| I pleated a length of heavy purple satin into a hatband to do up this old hat (and covered the back join with another band of the same) | ||
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| Then while I got on with another part of the job, I plonked the band down on the wig block (back to front as it happened! ) to put it out of the way: | ||
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| And I thought, ooh, I could put a bit of net on that! | ||
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| And then I thought, I wonder what it looks like with the top filled in with satin? | ||
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| I did it by making a ring out of a strip of plastic (cut from a cellophane box and stuck together with insulating tape) and stapling the satin to it. I did it with the ring on the wig block as much as possible, to help keep it in shape, and used clothes pegs to hold down the bits I wasn't working on. | ||
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