A Gentleman's Mobile

When Sean and I found out that I was pregnant we were thrilled.  We were more then thrilled because I was told that having children would be almost impossible for me, so we were super excited to be blessed with this wonderful gift.  We both always wanted a girl first, however when we found out that our little bean was a little man we couldn't be more happy!  If you know me you might have noticed my obsession with mustaches.  I threw a mustache party for prostate cancer during the month of MOvember which was heaven for me to decorate with lots of mustaches :)! So I knew as soon as they said we were having a Brigham that he would have lots of mustache decorations in his room!  The first thing that I wanted to make was a mobile (like I have said I wanted to be a crafty mom) so I found this on Pinterest 

Ok, how adorable is that? Well I loved it but I knew I wanted something a little bit different, so I used this as my inspiration.  I wanted to use a real hat as the center piece and talked about it with Sean constantly.  So for my birthday my cute husband gave me the bowler hat that was just perfect!  My next step was to think of what I was going to do about those mustaches... well thanks to my mother-in-law I have a wonderful sewing machine so I decided to sew them.  I found this picture to use as my pattern for the mustache.

               

I picked out the fabrics I wanted then began to sew my mustaches.

So this is what I used and approximately what it cost:

• 1 bowler hat (bought online) $7.00
• 4 different fabrics (I grabbed the rectangle scraps from Walmart and Joanne's) $1.00 each
• Fishing wire $4.00
• Ribbon (Free since I had it already)

 First I cut out the mustaches using my template.  Then I sewed them together with the wrong sides facing out, making sure to leave a spot open to flip the mustache so the right side of the fabric is facing out.  I made two mustaches with each fabric and then stuffed them with the scraps for added umph!  Then sewed the end shut and poof I had eight cute (and slightly odd-shaped) mustaches!!

I then sewed the mustaches to one end of the ribbon.  Next decide how you want your mustaches to hang.  I wanted mine to spiral down and circle around the hat.  So I taped end of the ribbon (not attached to the mustache) inside my hat so I could adjust the heights.  Then I sewed the ribbon to the hat so it would be secure! the last step I did was to sew fishing wire into the top of the hat so I could hang it.  And just like that I had a super cute one of a kind baby mobile for my little man.

Pardon my sewing skills, I am still trying to get the hang of this, but I think it turned out nice.  Having a stuffed mustache proved to be a little more challenging then I thought . But hey I love it and Brigham is entertained by it so its good enough for who its for!