Hello again friends! Hope everyone had a great long weekend.
We enjoyed time at home hanging out with little bit and working around the
house. Last night we celebrated a friend’s birthday at a little surprise party.
This particular friend is a fan of yellow and so I filled her present with
yellow things, a few purchased and a few made. This friend has very cute-short
headband ready hair so of course these were the perfect addition to her yellow
gifts.
They are fun to make and you can do a lot of different things
with them. The two I made are only a couple of the styles you could go with.
Here’s how:
Braided Headband:
1.Measure around your head from the top of your
head to the back base of your head (roughly where your headband will sit). We’ll
use 20 inches as an example.
2.Cut three pieces of material giving about 2 to 2
½ inches extra for the braiding. Width is really up to you as to how thick you
want the braid. I cut my pieces about 2 ½ inches wide. So the pieces were 22 ½ x
2 ½ for this example.
3.Fold the ends together and under to make a nice
edge and stitch. I used x stitches to give it nice look.
4.Get a piece of elastic approximately 3 inches long
and stitch to the end that you have ready.
5.Braid the material all the way to the other end(depending on the size and tightness of the braid you’ll probably be left with about 18 inches of
material).
6. Repeat step 3 on this end and you are done!
Thick Material Headband:
1. Measure around your head from the top of your
head to the back base of your head (roughly where your headband will sit). We’ll
use 20 inches as an example.
2.Cut your piece of material according to your
measurement and the desired width. This one was 18x3 (we are leaving room to
add our elastic).
3.Fold it over long ends together (if you are
using patterned material make sure the pattern is on the inside) and sew all
the way down.
4.Turn it right side out so that you have a tub.
5.Turn the ends under and fold over the edge of
your elastic and stitch on each end.
6.This will leave you with a headband this is
approximately 1 ½ inches wide.
Of course you can go all kinds of directions with these. Make
flowers to add to them, use different materials to create a patch look instead
of braid, stripes, the possibilities are basically endless. Another tip is that
if you don’t have plain elastic you can use a hair elastic cut in two (this tip
found here). Have fun with it!
Daspri
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