Thursday, December 10, 2009

Fabric Flower Headband Tutorial

So it's here, my fabric flower tutorial.  Remember this?
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Super cute flower headband, the headband I love and want to wear everyday.  Well I made another and got the pics all gathered up and whipped up a tutorial, here ya go.
Now follow the tutorial here for the headband portion, I stop and add my flower before doing the elastic, but I think you could add the flower at the end too.  Either way.
I did my headband with a contrasting fabric, but once it was done, I didn't really dig it.  I thought the gold would be more gold.  But it just appeared really washed out and didn't go.
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So that was my first go.  I then ripped it off and started over with a solid black flower.
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Start off by cutting your petals.  I used a half dollar size circle.  I couldn't find my half dollar this day cause Monster had taken it to play with.  For this flower I used I think 12 circles.  But depending on the size of finished flower you want and fullness you might use more or less.
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Next, fold your circle in half and then kinda pinch it up from the center.  It's hard to explain and maybe even harder to get a good picture.  Here is me doing a satin flower, I think I got a little bit better pics.
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Place your petal where you want it on your headband.  I do mine slightly off center.  Then just tack on with a couple of stitches, right at the 'point.'
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Here are two petals sewn on.  From here you just kinda place randomly around.
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See here, you'll even want to place some under the petals already sewn on.
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This can be a little tricking when actually sewing cause you have to fold over your already sewn petals and place you headband carefully.  You don't want to accidentally sew on a different petal and keep it from fluffing up, kwim?
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Keep going, I've got six petals sewn on and you can see it's taking shape.
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And you're done! Twelve petals later you've got a pretty flower headband.
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Yeah, I know it's a bad pic.  But I really couldn't get a good shot of me wearing it.  You get the idea though.
Also for your viewing pleasure is a beautiful satin clip I did.  I originally did this and wanted it for myself, but once I got it done, I knew better.  I just couldn't figure out how to wear it with my hair.  And really I'm not that trendy to be able to rock a sassy satin clip.  But you know who is??  Little Miss.  So it's hers now.  I am going to make one on a headband next time, hopefully before the hubby's work Christmas party.
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Later I'll let you know about a couple different steps you need to take to make the satin flower.

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