Creative Kickstart
Make Your Own Christmas Crowns
This is an extract from our Studio Dispatch from 28th November 2025.
Our Creative Kickstart segment brings you a new creative challenge, designed to help you embrace imperfection, fill your sketchbooks, and find your own style. From quick drawing prompts to collage, textiles, and hands-on projects, these exercises are all about experimenting without pressure.
The goal? To carve out a little time to experiment without pressure. We really encourage you to give these a go!
Today's Activity | Make Your Own Christmas Crowns
This week we have a festive creative kickstart for you! If you're tired of the flimsy tissue-paper crowns you get in crackers, here's a great creative exercise to help you create your very own felt crown to use year after year. In typical Fabled Thread fashion, we've not gone for a festive theme for the decorations themselves, so you could actually use these hats all year round, for any special occasion.
This week I've enlisted Jen to help me, since she's a master seamstress, and together we've designed this activity for you. With an instruction video and a written how-to guide, this creative kickstart has everything you need to make your one felt Christmas crowns. We hope you enjoy making these, and we can't wait to see your finished crowns!
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