Birthday Crown

After seeing the cute crown that my friend made for her son for his birthday, I decided to make a felt birthday crown for Miss A for her birthday...and then I got real and realized it wasn't going to be done by her birthday! I planned to design, cut, and sew the whole thing myself but that was until my dear husband somehow got involved with the project. I became more of the project manager/designer than the actual sewer. But I DID sew the elastic on the back of the crown at least. E and those dang Home Ec classes he took in middle school!

E and I both taught ourselves how to embroider by watching videos on the internet while we were working on the crown. I taught myself the basic stitch and E taught himself the chain stitch and then volunteered to stitch the A on her crown.

I chose the shapes I wanted for the crown and found templates online and printed them out. Then E cut them out of the felt and hand sewed them on...yes, like I said...E did most of the work! He totally hijacked my project! (But he did a wonderful job!)
He also did the embroidery around the heart and used it to put the whole crown together.
I am so glad we didn't rush to get it done for her birthday because she has pretty much REFUSED to wear it since it was done! That's a 2 year old though, right?
The tutorial I used for the crown came from Frontier Dreams.

Without further adieu...here are photos of the crown...