Victorian Outfit - The Headpiece

My Victorian Geocacher would not have been complete without something to wear in the hair. I was in the fabric store looking for something else when I came across the birdcage veil material in black! It had been at least a year since I had seen any, so I snatched some up! That was the start of the inspiration that would become my little Victorian hat.

I bought a packet of hair clips from the dollar store. They are flower shaped with a large frame I can sew around. I thought this would work fairly well to clip the piece to my hair. It turned out to be a little flimsy, so I will replace it eventually, but for now it works.

I stitched this to a small piece of fabric. The fabric is much easier to attach to the final piece than trying to glue or stitch the clip directly to the back.

I found some lovely red cherry blossoms at the craft store. I clipped a couple of short stems.

I wound a ribbon tightly around the bottom of the stems and stitched it in place. This would hide the cut ends, as well as provide some material to sew the stems to the feather pad below.

I glued a couple of loose blossoms to the bottom of the stem to hide the ribbon and stitching.

I gathered one side of the birdcage veil material and stitched it together.

I carefully sewed that around the underside of one half of the feather pad. I had decided to wear the piece on the right side of my head, above my ear, so I attached the cage so it would hang down over that ear and the right side of my face.

To avoid damaging the feathers further, I glued the fabric with the clip to the inside of the feather pad. I am not usually a big fan of glueing, but sometimes it is necessary!

Trying to take a picture of the back of your head is always tricky!! I think it took about 20 photos and this was the best one!