I promised complete and rounded posts that talked you through the process of making things in more detail. This is such a post. Whilst I’ve talked you through the process of how to work with foam and how to create your own Dino Spikes / Monster Crown (I’m still debating which is the better name for the piece), it’s time to prepare you for the covering of your piece. I recently invested in a more precise metal ruler rather than using the plastic scratched and bashed one I favoured over the years, I’d advise you to do the same.
First you have to measure the final shape’s edges as you used to do in mathematics when measuring out shapes. You’ll find that this overall size will be quite large. On my own it came to 57.5 centimetres all around adding a section which clips and headbands can be put through. And then I measured the thickness of the material which was 6 centimetres. All these measurements have 0.5 centimetres added to both ends to give a decent hem and ample material to work with.
It is important that when it comes to cutting the material, you don’t mark it too severely with markers. I am using a silk like material for mine so ink can bleed and also be marked really easily, thus I have created templates of the shapes needed to make the overall piece. These templates can be pinned to the material and be cut around instead of drawing on the material. It can be hard to find a piece of paper 57.5 centimetres in length, so I just used an A3 sheet, measured as close as possible and then taped together very carefully not to give more space or take away from the size.
Paper is pretty disposable and thus makes the best thing to create templates from. Especially seeing as it is easy enough to pierce a pin through for the same purpose. I always make a note and attempt to save my templates so that I can use them again and again. I have a notebook I use for this site and it now has the dimensions for this crown despite me only making one of the pieces. Next time, it will be the adding of material and final product hopefully.
