Gifts for my Princesses

We celebrated an early Christmas on Sunday! On this side of the family I have 1 nephew & 2 nieces. The 2 nieces came before our daughter, Libby, & actually were what helped seal the deal on my desire for our 3rd to be a GIRL. {They are 4 1/2 & 3 1/2}

I always try & make a portion of their gift ... I try to grant their wishes for something they asked for, but I always try to make them something. This year I decided to tackle those beautiful felt crowns you may have seen here & there. I googled some key words "felt princess crowns tutorial", etc. I can't remember my exact search words, but it did lead me to this blog ---> "Juicy Bits" & its tutorial called "C is for Crown".

I don't have the patience to follow patterns word for word ... plus I had already bought my own embellishments so the designing aspects I did myself. But I helped myself to her free [for personal use only!] pattern which I used to trace the crown & I really appreciated her measurements for the elastic piece & the fabric scrunchy-like elastic cover!!! {Thank you!} And I am not a professional sewer so don't look too closely at my stitches. ;)

Here were my materials I used:
- White felt {I doubled up & used 2 sheets sewn together}
- Pink felt {for the initials}
- Glue
- Pink glitter
- Bronze glitter
- Sage green grosgrain ribbon
- Hot pink geraniums {artificial}
- Pink scrap fabric {for elastic cover}
- Elastic
- Pink thread

Everything was sewed on ... the glue was only used for the glitter. I covered the initials in glue & glitter {pink} & I dotted the centers of the flower with glue & used the bronze glitter. I almost decided not to do initials because I couldn't get the design to work out ... but then I thought "the whole point of having something CUSTOM is having it made specifically for that person." So I reworked my design & included the intials. I loved the way they turned out! And actually... when I had the crowns all lined up to take the photo, I noticed that they were lined up L.E.K. which was their great-grandmother's initials. {They never got to meet her, neither did I} It never occured to me that their first initials make up their great-grandmother's initials, but I thought it was pretty special.