"We love using sinamay at Embellish Atelier - its light, sculptural and comes in a great range of colours suitable for hats, fascinators and trims."

Making a sinamay base is a great way to learn a number of fundamental techniques for blocking, hand stitching and couture millinery processes. Designed for those beginning the millinery journey, this course will teach these techniques. You will walk a way with a fabulous sample that you can actually use as a base for your next beautiful creation. 

In this module, Catherine introduces a variety of blocks, equipment and millinery materials suitable for Blocking a hat or headpiece. 

Materials for this class are available from Hatters Millinery Supplies. 

In this module Catherine teaches a variety of millinery techniques using Sinamay. By completing this module you will have a finished Sinamay base that you can use for creating fascinators and headpieces.

In this module Catherine covers the following steps:

In this module Catherine guides you through some fundamental stitch techniques and blocking techniques. She also gives you a few helpful hints and tips to help overcome some of the typical challenges that you might encounter working with Sinamay. The techniques demonstrated in this module give you a great sample of processes. You will gain knowledge and insights to follow for blocking other millinery shapes, crowns, and brims.

The modules covers the following: