DIY felt peter pan collar necklace

As you may have noticed from my previous posts, I love a peter pan collar as much as the next girl. However, as I also keep mentioning, I paid my car insurance this month and therefore don't have endless money for new things. Sad face.

So I decided that DIY was the only way to go - and preferable with materials I already had around the house! This diy is using the pattern form an old edition of Mollie Makes magazine but the rest is all original!

Here's what you'll be making:

Diy felt peter pan collar necklace

And you'll be glad to hear that it's super simple. The best diy's always are.

First up, raid your fabric stash for some felt. Ideally it needs to be quite good quality so that it has a little stiffness to it. Not essential.....mine certainly wasn't.

Cut yourself a template out of card - this makes it easy to reuse.

Felt scraps and a cardboard template.

 Then pin your template to your chosen scrap of felt and cut out two "collar" shapes.

Next, you need to sew a length of ribbon to each end - this gives you something to tie your necklace with!

Add a cute button or bow to the middle - use tiny stitches to link the two pattern pieces in the middle.

Et voila!! Customise to your hearts content! Here's mine in action:

Here are few ideas from google images to get you started:



From wendyward.wordpress.com



From fashioncollars.wordpress.com

A full collar.



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at etsy sadly!

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Pearl Peter Pan Collars

Evening :) I decided to put a little effort into my outfit today....doesn't happen often!


Peter Pan collar necklace from
Miss Selfridges.



Dress from New Look, belt from Peacocks, boots as usual!

Sometimes my outfits come together really well, like today. Other days it just isn't happening. I bought this necklace ages ago but never found anything to wear it with......until now!

I was also having a pretty good hair day and had some time on my hands so I put in my Headkandy hair extensions....



Headkandy hot toffee hair extensions

I still haven't really perfected the art of putting them in, as my hair is quite fine. I struggle to hide the clips - and no one wants to go out with seriously obvious hair extension bumps!

And from behind...



Headkandy hair extensions

Mostly, I'm just so impressed that the "hot toffee" colour is such a perfect match for my own hair colour!

Other than prancing about in my bedroom, I went to town and had a yummy muffin and cup of tea in Starbucks. Starbucks is my happy place. It used to be Borders, but they went bust. Boo hiss. Actually, there used to be a Starbucks in Borders. That was the ultimate heaven...




Starbucks tall tea and blueberry muffin



Well, time to head off for dinner....and there is a kitten under my arm which is making it hard to type....

P.S I was not about to name this post "pearl necklace" - that would have been an entirely different sort of post!