Living With A Bunch of K's: The Birthday Crown

Tomorrow is my precious girl's first birthday! I'm in complete shock over how quick the time passed, even though I was pre-warned. I've been trying to think of ways to make her day as special as possible even though daddy can't be there. I know she doesn't fully understand what's going on right now and won't remember this birthday, but still. We've postponed her birthday party until Kris comes home from this deployment so tomorrow is going to be a special Mommy and Keri day (after all that this time last year was quite traumatic for me....lol). I have a fun day in store for us! Tomorrow I will also start any yearly birthday traditions! I have a few planned out that can easily be done every year as she grows up. One thing I wanted to do was make her a special birthday crown that crown that she can wear every year...even when she is in her twenties I'm going to make her put it on when she celebrates with Kris & I.

So, here's what I've been up to the last two nights...

All from Hobby Lobby

I couldn't find anything online (I'm sure there's plenty of patterns out there, this was just simpler to me) so I took 2 pieces of copier paper and taped them together then grabbed 3 cups out of the cabinet, placed them on the paper and traced.

Like so...

Then I cut it out...

The points on my crown are different sizes because the 3 diameters of my glasses put together was longer then the length of my paper and since I want my crown to be adjustable I cut one of the pieces of paper in half so I can put the tie in the back and the taller points in the front (In the photo). Then I laid it out flat and pinned it my fabric. After I cut out the pink fabric (outside fabric) I pinned the pattern to my green fabric (fabric for the inside of the crown) and cut it out too.

I put my two fabrics facing each other and sewed and serged the top with the peaks and down both the left and right sides of the fabric.

I didn't want the crown to flimsy so I bought some quilt batting and rolled it out and cut out a piece to fill the inside of my fabric.

I turned my fabric right side out and ironed it down flat, then stuffed the batting inside of it, trimmed up the edges along the bottom, folded them in neatly, ironed it flat and then sewed that long bottom edge of the crown. Then I cut my green ribbon and sewed it across the top of the pink side. I haven't used a sewing machine or serger in 4 years and had a bit of trouble sewing a curved line on a serger that's why my peaks here are not as nice looking as the paper cutout...HA! HA! Oh well, I wasn't about to start over.

Then I sewed a button on one end and some ribbon on the other and attached a flower clip I found at Hobby Lobby where I got my fabric and ribbon...