+II-29 First Bloom Hat

Intermediate Level  14"wide x 151/4" high 166 pieces.
First Bloom Hat is a sun hat with lots of flowers, daffodils, poppy, daisy, tulips and miscellaneous little flowers, with a red ribbon bow.
Woods Used: Peroba Rosa (orange/yellow), Red Heart, Yellow Heart, Holly, Basswood (hat), and Peruvian Walnut for the dark, 1/8" maple/birch dowels.
Suggested Blades:  Gold #5 for Western Red Cedar or any softwood. Pegas MG-3,  Platinum Plus #5,  Platinum #5,  TLB #5  for the hardwoods.  PLP-2/0, or TLB #2/0 to cut the interior lines (after the exterior lines are cut).
Texturing: The Mini Wheel was used to texture the hat. The basswood was so soft it was hard to keep from going too deep. If you use a harder wood a  Wonder Wheel would work great. I used the wheel to detail the leaves. Click here to see Judy's video on how to prepare the wheel for texturing and for how to use the Wonder Wheel. 

I added lots of instructions
to help make this fun hat. 
Some are printed on the
pattern and some on the
photo of the finished piece.