Welcome to part two our Miniature Millinery series on the Mortarboard Cap. If you look at the top of a mortarboard cap, you will see that there is a small fabric covered button attached to the center of the mortarboard. Not only does this button add a modest bit of decoration to the otherwise nondescript top, it also has functional purposes in helping secure the top to the cap AND providing a place to hang the tassel from.
We'll talk more about the tassels next time. Today, we are going to focus on making this cloth covered button.
Normally, I would use a cloth covered button blank to make my cloth covered buttons, however, I moved into a new sewing studio a little while
back and now I can't find my box of button blanks. No worries though, this just gives me an opportunity to show you how to make a cloth covered button from a standard shank or flat button.
Welcome to part three in our Miniature Millinery series on the Mortarboard Cap. We finished the cap itself in the last video, but a Mortarboard cap is simply incomplete without a tassel.
Graduation tassels date back to the 14th century and were used by European universities to represent differe...
Follow along in this episode as Cinnamon shows you how to personalize your graduation cap with a crafty tassel topper! This project can be done for a doll, or made as a scaled down replica to save as a keepsake moment of the special day.
