats can revitalize an old outfit or help pull together a new one. Building on the basics of the beret, visor cap, pillbox, and turban, Hats packs numerous ideas for colorful, quirky headwear into a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914881833
• ISBN13: 9780914881834
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

a great book for inspirations

This book, while a little outdated, shows great ideas, great instructions and well worth the money.

My First Hat Book...

I picked up this book as an intro to hats. I haven't made hats (other than simple polar fleece winter hats), and wanted to make some "fashion" hats. This book allowed me to use fabric, interfacings and basic sewing techniques to successfully make hats. This is not really a millinery book; it is more of a sewer's guide to hats. You can see a picture of the first hat I made from this book in the customer images section.

Pieced Hats, Soft Hats, Mad Hats

A Heady Affair will delight quilters and folks who fall in love with a fabric and aren't quite sure what to do with it. This is a descriptive, rather than prescriptive book. That is, it will tell you how to do things in general, but not how to copy a specific hat. You can copy the shape, but the rest is up to you. A pull-out sheet of basic hat pattern pieces lets you make hats, turbans, caps, hats with brims, and pillboxes. If you want a book that says how to embellish store-bought hats, this is not the one. The instructions are complete. For each hat shape, you get a list of how much fabric, lining and interfacing are required. Nothing in the book takes more than 3/4 yard. What a great way to use up bits and pieces!