Step 4 - How To Make Spikes And Assembling A 6 Inch Boutique Bow With Artemis In Love (Lesson 4)

Okay in this next tutorial, I am showing you how to make spikes to go on the double boutique bow here. It is. This is all use with one and a half inch ribbon with this one. If you'll go back to my last tutorial, you'll see that we use 23 inch of inch and a half of this bubblegum pink polka dot and 26 inches of this lime-green Chevron inch and a half. I do work with 7/8 inches as well and that's something I do want to show you, but that will be in a future episode. So I have three pieces here of the bubblegum pink in six inch cuts and two pieces in the lime, green Chevron. Six inch cuts and we're either going to use this knot or just three inch white. So that's to the side right now, so six inches each and this total of five cuts. This is pretty inexpensive, especially if you're using regular, solid code ribbon, but what's the fun in that, so what I'm going to do is just fold this over and have the corners meet and cut from the corners to the inside. Now the cut is going to make a difference. I cut usually about there. You don't want to cut too deep. Otherwise, it's going to make a pretty big V and I am NOT a huge fan of the deep fees. So I'm going to keep doing this for a second and then we'll continue on making showing you how to make the spikes for this bow. So I'm just going to cut it once again. I think, after we're done with this one, we are going to start on the over-the-top hair, bow and there's two different ways to do that. I have my own way that I'm not sure if anybody else does it that way, but I did it and it saves on a ribbon, and it also gives a pretty good look that I that I, like myself. So what I need to do is lay it out exactly how I would like it. So this is what I decided on to go on just like this okay. So what I want to do is take my needle, and this is a part where you do need the needle zcc. So I'm going to grab this layer here, the bottom layer first you're going to fold it over to match as close as possible on the ends. You see that and you want to do the outside of it, not the inside, that's going to be showing I'm going to put it in the middle, as far as I think I can see it in the middle and pull it through. You see that so make sure your knots pretty good and then we're going to do it again and if you want to try to get exact into this middle, you can take it a little bit further and fold it this way and then you'll see a little Crease there, but with me I just eyeball it: oh that wasn't the best okay, so let's go back and once again you want a pretty good-sized needle, especially when you're doing a lot more layers than I am right. Now you want it a pretty thick needle, so it doesn't break because that is not fun and we're almost done here go like this and through here, so I'm gon na lay it out how I want it and then I'm going to pull it, pull it all. The way up, so there's no extra string now you do want these to come up a little bit. You don't want to pull it down like this. You want it to come up because otherwise it's going to give a look that you don't want. So I'm trying to make this a little bit even pulling then I'm going to grab it with my fingers, like this see that once again, I'm going to make the creases in here, so I'm going to pull here - don't worry about! What'S going on over! Here worry about the inside push up. Rub you see that push up grabbing it again and I'm just going to finish it off right here and push down. So I'm going to pull this and see where my needle is and you're going to want it to go in the middle, so try line it up with where the thread is currently coming out of push it through. Just like that, you see what happened here. Just push it through: that's why you need a strong needle, because you don't want it to stuck on my barrette here, because you don't want it to break during that process. So I pull it through and it's tricky here with the spikes okay you're, going to try to pull it apart, just a little bit on the sides. You see just a little bit, pull it apart and then come a wrap around exactly in the middle. You don't need to go too many times, pull gently, don't let your string break then you're going to come in here and go like this loop it through the left over. Oh, I just made a mess of it hold on here. It is here's the loop. So you loop it through here twice, so it stays strong and closed there we go and just cut it off. Then you're going to come to the back here and open it up gently. You see that you're going to. If it's uneven with the here, you could pull just very gently on each side, but this is what we have and I'll have to light the ends there, and this is what's going on top I'm a light that ends real quick. If the wind lets me, it's not letting me so just going to keep it like that, and what I want to do. You could actually stop here if you wanted to, and just make this about, attach this to the back, and I'm just going to show you what it looks like when you bring it around. You could do this with any size, any colors as many layers as you want as many spikes as you want, and you just going to pull bring the stuff forward, and there is just a simple spike bow if you want to put that in your hair or In your daughter's hair, whoever very simple, very easy, so let's see what it would look like if we put through this on here. Let'S see that might like okay, you got to pull these up once again. Hmm, I don't like it as much as the 3 inch. So that's that we have that done. Then we have this, but I want to go one step further, so I'm going to grab this ribbon here and I'm going to grab 26 inches approximately this is you don't have to be exact with this? If you'll have 23 inches, oh well, leave it that way. I'M going to quickly make one more bow of this. This has to be bigger, it's way too small, so this is going to go fast tada, so we have this one. I would like this end, but the wind doesn't. Let me do that today. I find the lighting best outside, so that's why I'm doing out here. So what we're going to do? This is the bottom. This is the spike layer and this is the top layer you see that boom. So what I'm going to do come on? It'S like this or not like this a glue. This part here, stick this right on top in the middle glue this and stick this on top in the middle tada that looks great um. Hopefully, that's focusing pretty well yeah that doesn't look too bad. My camera's telling me something give me just a couple moments I'll, be right back sorry about that. My camera is saying something about overheating. I don't know it had like a thermometer on there, so I thought I'd shut it down just for a few minutes, I'm actually using a regular camera that shoots HD video, I still still still photo camera so anyways. What I'm doing is I'm just going to wrap these all together to make it more secure and then I'm cooling, just tugging gently back here tying a knot. This is what it looks like in the back. This is what it looks like in the front. I try lighting the edges as I as the camera was off and it didn't do the best of job because it's kind of windy, like I said it's supposed to rated rain today, is cloudy outside. So that's a that's actually pretty good for this video right now. We don't want it too, sunny too bright and it's hot outside today. So this is what it looks like. It looks: freakin adorable you see that so with this I am gon na. Do the barrette today light this up, or we say, light this up glue this glue this right here and stick in the back. We live there for a little bit now we're going to decide whether or not to do the three inch. So, let's just take a look tip today, so there's the 3/8 inch and then the little piece that I had from before and here is the one and a half inch ribbon, knotted huh since I haven't I, you know what I like both of them, but since I haven't done it with this, yet I'm going to do it this time, so this is all complete. I'M just using this little bit of inch and a half ribbon, I'm going to glue it right. There hold it down for a little bit do to do and then I'm going to open this Brett up and this is going to come in and I'm going to kind of fold. It just just a little bit like this and we don't want to pull too hard, but we don't want to leave too much slack. So I'm going to glue right underneath and glue it down glue in the middle. Since I folded it just going to keep trying to push it down, ding you hot okay and then come back this way fold it again and come over top here. You do want to light these ends there. We go and then glue it once again here and here then I'm going to lay it down actually hold it down. I kind of want to pull this back once it's done completely dry. The glue is, then, I'm going to pull the ribbon back up to the front because it takes some of it back with it close this up. You see that this doesn't touch the hair at all. It'S fabulous, move this stuff to the side, and I'm going to try to pull this out a little bit like, I said, make a make. It look a little bit better. We have this little bit here and you don't have to do this cut this way. You can do it with the v cut. If you want to and well uh that's what it looks like and see when we did the creases it gives this nice look here. You see that that's what the creases do it gives this nice look almost like a gathered. Look, let's say that see that pleated gathered whatever. So this is what it looks like in the back. I probably should use a little bit more ribbon, but I had it pre-cut just for the double boutique bow, so I probably would want a little bit more. So it comes across to right about here and doesn't look so bad right here. But once again you could play with this a little bit, get it to exactly the way you want it to look and then that's it. There is the bow, isn't it beautiful? Okay? So that's it for this lesson, episode whatever you want to call it um. The next one we're going to be doing and starting on the over-the-top, a boutique bow whatever you want to call it. It'S going to be lots of fun, there's a lot of things to learn new things and we'll probably break that and break that down into a couple different parts, we'll see how it goes. Thank you for watching goodbye.