Soft Sculpture And Stuffies

A site to talk about my soft sculpture and stuffed toy creations, paper doll artwork and tarot card art in progress. All are creative endeavors for selling at Medieval events.

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Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

I'm a science fiction fan from wayback, artist, soft sculpture toy designer and cat owner.

Thursday, September 04, 2014

Halloween Witchy Hats

I'm making a batch of 50 of these, they're quick and easy to do out of felt and do make cute cat toys too though you don't HAVE to do them as cat toys.
 
With black felt fold the fabric so you can cut two circles at the same time.  You'll need to cut a 4" circle for the base brim of the hat.  Machine sew around the edge and trim it close with a scissors. That's your bottom.
 
For the pointy part of the hat measure off one 8" circle.  Cut it out.  Fold the circle in half and slice up the fold edge.  Fold each piece in half again and slice. This gives you 4 'pie slices'. Each of those is a cone for the hat.  So cutting one 8" circle and 4 pairs of smaller 4" circles will give you 4 witch hats.
 
To give it extra visual interest I also take some dark purple or blue felt, slice a strip 1/4" wide by whatever length you want, and sew it down around the curved base, leaving about 1/4" of black along the bottom since you'll be turning the bottom edge under to attach it to the other piece.
 
Fold the cone in half the long way, matching the ends of the purple/blue, and machine sew up that side. Turn and stuff. 
 
Hand stitch the cone to the flat brim by centering it on the flat piece, tucking the edges under and hand stitching the cone in place.  Done!

It looks like this, but with a hat band around the base of the cone.

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