Kelee: Valentine's Day Hat

My little girl is all about pink and hearts and love and glitter, so Valentine's Day is right up her alley. Of course, so is Thanksgiving because she always gets the two confused and has been thankful "for passing out hearts" for the past three Thanksgivings. She's a pretty rocking little girl so when I made her a new hat with the pink yarn she picked out, she also asked for me to make a mohawk on it. Or a fauxhawk. Or a yarnhawk.

If you haven't made these before, it is easy enough. You just make tassels pointing up. She's been wearing the hat contentedly for a while now, but with Valentine's Day coming up, I got tempted to heart it up. It turned out to be easier and cuter than I'd expected. First I cut out a heart from some felt.

I put a few drops of some fabric glue on it and stuck it to the hat then embroidered on it. I would recommend, however, that you skip the glue and do the decorative embroidering before you attach it to the hat. I had to sew through the glue in some parts and it was really hard to do.

Apple couldn't help but to be lured into the embroidering of her own heart. In the traditional reclined position of an expert embroiderer. 

I ended up with the all my thread ends and stranding on the inside of the hat. If you embroidered the heart first and then attached it with some decorative yet functional outlining of the hat, that would be enough to secure the heart onto the hat and it look better on the inside of the hat. If you are concerned with that sort of thing.

It looks great on her giant head and is the perfect mix of sweetness and rocking - just like my little girl.

 I embroidered the word "love" in cursive because I love writing in cursive. That's not really why. I was hoping it would look tattooey. The girlchild embroidered "love" and "mama" on her own purple felt heart. Sniff. Sniff.

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