Stacey Felton
Hi! I am Stacey Felton, the owner and designer at Felton Hat Co.
I started Felton Hat Co. after developing a hobby (trying hard not to call it an addiction, but it’s questionable 🤔) for designing and building custom hats. I have been “crafty” most of my life but after I went to my first Hat Bar, I was hooked on making hats! Fast forward to the creation of Felton Hat Co. and I was off booking events and sourcing materials. From cowboy hats and rancher hats to pork pie hats, fedoras, and a variety of straw hats for both men and women; I started sourcing hats and accessories from a variety of suppliers. With a friend I brought on for a short time, we started booking Hat Bars at breweries and wineries all over Southwest Florida, as we continued to source new hats and materials. It was fun and very rewarding, but as the Hat Bar grew bigger and bigger, we remembered we are almost 40 and Florida gets unholy levels of hot to haul that much around 🥵.
We started transitioning our public events to private in-house events and larger corporate events. I began focusing more on new ways to further my design skillset and build my hat making tool kit. I also set up what I coined my “Hat Lab” – my work area for designing, experimenting with, and building hats. I’m willing to try just about anything you dream up on a hat, so sometimes there’s a practice hat and sometimes the hat just burns up and there’s no hat! 😄
Over the those last two years, every dollar Felton Hat Co. made went into sourcing more hats and their embellishments to find our best selling hats and favorite accessories to embellish them with. I searched for and experimented with thousands of different fabrics, feathers, charms, hat pins, brooches, vintage matchbooks, playing cards, dried and faux flowers, and other natural elements like porcupine quills, arrow heads, gemstones, and the list goes on (maybe too long, hence my unnecessarily large collection of tassels 😂). What I’m getting at is that our collection is robust and I can’t wait to design a hat for you!
I’m married to the world’s most helpful husband, Dustin, who puts up with my overactive imagination and is always there to save the day when I’ve overcommitted my time. I am also a mom to two amazing, adorable, hilarious little boys, Grayson (6) and Ryder (4). Boy mom life is the life! A wild one at that!
I am looking forward to growing my business and making the most unique hats! Thank you for all the love and support! Let’s make a hat together soon!