Wild Thing Headpiece

Step 3 Building up the head

This part is the trickiest part of the whole project. You may need to do a little bit of trial and error until you get results that you are satisfied with. (Don't give up. You can do it!)

I used some fabric to create the dome-shaped upper part of the head.

I measured the circumference of the cardboard base, and cut out two roughly half-circles whose flat sides were each 3/4" longer than half the circumference of the base.

The two pieces of fabric were joined together with a seam along the curved section. I placed the fabric onto the base and glued the bottom half-inch of the open end of the fabric to the bottom of the base, just under the lip.

I then stuffed it full of polyester filling through the holes left in the inside of the top of the base to get a nice, fluffy, helmet-like shape.

If the shape you have at this point is not even remotely dome-like, you may need to go back and modify the shapes of fabric you used to begin with.

Once the dome-shape was done, I sewed pieces of felt together placing seams where they'd appear as cheek and lip creases. This was glued onto the base as before, and pulled, tucked and stitched back to stretch it tight.

Comments

[mr_reese]

I also used the triangle method to create the dome in step 3. But instead of 5 triangles I used 3. look online for ball patterns using triangles and only make half enlarging it to the size of your base.

[travywhat]

Instead of two half circles, we used like five triangles and sewed them all together. made a nice dome. just make the triangles as tall as you want the dome to be.

[seamster]

This is a smart, quick way to make a good dome shape.  Thanks for posting this!

[stevenlk]

honestly i cannont get passed this part. i cant get the dome dimension.. any other tips or precise measurements.

[nathannnahtan]

what i did was cut another base, cut out the inner circle and cut it in half. then i use that to guide the fabric to make a dome shape

[miketunes]

Maybe he means sew the two pieces together along the flat part, not the curved part.   It kinda looks like there's something a pillowcase or something else not mentioned he's sewing too.  I'm not sure, I'm working on it now trying to figure it out.