Making a Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging

Sandi/Poor But Proud
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April 9, 2019

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - hat door hanging With a Dollar Tree hat, buttons, lace ribbon, and mini doilies, you can make this. And it looks so pretty on your door!

Total Time: 2-3 hours

Yield: 1

Supplies:

1 Dollar Tree hat ($1.00)
7 buttons ($.25)
10 mini doilies ($5.00)
5 ft crochet thread ($.10)
6 ribbon bows ($.25)
2 ft lace ($.10)
1 darning needle
scissors
1 Stick hot glue ($.10)

Steps:

I started out with an idea and went from there. So I cut the ribbon from the hat, and gathered my doilies and other supplies.

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - cut ribbon from hat and gather doilies and other supplies

I wanted the doilies to be the same style, but that didn't work. Also, I wish I had not put the pinks so close together, but live and learn. Once I knew all 10 of them would work, I glued them to the underside of the brim, about "mid doily".

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - arrange doilies under the brim and then glue in place

I wanted to represent all the spring colors, but only had 1 green and all the other colors had a twin, so I put it on the top.

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - green doily glued to the crown of the hat

Once the glue cooled, I found 6 perfect little yellow ribbons and attached them, adding buttons.

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - attach little bows to the top doily

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - glue buttons to the center of the bows

I realized the doilies were going to "flop" over on the top of the hat. So, I decided to just draw up the centers. That is when I realized they looked like butterflies! What a cool "discovery"! I initially used thread and a needle till I switched over to crochet thread.

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - draw up centers of the doilies with thread to make butterflies

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - tie the thread and cut

I used double crochet thread for each and then once cinched, I trimmed the thread to look like the antennae.

Spring Hat and Butterfly Door Hanging - trim thread to resemble antennae

Next came button on the top and the lace. I wanted to crochet a band but sometimes the body doesn't have the 'umph' to do what the mind wants to. I still think it came out really cute. N-JOY!!