A Flower Crown for Edie Rae

Around this time last year, I found myself with a free day. Now, living in the mountains of Guatemala means that sometimes it's hard to get my hands on crafting materials when inspiration strikes (no Amazon Prime here!) so I tend to load up on them when traveling and keep them on hand for future projects. I had a stash of beautiful plant-dyed felts on hand from The Fiber Craft Studio in upstate New York which I'd been jealously hoarding for several months, and knew that it was finally time to create.

Using my then two-year old niece as creative muse and my background as a Waldorf Early Childhood Educator as my aesthetic, I set about creating a flower crown for little Edie Rae. I'd never made one before but it's quite simple. A little googling convinced me that felt flowers were totally doable. Here's a great video of the process. Some how-tos recommend using a glue gun but mine came out just fine with a simple needle and thread. The crown itself I made by cutting out a simple design and sewing two layers of felt together for strength.

I mean, look at this kid. She obviously deserves a crown!

Then the fun part started. I spent quite some time messing around with different designs and configurations of how to sew all the flowers onto the crown, but once I hit on one I liked I knew that I'd found it. The flowers were quickly sewn on over some green felt leaves, and a little ribbon sewn into each side of the crown to tie onto Edie's head. And voilá! There was a flower crown for Edythe. What's one of the best presents you've crafted?