There was no real interest for steampunk hats anyway, and I eventually I moved on.īut every year or so the idea of making a fascinator hat design would come back up, usually after spending awhile on Pinterest and seeing fascinator hats come up a bunch of times. The few times I tried to make my own steampunk hat fascinators back then they came out looking more like fuzzy cups than mini-hats. But that was years ago and I still had a lot to learn. At that time especially I was really looking to try all kinds of hats and not settle on just witch and wizard hats. They really caught my eye back then because they were a whole new kind of hat design that I could play with, and because they were so cute! Since my hats are decorative anyway, and not really functional, it also made sense to experiment with fascinators. Lots of steampunk models were wearing these tiny little steamer top hats fastened on with hair pins or bands. I first started seeing all kinds of fascinators a few years ago when I was dabbling with steampunk inspired top hats. People wear them when a hat would also make sense, but they are more like a fashion accessory than something functional, like something between a smaller hat and an oversized hair clip. I’m definitely not a fashion expert, but the way I understand the whole idea of fascinators is that they are supposed to be a decorative alternative to a full-sized hat.

It has all the same wrinkles and curls you would come to expect from one of my hats, but on a smaller scale. This week I will be looking into one of my newest designs, the Witch Hat Fascinator. The “Design Deep Dive” miniseries explores some of the ideas and inspirations behind my different hat designs.

Tiny witch hat decoration