PTI Think BIG Challenge

Hi! Have you ever seen those cute little headbands they have for babies now? The ones that have a flower almost as big or bigger than the baby's head? See HERE for a sample. I think they are so cute! So when PTI announced the Think BIG Challenge (HERE for details) I wanted to try to make something like that but with PTI felt. It is a PTI challenge after all so I tried to incorporate as much PTI stuff as possible. It is easy to buy a silk flower and headband and glue it together to achieve a similar look.

Here's the flower I made all with PTI felt. I used Nestabilities Big Scalloped Circles Large for the green, pink and the yellow piece on the bottom that I sewed everything on to. Nichole had shown us this for making a flower HERE. You just fold the piece in half and then half again. I just used the largest scalloped die for the green and the 3rd largest for the pink. The small yellow pieces are made from the Beautiful Blooms 2 dies. I used a large needle and yarn to sew it together. Kind of thick but still manageable.

The button in the middle is also from PTI. It had a little indent in the middle so I glued a little SU rhinestone in it.

I thought about attaching the flower to hats and plastic headbands but I really wanted the elastic headbands so I could give it away as a baby gift. I only hope she has a girl! If not I hope to find someone who would give it a good home. I ran out and bought the headbands from Macy's this morning.

I sewed the headband to the flower and then hot glued another scalloped felt piece to cover up all the messy yarn.

Just to show you the size as compared to a PTI stamp set.

Tried it on my daughter's dolly. Yeah, it's pretty big.

Then I thought about how to package it and came up with this. This is the back. I cut one of those clear boxes that PTI stamps come in. I rounded the corners and punched 2 pairs of holes near the top and bottom and tied the headband to the plastic with twine.

The front. I'll probably place it in a clear bag. Just don't have one at the moment.

Thanks for reading and have a great day!

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