Loopy Hair Ribbon Bow Barrette

Hi this is needlepointers.com, and today i would like to show you how to make these looped ribbon barrettes. What you will need for this project. 3/8 inch ribbon cut to 50 inch lengths and I'm using three colors and the one I'm going to demonstrate to you. This is jewelry wire. I got in the jewelry section of the craft store and you'll need. A 3 inch spread this little one. Here I mean matching this one, the larger one - and I need this too - for an American Girl, doll or 18 inch doll, and for this one I used a 2 inch barrette in the back, and I you you can use either 1/4 or 3/8 inch ribbon. I use the 3/8 because I wanted to match my like daughter, Brett, so for this one we will cut the you would cut the length of the ribbon to be 25 inches and when you cut the ribbon for the bigger Brett you're, going to cut 50 inch Lengths and the assembly directions is the same for either brick, so the first thing I'm going to do is I have the barrette and I'm going to take out this bar on the back these brett's you can, I think you find them. I found them before. Also in like the jewelry section of the craft store so now I have just the flat bracket and I want to layer my three ribbons. It doesn't really matter which way you layer them on top of each other. So then, I'm going to take the ribbon and I'm just going to stick it lay it along the bread now see. I had the barrette with the opening away from where I'm laying the ribbon down and I did build one, the opposite direction and it was kind of a pain because it was kept banging in and getting in the way. So it's best if you hold it this way. So now you take take the jewelry wire and I usually try to start underneath your and you wrap it around in the beginning. I usually wrap it around three times to make sure I get it nice and tight. It ends up. My end is sticking out, so I'm going to wrap that around so now you just make the loops and you want to make about one inch to one and a quarter inch loops. So I have my little board here and I can see that's about one inch and then, when you get the loop you just wrap the jewelry wire around once you only have to do it once for each loop. So now I'm going to make another loop and I want these to be flat and together - and I lived it around once again if it becomes a little bit more than one inch. It'S okay, you just don't want it to be huge and if you think it's getting too big, you can measure and make sure I'll be back in a couple of minutes once I finish this okay, so I've looped, all the my loops and as I went along, I did push I'm I had to push it over a little bit to fit all the loops in now on the last one I have only done one loop or one wrap of the wire around I'm going to wrap it two more times to make sure it Stays secure and as I was wrapping, I was trying to pull it pretty tight, but not tight enough that I would break the wire. So I cut the wire with my utility scissors. If you have special sewing scissors, don't use those for cutting this wire and I'm gon na wrap the little end around and then now I'm going to use my sewing scissors to cut the ribbons on an angle so again that's to keep them from fraying and you Can also heat seal the ends of the ribbons in order to keep them from fraying. So now I want to just go along and on each loops, I'm going to pull them apart and kind of fluff them now on some of these samples. I have here this one. I only use two colors. You can use two colors only and I just use two a lengths of ribbon at cut at 50 inches for this one, like I said before, I use three different color ribbons and I cut them each at 50 inches. You can also, I don't have a sample, but you can just make it all one solid color, so in that case you can use either two or three ribbons cut at 50 inches long in order to to get to, depending on how full you want it. This one's a little bit less full. If you can see this one is a little more full. That'S this one has three ribbons, so three ribbons will have will be fuller, so it depends on what kind of look you want. So I'm going to continue to fluff this and we'll be back in a couple minutes: okay, so here's the fluffed up Brett with all the little ribbons separated and you can move them around to make it look the way you want and have the distribution. The way you want it to be so the last step here is to replace this little bar on the Brett. I find that it's easiest to put it back in by starting with the Clippy side. First, the side that actually catches because that size coat seems to be closer to the there's less space. So you just slide that in there and then you slide the other side in. Thank you for watching this video. If you've enjoyed this video, please click the like button and subscribe to our YouTube. Youtube channel, use the comments section or leave us a comment on this video or suggest the video. You would like to see find us on Facebook at needle pointers and share pictures of your projects. 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