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Party Hats

Embroidered party hat with sheriff's badge design

Children everywhere love to pretend. One day they'll be a sheriff, catching the bad guys, and the next they are playing house, cooking the supper and doing the dishes.


Imaginative play is essential for their development, and these Party and Dress up Hats will help them to go wherever their imaginations take them!

The designs used in this tutorial include:


A Party Hats Design Pack

Start Embroidering:

For costume and dress-up hats, embroider the design on your choice of fabric. Felt, denim, and duck cloth are all excellent choices. Then, trim around the design. Cut out the eyelets, and if you choose, use 1/8" grommets for extra strength. Attach elastic, and attach it to a child's head. Tell him or her to let imaginations run wild.

Tan fabric patch shaped like a cowboy hat with a yellow six-point sheriff star and a small orange circle in the center on a white background.

The cone hats are available in two sizes: child, and doll. The child size has a circumference of 15 inches. The doll size has a circumference of 12 1/8 inches.


Each size is available as one design file. The child size is available as one file, and also split into two pieces. All of the cone hat files download as one zipped file that contains the designs and a template.


When working with a split file, embroider the right side first.

Embroidery hoop holds beige fabric with small colorful stitched designs: black mustaches, green cactus, and yellow stars, held by a person's hand.

A crosshair will sew at the end of the right file. Unhoop the fabric and slide it straight across the bottom hoop, being careful not to twist or rotate the fabric. Rehoop the fabric, and forward to the first stitch. Move the needle so it is above the sewn crosshair, then begin the file. A second crosshair will sew. Complete the design.

Fabric held in an embroidery hoop with small embroidered shapes including a gold star, green cactus, and black bird on beige cloth.

Open the dieline file (with your embroidery software), and print it at full size. If you are printing on 8 1/2" x 11" paper, the doll size dieline will print on one page. The child size dieline will print on two pages.

Two white paper patterns, a silver and blue tape dispenser, and red scissors on a dark wooden surface. Beige fabric with yellow stars, black birds, and green leaves sewn on it.

Cut out the dieline. If the dieline is on two pages, cut it out and tape the pieces together.

White paper hat pattern with folds marked in pencil laid on beige fabric. Fabric has embroidered designs of yellow stars, black birds, and green cacti.

Turn the embroidery over and trace the dieline on the back.

Person tracing a paper cone-shaped pattern onto white fabric on a wooden table, wearing a silver watch and rings on fingers.

Cut the fabric using the dieline's outline as a guide.

Person holding a gray triangular fabric piece decorated with small embroidered cactus, mustache, and yellow star shapes, on a wooden table surface.

Remove the crosshair stitches. Cut the fabric from the eyelets.

Hands are folding a white paper party hat decorated with gold stars, small green cacti, and black and white insect illustrations, on a wooden table.

Fold the fabric into a cone. The tab can go under or over the opposite side, whichever you prefer. Seal with hot glue, or stitches.

Hand holding a gray paper cone decorated with yellow star stickers and black mustache cutouts, above a wooden table surface. Another hand rests nearby.

If you wish, you can use 1/8" grommets to add strength to the eyelets.

Hands holding a gray party hat with black mustache and gold star stickers being applied with a blue tool. Tape dispenser on a wooden table.

Get Inspired:

These party hats can be worn by children, dolls, or patient family pets. Enjoy!

Two cone-shaped party hats on a wood grain surface; left hat is black with yellow crescent moons and silver dots, right hat is white with yellow stars and green shapes.