Giant Twisted Boutique Bow (Tbb) With 3 Inch Ribbon

Hello, everyone welcome back to crafting with Janeane today, I'm going to show you how to do the twisted boutique bow using three inch ribbon now. This bow measures, seven inches across this way and six inches high. This way it is really big, and I know a lot of girls are going gaga over the big bows. So let me show you how to do this really easy using the crease method. So for this, what you're going to need is 48 inches of ribbon and it's three inch ribbon and I've got this super pretty like awesome. All designs are different. Marbled ribbon from Miss Pam Tandy I'll leave a link to her website in the description below she hand marbles them. Every one will be different. Nothing'S, always gon na be the same super cute. So for this you'll need 48 inches and, as always, I will leave the measurements in the description below, along with a link to my facebook group. In my facebook page great group of ladies there everybody is very helpful and everything so please do come and join the group. So what we're gon na do is you're gon na fold it in half when you get it in half you're gon na make a crease, and I've got my little iron here. I will put a link for this as well. If you haven't checked out my video for the tools that I use, I will link that video as well, so we're just gon na iron, a crease here and so that you have a crease right here and then I always work right side. First, you can do it the left side. However, you prefer, but I'm going to take this right side of the ribbon. I'M gon na fold that in half just right up here at the top and I'm going to give a little crease right there just to make a tiny little crease just like that. So now what you're going to do is you're going to take it and you're going to pull it around and you're gon na want this. Look when you're doing it so that it looks like this, then we're gon na hold that in place. We'Re gon na do is we're gon na take a straight pin I'll hold them together and then I'm just going to pin the two pieces together. So now I'm going to take the other side and fold it up the other way, if you guys, are familiar with the figure 8 message for doing a twisted. Boutique bow. It is very similar to that. I just have a few changes that are made with the crease message, so just like that, and then we grab another straight pin making sure nothing moves on us as we're doing this, because we want everything just stay straight. Let me go through and then we're gon na take this one out from the bottom, and this is just me you don't have to I like to put them both on top, so that they're, both on top like that. So now what we're gon na do now, you should be looking at this in front of you so now you're gon na do. Is you gon na take this corner and fold it up to this corner, so just gon na fold up that way and we're gon na go here and we're gon na put another crease, and this is the reason why I call it the crease method, because our Markers our creases, so we're just going to crease right here on this side and we're gon na do the same thing on this side, just get it all flat holding it still, so nothing moves and we're just gon na crease it now this 3 inch ribbon is A lot to work with so takes a minute to get everything in place. So now we've got our creases on both of our sides, so we're gon na do is you're gon na take. I always work right. Side. First always said it. You'Re gon na take the right side and you're gon na try to Center it as best you can keeping the edge of the crease with these points here. So you got to make sure that the edge of our crease is in those points and what I'm gon na do, because the 3-inch is so very tricky to work with I'm just gon na take another straight pin, and I'm just gon na put it this way. Right there just to hold that one still so that I can bring this one over right over the top of it lining up our creases. Just like that, and then what I'm gon na do I'm gon na pick it all up, I'm gon na hold it still. I'M gon na take another straight pin and right in the middle, going up and down, I'm gon na put a straight pin, and that goes that went through all of the layers. So now everything is all together. I can kind of move it and then, if you want to flip it over and make sure you're still straight, just like that, so now my pins are holding it steady. So what I'm gon na do is make sure my points are still lined up. So now I've got my needle with upholstery thread, always use upholstery thread. You will never have an issue of it coming undone on you, so then I'm just going to come up from the bottom and I'm gon na just go up and down. I don't a hundred percent worry about my creases, I'm just pulling those pins out from the bottom. So when I do it like how many creases I make, I know some think that the number of creases makes a difference. I don't really think it does cuz. We wrap the center's anyway, but just going through until I get across, and I have a pretty even spacing between each of my creases and with this one. I'Ve got to come up and down a couple of times, because my needles, not long enough just like I have just like that - I'm gon na go one more in so now that I have that I can pull this pin out of the middle and then all I'M gon na do I'm gon na, take it and I'm just gon na pull this all tight. I som like to hand crease their centers. I can't do that. I never can get it right and I can't hold it still. As you see, I use pins to hold things in place. I just don't have my hands just don't want to work like that. I guess so, and then I just sew it so just pulling it tight, make sure that Center is as tight as I can get it, and then I'm just gon na throw a knot in the back. I'M gon na go it to for this one. Then we just snip and just knock my thread. Okay, so now we have this and it's looking kind of funky, so we're just gon na need to fluff and manipulate our loops um. It'S not going to look perfect right out the gates now with the smaller ones. This is a lot easier, but if you can grab a hold of your loops and just give them a little pull and a twist and then because you will need to play with your loops, the loops do not come out perfect right out the gate. So it's about it a lot of primping and manipulating to get your loops the way you want it because we are sewing and everything else. So we move them around so just kind of shifting and pulling and give a little tug and all of that just making sure that everything is pretty, even because what I'm gon na do now is I'm gon na take this over and I'm gon na spray. It now it'll take a minute and I'll just show you how I did it on the other. One is so I get it all set up like this and looking pretty much how I want it and then I spray it. I spray it once and it's not a hundred percent stiff yet and then once I spray it, I can push and manipulate my loops a little bit better to get them to hold their shape. So you can tell you can see that it doesn't look perfect right. Now, like my loops, are still a little kind of out of whack, so it just takes some playing with to get your loops just right. I don't know about some of you, but I always have one loop in my twisted boutique beause. That'S a little bit uncooperative and a little bit wonky so that one takes a little bit more time to get it in the position. You want it in you like this one. My little wonky loop so don't feel bad. If you got a wonky loop, I don't know how many out there can get it perfect right off the gout right out the gates without a wonky loop, but I never can. I always have a wonky loop. So now there I'm gon na stop playing with it and I'm gon na take it over it and I'm gon na stiffen it see as it flopped as I moved it. So I'm gon na stiffen that one but like on this one. So my loops, this one was exactly like that one and then I just kind of fluff them primped and then sprayed, and then once it was a little bit stiff, I kind of moved him around a little bit more and then I sprayed it again to get The shape so there you have it, how you can do the big 3 inch twisted boutique bow without a template using the crease method. Now this is just the way I like to do it. Brilliant bow maker does have a 3 inch template for their snap templates and it's like $ 10 for it not too bad, and when I'm making my smaller bows, I do use my brilliant bow maker cuz. It'S just so much quicker, but this. If you don't have a template and you really want to do them, here's this one hope you guys enjoyed this video and don't forget to hit the thumbs up and subscribe. I will in my group I will post the finished picture of the bows that I did for this video once it's all stiff and the loops are the way I want them I'll, post a video in the group, so that group will be in the description below Along with once again the measurements for this and the link to the tools that I use video on how to do how I what I use when I do all my bows so please once again, don't forget to hit that thumbs up and subscribe and happy crafting.