How To Make Hair Bows Part 2

Remember how i promised i made this as easy as possible. This looks a little weird, but it's going to look good in the end, so we're going to take these two pieces, we've turned them inside out after we sewed them and we're going to line them up. Might need to put your fingers in there and kind of spread them out a little to line up and we are going to stitch once again. If you don't have a serger, do a straight stitch and then a zigzag down like that. It'S dirty. But it's going to be covered so we're! Basically, i was trying to make it as easy as possible for hiding seams, so you didn't have to do a lot of work. So this is what i came up with and then we're going to take this piece right here. This is our long casing and make sure that our seam and see how the seam is right here we want that all to be on one side, so i'm just going to smooth this down and keep the seam it doesn't have to be perfectly lined up. Just you know, you don't want the seam swirling around the whole thing and we're going to take this piece of velcro sorry elastic whatever i'm using here and we're going to put it on touching the pretty side. So the seam is your ugly side. This is your pretty side, and you can see this doesn't line up to be perfectly exactly the same size. You may even have smaller elastic and it's still going to work and what we're going to do is line that up and we are going to run and because this is the point of such stress, i mean this is where it's getting pulled on. I'M gon na do this twice, so that's doubly strong and then we're gon na take this and just make sure that the ugly seam part is where the k, the ugly seam part, is there so boom like this, so double check, ugly, seam, ugly seam and where The ugly stitches are so. This is something that's hidden by the child's hair. If you had really short hair. This is probably not the headband for you. If your hair is not going to cover it, then you have to do a little more work and hide your elastic inside of a headband, but this is made to be super easy and we're doing it twice so once more, so that right there, even if you Didn'T want a bow, there's your penny's headband! Instead of buying all those dollar headbands or more i'm taking this narrow band and i've got each of the seams along the side and push flat and i'm going to fold it over and we're doing one more ugly seam. Once again, all of these are going to be hidden because it's the best pattern ever and don't serge over your finger because there's a knife in there boom and i keep cutting all my threads along the way um you can do them at the end. If you want, but they just pile up on you really fast, okay, this part's a little tricky um, especially if you have thicker fabric. This is going to be easy, but we're going to take this and it doesn't really matter how you fold it. I'M just going to fold it like in three: there doesn't have to be perfectly lined up or anything and then we're going to slide this over it a little premature with my dada and okay. This looks pretty ugly right now, but stay tuned here. We'Re gon na turn this ugly seam, towards whichever side you choose is the back, which i would go with the side that has that seam on it and then we're gon na take this and we're gon na form it. So how i had those three points is really what looks pretty in a bow so boom boom boom boom, and you want to make sure that you are getting both of these kind of having that three points inside of it. That - and this keeps creeping around. So just fidget with it until you think it's beautiful, i think that's pretty beautiful and then we're going to hand sew, as i mentioned a second ago, so i've just got some white thread that i've doubled up and knotted and the first thing we're going to do Is we're going to do a stitch just to kind of keep this from moving, so you don't want to go all the way through you want to kind of just keep it all on the other side, so i'll do one more in there. So don't go all the way through kind of back it up a little, because you don't want to see this ugly stitch on the very center focal point of your hair bow. Okay, now it's time to make a decision. You can um center! This like, if you want the bow to be right at the center of the headband, so wherever this elastic is that's the center back of your headband, so you could put it like right here. If you want it to be front and center, i think that's kind of a younger look, so i'm going to offset it and um you could still as long as you have the long hair twist this around wherever you want, you can have it on the left Side of the head, the right side of the head, whatever, but what we're going to do is go. You can go all the way through the headband portion because you're not going to see it and we're going to come up and we're going to do stitches. They don't have to be the most beautiful stitches in the world as long as you just make sure they're invisible, so don't come through anywhere. So you see i'm going a little bit behind where you would actually see, and i chose a thread color that even if you do see it, it matches the pattern that was not an accident and um. So just going all the way around and we're gon na. Basically, mimic this little square, that's where we're going to be sewing, so i'm going to bend this out of the way. So i can see - and this was going to be really easy, because this will be completely hidden by the bow. So look how quickly i can go back and forth in this section eat my carrot juice this morning. I'M not thinking clearly, okay and then we're turning to this side and the same thing we're just going to not quite go all the way through, because we don't really want to see that. So you can see how much money you could save on these if you're, just using scrap fabric that you have these things, you know scrap fabric little piece of elastic that wasn't big enough to make anything else. That'S my type of project because, let's face it, there's no money in our budget to do these beautiful little things for my little girls that i want to do, okay and then we're going to turn this and do the same thing on this side. Now you could be really clever, trying to hide your knot, but i don't really um envision people spending a lot of time staring at this inside of my headband and it's already kind of ugly. So i'm just going to tie the knot off right here and i'm going to do another knot because i'm anal retentive and you don't want all your hard work unraveling on you and then you could be done here. But i don't think that it keeps in shape. Very well, i've done this mainly in cotton, and you know it's just kind of a big bow and it kind of just flops up, and i want it to kind of be positioned in a little more. So i'm going to push it not flat because i think that would pop but we're going to push it in just a little bit and we're just going to put some teeny stitch so from the back here and make sure you don't go all the way through. Where you see it to the back, so just a couple stitches to kind of keep it there and if your kids are pulling on your headbands that might be popping out. I don't know so you can see that kind of keeps it down, whereas this one's just flopping. So it's your choice. You could not do this and then come back later. If it annoys you not having done it that way, you'd have the choice. You can see how it goes both ways, but it just takes seconds. So do that same thing to the other side oop, i almost didn't double knot. I was so busy talking to you. Okay, do the same thing to the other side and i'll be right back there. You have it sorry. My kids are at school, so you'll have to do with uh the creepy doll head or wig head. I have here so you can see that's off centered the um velcro. I keep saying velcro the elastic lines up in back here so um, even though that's a little ugly, you know it's functional and it's hidden by hair. So you wouldn't even see that unless you have shorter hair so anyway, this is totally resizable from babies. Up to adults, you would just lengthen or shorten your long headband piece to fit whatever you needed to, but there you go