Hand Tied Baby Headwrap | Diy Bow And Headwrap

Hi everyone - this is christina from pretty in pink supply and today i'm going to show you how to make these adorable little head wraps. I'M going to show you sizing how to use the head, wrap sizing boards and i'll link below where i got them. They'Re from a place called recaptured values and they are on etsy, so i'll link those for you guys below and then we'll just walk you through all the steps on how to get the same sizing every time. So i think that's one of the biggest things um when you're making these type of head wraps is to have consistent sizing. So we're going to go over all of that. So to start you're going to need some scissors some stretch fabric, it doesn't have to be liverpool or bullet, but you want something: that's going to kind of stand up nicely when the bow is tied and liverpool and bullet type stretch, fabric work really well. We do have this type of fabric on the website. We have it in strips so strips just like this they're pre-cut into five inch by 60 inch strips or we also have it in half yard and full yard. So if you wanted to cut your own strips, you can do that as well. So what we're going to do first, is we are going to cut down our strips? How i do it normally is. I start with sizing the typical sizing that you would use for. Headbands, so for a newborn, we're gon na make a newborn one today. So for a newborn we typically do a 12 inch headband. Okay, that's just for the headband. That'S just for the part that's going to go around the head, then i'm going to add an additional 18 inches to my fabric. For my bow, this is going to be the part, that's folded and wrapped around and tied, and all of that, so that's going to give you enough to make a bow just like this, along with your head, wrap part. Okay. So once i have my extra 18 inches, so i have let's do this one more time so 12 inches and then 18 inches. For my bow, if you use different type of sizing for your headbands, that's fine! You can use whatever headband sizing you have already. If you have say you do 11 inch for newborn, you can do that and you're just adding your additional 18 inches for your bow. So i'm going to cut right here where i'm at for 18 inches and i'll put all the different sizes down below. In our description for you guys um, and that way you guys have that, but you can definitely use your own sizing you're, just adding that extra fabric onto that all right. So now i have my head: wrap, i'm going to lay it out and it's really important. If you have a cutting mat with measurements on it to help, you um measure everything out, so you want six and a half inches on your left side and then the rest will go on your right side, and this way this is going to be the part That you use to wrap around and tie and you don't need a ton of it, so you don't want to waste so much fabric. So this is like a perfect amount to tie and wrap okay. So what you're going to do? First is you're going to grab the left side and kind of make sure that the fabric is curling under a little bit. Okay and you're going to grab your right side same thing. You want your fabric to kind of curl. Under that way, it all faces inward and it's not sticking out the opposite way. Okay, this part is going to go over this part. Just like your tying and then your this, the flap closest to you, the smallest flap, is going to go over and under, and you see how it's kind of facing upward up. Like upward. I guess you can say so. It'S facing upward and it's kind of folded in so you're, going to tighten it right there. This is what we're going to use to wrap around our bow. Okay, so it's nice and tight and then you're just going to hold it with your finger and you're going to flip it. So you just want to make sure that this is all facing upward that there's no like bends or folds in it. Okay, just kind of keep it nice and flat, and then i normally use my measurements down here. Let me scoot the camera back just slightly, so you can see the measurement, so you see the measurements down here. I use that to determine a five inch fold. Okay, so i'm just going to fold it over and then i'm going to measure five inches. So here's my 15 mark - and it goes right to my 10. - maybe a little bit back - okay and then i'm going to fold it again right over and it's just gon na lay make sure everything is like laying nice and flat nothing's bent in okay. So it's all laying nice and flat this is still here and what you're gon na do is with this hand, let me turn it this way, so you can kind of grab it. So, with this hand, you're just going to go under and make sure you grab all of your layers. Okay, you don't want to leave anything out and from there you're going to grab your center and you're just going to pinch it together. Okay, so you have some nice pinches just like that, and then you're gon na grab your bottom piece and you're just gon na pull it now with these two fingers, you have your pointer finger up here, holding it like that and your thumb pinching it down here. You'Re going to wrap it around and pull out your pointer finger and then you're going to use that finger to tuck it in where your thumb is. Can you guys see that you're just going to tuck it in right there and you're going to pull that little flap? Okay? So we have our bow, you kind of want to adjust your bow, how you like it and then like this little part in here, you can always cut that out or you can just tuck it in it's. Definitely a preference thing um, but it's just part of your fold. Okay, so you see your bow now. This flap is what you want to pull. Give it a good tight, pull it's going to give you a knot back here, which is fine, because that knot is what you're going to use to kind of hold up your bow. You want a bow that sits up standing up instead of laying flat like that. So when it's on the baby's head, it's sitting up so now that i have it nice and tight, i'm gon na pull it off and then i'm just going to grab. Actually, let me measure it first hang on one second, okay, so we can see where it's at so right. Now, it's almost at six inches, it's not quite there. So what i'm gon na do is i'm gon na get some of my length into my headband back into my headband, so you're gon na grab where your flap is and your headband on this side and then the headband on this side and you're just gon na Pull and that's going to give you length back into your headband, and it's also going to tighten your knot right here. Okay, now, let's measure it one more time and we are at six inches which would make a 12 inch headband to go around the baby's head and then you have your bow okay. So what you want to do next is flip your headband. So you see the back side you're just going to trim off some of this flap on the back, just cut it down and then, if you want, you can sew it down just with some white thread just to secure it. So it doesn't come undone or you can put a little dab of glue in there and just glue it right down. It'S really preference, but if you don't want it to come, undone, that's the best way to do it, and then you have a nice little head, wrap that sits nice up straight so that your knot is flat on the bottom. This part is sitting on the baby's head. Okay, can you guys see that this part is flat and the knot part is in the back, so it's going to be sitting up like this and that's it so i'm gon na put all of the different sizes and information you need in the description below um. If you do purchase head sizing boards from, i said it right that time. If you do purchase these from recaptured values um, they do not come with the label, so they'll just come just like this is kind of how you tell like what are which ones are the smallest, so just slightly different they're about an inch in difference. This one's a little bit more um, but some of them are slightly smaller than the sizing i'll give you and then this one is like exact. But when you go to tighten your head wrap it's going to size, i don't know if this makes sense. So it's going to tighten it and make it smaller than the actual size you need and then, when you go to stretch out like i showed you guys when you go to stretch out the headband part that gives you your size back. So, that's why you want, to always be sure to measure it to make sure you're getting the same size all right. 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