Welcome to Hat Academy Maggie !

Looking forward to seeing your Sterling silver range - an area I could never venture. It is wonderful you are creating something so unique.

Feel free to share your hat or headpiece creations, join in or start a hatters discussion. Remember online help is a click away. To begin with Lessons check out our Get Started page. I am looking forward to sharing Millinery techniques, ideas and fashion news with you.

Enjoy, Elaine

Hi Maggie, so nice to see you here!!! Lovely collections!!!

Hi Maggie,

I'm staying busy, and having such fun with sinamay this summer.  I just finished my very first wedding hat, and got such a nice compliment from Reiner Waltraub, and lots of likes from our fellow milliners!!!  I'm finding these fragile sinamays with large brims, to be a nightmare to ship!!! SO expensive!!!

I also taught my first sinamay class last weekend, and we had such fun!!! I need to update my blog with photos soon.   Also, I'm about to restore a very thickly felted hat for a client, but it is SO thick, I wonder if it will reblock?   I think steam may not be enough to make it pliable.  Do you think I should saturate it in boiling water for a bit first?

Your work is spectacular. I love the elegant understated simplicity. Perfection!

hello, i really love your hats! i make hats myself but i am a beginner in courses ;ireally want to stay in contact because i love hats and i feel connected with edinbrough because my sun lives there too, graetings and hope to hear from you soon, chris