Cortes Marketplace
Island Crafts - Fibre Art
250-935-0199
rickeymelissagmail.com
A lifetime of passion for beautiful fabrics, sewing and design culminate to offer you Melissa’s Fabulous Hats. Melissa has been creating beautiful hats for the past year, and offering them to the local Cortes market and beyond. “My goal is to create gorgeous hats that will be a loved and well used item by the wearer. My goal is to make hats that are beautiful and practical at the same time.”
Inspired by many eras and cultures, Melissa creates hats of diverse styles, from the traditional newsboy, to more urban looks, and hooded creations embellished with textiles and beads from other lands. Many of the fabrics she uses are ‘upcycled’ or ‘repurposed’, giving new life to clothing that is no longer being worn. She also makes use of small pieces that are leftover from the manufacturing processes of others. “Often there is only a small piece of exquisite fabric leftover from what others make, and it’s just enough to make one hat – it makes that hat one-of-a-kind.”
There is always something new flying off the machine, ready to find its home. Melissa welcomes inquiries, commissions and custom orders, and you can visit her in her studio, by appointment, to arrange for a custom made hat. She can be reached at 935-0199.
rickeymelissagmail.com
A lifetime of passion for beautiful fabrics, sewing and design culminate to offer you Melissa’s Fabulous Hats. Melissa has been creating beautiful hats for the past year, and offering them to the local Cortes market and beyond. “My goal is to create gorgeous hats that will be a loved and well used item by the wearer. My goal is to make hats that are beautiful and practical at the same time.”
Inspired by many eras and cultures, Melissa creates hats of diverse styles, from the traditional newsboy, to more urban looks, and hooded creations embellished with textiles and beads from other lands. Many of the fabrics she uses are ‘upcycled’ or ‘repurposed’, giving new life to clothing that is no longer being worn. She also makes use of small pieces that are leftover from the manufacturing processes of others. “Often there is only a small piece of exquisite fabric leftover from what others make, and it’s just enough to make one hat – it makes that hat one-of-a-kind.”
There is always something new flying off the machine, ready to find its home. Melissa welcomes inquiries, commissions and custom orders, and you can visit her in her studio, by appointment, to arrange for a custom made hat. She can be reached at 935-0199.
Melissa welcomes custom orders.