Silly Moustache Tutorial

I really don't know what it is about moustaches these days, but I am seeing them all over the internet made out of any material around! This little lady wanted one, so she made one (seriously, a 7yo can sew this).

Whatcha need: your choice color of felt, scissors, embroidery floss to match felt (I separated 2 pieces from the 6), moustache pattern, embroidery needle, and the skinniest oval cord elastic you can get.


Draw out half a stache on a folded piece of paper, this stache is about 10 1/2 inches from tip to tip of the stache and about 4 inches from the lowest part of the stache to the highest part of the stache. There all kinds of crazy staches out there, experiment with different styles. For this tutorial we focused on a simple style.

Cut out your pattern and put it on your felt. (Or you could use a half pattern and cut on the fold). We made a black one, but you could make one to match your hair color.

Cut out 2 staches, one for the front and one for the back.

Blanket stitch the front and back pieces of the stache together. Knot your floss, insert your needle through the back, pull tight, then insert the needle through the front, to the left of the previous stitch.

Before pulling the needle all the way through take the floss and loop it under the needle, bringing the floss up and to the left of the needle.

Pull the floss all the way through.

Insert the needle back through the front, then loop under again to make a new stitch. From now on you are only inserting the needle through the front of the stache.

Continue to blanket stitch around the entire stache, knot it off and your stache should look like this...

Now grab about 21 inches of oval cord elastic, stitch it to the middle of the stache.

Then stitch on the other end of the elastic.

There you have it, all done (photo from the back of the stache)!

Front of the stache.

Here's a little proof that a 7yo can sew this! She finished her stache in less than 30 minutes!

She made one for her sister too. Looking like a little professor!

By the way...."you say mustache, I say moustache!" He! He!