Child's crown tutorial

Today is a twofur! Since I had my felt out to finish up the Valentine's wreath this morning, I thought I'd go ahead and finish the crowns for the pigs and then I can pack up the felt and fleece. I don't think I'll do any more projects with them before I move. So I made these little crowns for the pigs, and then I had this stiff interfacing and yellow fleece staring back at me, and I thought, what the heck! I'll go ahead and make the boys some crowns. And I'm going to try to do a tutorial. Let me know if it makes any sense. (Oh, and can you see the corner of one of the place mats sticking up there in the back of the picture?)

So first I cut a zig zag pattern out of the heavy interfacing. (Mine is really stiff, it will stand on its own easily.) I did mine free hand, but it would probably be more even and uniform if you drew it out first.

Then I cut a piece of yellow fleece that would cover the crown. This is folded over, you need a front and back, so make sure that you have 2 pieces of fleece to one crown.

After that, I just set it all there together, and carefully cut about an eighth of an inch or so outside of the crown. I was planning on having my seam show, so I didn't need a large seam allowance. If you wanted to turn yours inside out so that there is no seam showing, then you'll need more. But that's just an extra step.

I wanted the crowns to be adjustable, so I sewed a strip of velcro onto either ends of the crown. Make sure that you have it on one end of side A, and the other end of side B!

After that, I sewed along the top and sides of the crown, about an eighth of an inch away from the edge.

Then I stuffed the interfacing into the cover. You have to work it a little bit to make sure that everything is flat.

After that, you sew the bottom edge together, same as you did the top, and then you're done! Easy peasy lemon squeezy as my son would say.