DIY St. Patrick’s Day Top Hat Headband for Child and Doll Tutorial

DIY St. Patrick’s Day Top Hat Headband for Child and Doll Cricut Tutorial

Our Guest Blogger today is Jessie Sickler, you are going to enjoy this tutorial post.

These headbands are a great accessory for your little one and their doll.  Not only are they adorable for St. Patrick’s Day but you can customize them for just about any holiday or occasion.  As you work through this tutorial I suggest you work on both hats at the same time.  It’s easier to get all your work done on the step rather than going back and doing it all again to make the smaller hat. 

Felt not shown

       Supplies:

         Items with * have a link to the Craft Chameleon products

·        

 * 2 Green Satin Headbands

 * 1 Black mini felt top hat

 * 1 Black 18” Doll hat

 * Green and White Faux Suede Fabric

   Black Felt

   ¼” Green Glitter or regular green ribbon

   Scissors

   Hot Glue Gun

   Ruler

   Chalk or white dress making pencil

Creating flower embellishments.

You will need to make 2 large white and 1 large green and 2 small white and 2 small green flowers.  I used my Cricut Maker and a Design Space flower to cut my fabric.

Alternatives: If you have a Sizzix or other manual die cutting machine you can use this flower die to cut your shapes.  Clover, Clover Flower Frills Template, even makes a cardboard folding template that you can use with fabric to cut your flower pieces. Clover Flower Frills Template

In Design Space I pulled up a basic flower template and made 2 flowers.  The large is 2.5” and the small is 1.5”.  I used the pink fabric mat and laid my fabric with the soft side up.   When setting your material type select “light fabrics like silk”.  This was light enough that it did not cut the mat but deep enough to cut the fabric.

Here are the totals for the number of flower shapes you need to cut:

•         12 Large White
•          6 Large Green
•         12 Small White
•          6 Small Green

If you want a flower, we need to make the petals.  Each flower takes 6 cuts, 1 for the base and 5 for the petals.  To make the flower you will need to fold your petals. 

Lay the flower cut with the suede side down, fold it in half once, and then fold it in half again (fold it into quarters).  For each fold put a tiny dab of hot glue to keep it in place.  When you are done with all your petals you should have 10 large white, 5 large green, 10 small white and 5 small green.

Now you are ready to put your flowers together.  Fold your remaining flower cut in quarters and then open it back up to you can see the creases.  These lines will serve as your guide for laying your petals. 

You will see that a petal fits perfectly into the quarters of the flower.  Glue each of the 4 petals into the 4 quarters of your flower. 

The last petal is glued into the top center to round it out.  Complete this process with your remaining petals and you will end up with your 2 large and 2 small white flowers and 1 large and 1 small green flower.  Put those to the side, for now, we will get back to them later.

Lining the hat with Ribbon

You will need to cut your green ribbon into 2 lengths.  11.5” for the mini hat and 7” for the doll hat. Starting on the right side of the hat, glue down the ribbon at the based, wrap it around the hat and secure the end overlapping the beginning.   

That overlap will be covered by your flowers.  Do this on both hats.

Attaching the flowers

Now you are ready to go grab those flowers you made earlier.  On the right side of the hat glue both large white flowers on the mini hat at the base and top them off by glueing the green flower on top and in the middle of the two white ones.  Do the same for the small flowers on the doll hat.

Attaching your hat to a headband
We are heading into the home stretch and all we need to do now is get that little hat to stay on our headband.

Take your black felt and with chalk trace the hat.  When you cut that shape out you want to cut inside the line because you want your felt base to be smaller than the circumference of the brim.  

Once you have your bases cut lay them over the underside of the hat and hold your headband against the hat where you would want it to sit.  I wanted my hat to sit to the side so my headband is rotated.  Once you have your headband where you want it, make two little marks where the headband meets the hat.

On each of those two little white marks, you are going to cut a small slit, just big enough for the headband to fit through.  You will put each side of the headband through the slit and slide the felt into the position of where you would want the brim of the hat to go. 

Once you have it in place you will then place it onto the hat and hot glue it into place.  The easiest way is to do one side at a time.  Also, you can place a good amount of hot glue where the headband meets the hat to help hold it in place.   The felt base helps to stabilize the hat on the headband.

At the end of every rainbow is a pot of gold, isn't she a doll!!

You did it!  You can also add additional embellishments if you would like.  A simple swap of the color’s selected and you can make this fit any occasion.  It’s a fun, easy accessory to add to the collection!