how to: simple floral earmuff /headband

This week has been so full. Definitely lovely things to blog about: pumpkin patches, baking, school project making... but I chose not to for the first time... blog about it. Well, I guess I kind of just did. But you know what I mean... I took a break from chronicling it all. It was a good choice, and I feel refreshed. I also love that I'm all caught up in my shop orders, with the exception of some custom items that will begin next week. If you've bought something recently... know that it is traveling to you... might even be in your mailbox today!
So that opened the door for a little something fun and semi-frivolous today. Fun and frivolous is quite important to sprinkle in here and there. I'm growing out my hair a little bit. I'm in that in between stage and NEED headbands. Last weekend, right before I had a birthday party to attend, my headbands all vanished into the black hole that the spare socks reside in. The kids were in the car... waiting for mama. Collecting lots of odds and ends comes in handy. I ran to my studio... grabbed an already felted charcoal cashmere sweater to chop quickly... maybe a sleeve. What could do the trick? Ahhh... it was a turtleneck. Obvious. Perfect. Inspiration. Slice. Instant head band from the turtleneck. No sewing. Done! One edge is finished so folding it over makes the whole thing tidy. I've worn it all week and then decided to make it cozy and fancy... the fun & frivolous one.

I added flowers ala one of my favorite books: FABRiCATE and made the band a little wider. Now I have a new floral ear muff that has a little feeling of a fascinator.

There are a million wonderful felted and fabric flower tutorials. Just do a google search... or even better leave a link to your favorite one in the comment section and then we can all share. I'll start us off with:
Wisecraft's fabric flower
Betz' s felted flower brooch

Simple Floral Ear Muff or Headband

Need:
felted turtleneck sweater
scissors
thread
needle


Make:
-slice!
-adorn... or not!
-wear

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I'll see you all tomorrow to announce the winner of the custom give-away! It's going to be painful for me that it's only one of you wonderful friends... thank you for the tremendous outpouring of love!