Crafting With Cats ~ Part I ~ How We Made A Wizards Hat

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Supurr Caturday Greetings Pawesome Pals

Finally after a bazillion months, we're here with our furry furst crafting with cats post. Now we know it's not video, but still it's better than nothing! MOL MOL 

So today my crafty-pawed comrades we're going to make a wizards hat, yep mew heard me right, a wizards hat, because we all need a little magic in our lives.

Let me just tell mew a little of how this came about.  A few weeks an older tuxedo kitty called Merlin was listed on the Burton Joyce Cats Rescue page, now his case was a little bit different as he was still living with his daddy... howeffur his daddy was having to move and unfortunately couldn't take Merlin with him.  But as luck would have it one of the P.A.'s friends saw him on the website and she drove miles and miles and miles to get him and give him a new furever home, how truly pawesome is that?  Epically so! 

Anyhoo, so as Merlin was settling into his new home we thought it'd be a really nice idea to send him a little surprise gift, so we made him his furry own twinkly magical wizarding hat.

We are still MOL-ing when we look at it, it just really tickles us, sorry we don't know why it just does!

So as this is our furry furst post, mew must bear with us while we find our sea-legs and get the formula right.

What We Used:

Felt sheets x 2 in a colour of your choice

Felt sheet x 1 in a contrasting colour of your choice

Scissors

Needle & Thread or Sewing Machine

Non toxic fabric glue

Sequin embellishments

1.  lay felt on flat surface

2. fold

3. fold again and then cut in a slight curve.

repeat steps 1 - 3 with remainder of felt square

4. mew should end up with 2 pieces that look like this

5. put both pieces together and sew along the straight edge

6. this is what it should look like

7. open it up flat, and then roll into a hat shape and test sizing on nearest available cat - I, Basil was the model fur this, sadly the P.A. couldn't take a picture at this point because she doesn't have that many arms.  Trim off any excess to make your hat the purrfect fit fur your kitty.

8.  Sew up the straight edge to end up with this.




9. get your next piece of felt and draw around the cone to make sure the brim will be a purrfect fit

10. next measure the width of the brim and cut, so you have a donut shape

11. sew the two pieces together

12. cut out half moons with contrasting felt and glue to hat.  Glue on star sequins and mew're done. Mew have your furry own magical wizarding hat.

Now mew could use endless decorations, like curly pipe cleaners with little plastic spiders on etc... but just remember, only wear under purrental supurrvision fur safety reasons, OK?

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We hope mew have no purroblems understanding the step by step destructions, howeffur if mew do, purrlease leave us a comment and we'll help anyway we can.

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A short while later.... Et voila, meet Merlin the Wizard modelling his rather cute hat! 

Doesn't he look tres magnifique? 

So now Merlin is living with his new mum, Alice, we just love a happy ending and appurrently his magical abilities have increased exponentially since taking delivery of the hat - sorry Aunty Alice - OOPS!!! MOL

And that furriends brings us to the end of our furry furst crafting with cats post, we do hope mew liked it and if mew decide to make one, we'd love to see it.

Feel free to post your pawesome crafty pics on our Facebook page at:

Bionic Basil  @Facebook

And if there's anything mew'd like us to make, leave a comment and we'll do our best.

We'll be back on the morrow with our usual Sunday Selfies Selection and hope to see mew then!

Bestest crafty purrs

Basil & Co xox

Disclaimer:

We at BionicBasil HQ are not responsible or liable fur any injuries to person/s and/or cat/s, crafting addictions, glue on cats, paper cuts, misplaced pins and needles, cats stealing your supplies, broken scissors, cat fur stuck on your projects, or your project not turning out as planned.  By using this information you hereby agree to indemnify and hold harmless BionicBasil and staff from and against any and all claims for personal injuries or damages of any kind arising from use of any Crafting With Cats posts we may share.

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