How To Make Professional Hair Bows

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Desire to make some adorable butterfly hair accessories for the footling girls in your life? This butterfly pilus bow is so uncomplicated to make with fabric scraps and perfect for girls of all ages!

Butterfly hair bow

Ellie, my little munchkin loves wearing cute hair accessories and take been request for a butterfly hair bow for a while. And since spring is here I thought this is the perfect time to take a pause from my hectic life and make some adorable DIY fabric hair bows !

To be honest I love seeing her wearing cute accessories and I kind of made this butterfly hair bow to make myself feel better. I'one thousand going through some stressful times for admittedly no reason, really and getting creative always have the ability to uplift me. I also dear going through my never catastrophe stash of fabric scraps and come up up with something useful and cute like these lovely DIY hair bows!

Butterflies are very popular and the most loved insects in spring for their beautiful colors. Nails, cakes, lanterns, room decorations, butterflies tin can be found everywhere, as they can be fabricated to embellish virtually everything.

This is such an easy projection, even kids can piece of work on it. Even if they are too young to use a sewing car, they can draw and cut out the design, and put the sewn pieces together.

A corking opportunity to clean upward and go rid of all the small scraps but waiting a nice projection. This way, yous can make lots of hair bows to match your daughter's or granddaughter's outfits, so that they can wear them all the time. You tin fifty-fifty utilise up leftover fabrics from outfits you already made for them, and then they have perfectly matching bows.

If yous take leftover felt, glitter canvas or leather pieces, they are also cracking for making these cute butterflies.

Want more than ideas for pilus accessories?

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This project is non just a great chip buster and mood changer, it's also a super cheap style to update your spring wardrobe! This butterfly pilus bow can exist used equally a hair tie as I did, pilus clip or a cute detail for tops, dresses and headbands! I have a lot of pilus ties that are too plain for my taste so I decided to add together interest and a dose of cuteness to these just the possibilities are endless with these butterfly hair accessories!

How to use these butterfly bows

Sew these beautiful butterfly bows on a pilus clip or a brooch pin to be able to quickly personalize any outfit, and also move them from one clothes to another in under a minute.

You lot can spice up plain fabric hair bows with beads, sequins, lace or pieces of ribbon to make them more festive and employ up more leftover craft supplies.

These bows are groovy for all seasons: flowery bows for leap and summertime, orange or bawdy tones for autumn, red or green for Christmas time, there are so many designs y'all can endeavor.

But don't just limit yourself to hair or clothing accessories. Gather a agglomeration of butterflies and hang them over your baby's crib or in your girl's room. They can also exist displayed as a garland or pinned on the curtains to make the room look happier and more than colorful.

These easy butterfly bows can be fabricated as a gift for a girl's birthday, first mean solar day of school, Christmas or whatsoever occasion y'all might recollect of. You tin also make a bunch for all the girls in the cheerleading team or ballet class. Likewise, if your daughter is a dancer, upgrade her competition outfits with a beautiful butterfly, especially as younger girls are usually not immune to clothing glitter or shiny fabrics and accessories.

Butterflies tin can too make nifty birthday party decorations as garlands, or you can brand different ones to personalize each girl's cup or drinking straw. This volition too exist a small memory for them to take home after the party, as a "thank you lot for coming" souvenir.

I made a design for these beautiful collywobbles, bachelor to purchase here!

Evidence me the cute bows you made for your girls and how you managed to personalize them, in the comments department below.

Butterfly pilus clip tutorial

Materials:

butterfly hair bow template
exacto knife
self healing cutting mat
fabric scraps
light interfacing
fabric pen
scissors
pins
matching thread
sewing machine (optional, you can hand run up these too)
bamboo skewer
pressing iron
pinking shears
low temperature hot glue gun and hot glue sticks

How to make butterfly pilus bows:

Cutting the collywobbles

Print your template and identify information technology on a self healing cutting mat.
Employ the exacto pocketknife to cut out the templates. Existence so small, it's pretty hard to cut using craft pair of scissors then an exacto knife is a better fit for this project.
Place the patterns on a slice of interfacing and trace around the patterns using a fabric pen or chalk pen. Cut interfacing for each of the bows you're planning to make.
Take the chip fabrics and place them in pairs, right sides together.
Place the interfacing on the chip fabric, gluey side downwardly

and press until the interfacing adheres well to the fabric. Pivot fabrics together.

Sewing the butterflies

Sew slow, only outside the interfacing, using a small sew together and a small length. This volition assist you become dull over tiny curves and so you don't mess things up as I did lol

Go out a gap in the bottom of each butterfly slice.
Cut around the butterfly with i/viii″ assart, leaving a bit more fabric around the gap.

Plow butterfly pieces right side out through the tiny gap. You might notice a bamboo skewer is a pretty skillful help here. Simply remember to use the blunt end or else you'll pierce through the seam.
Push the gap in and so printing well.

Finishing the bows

Cutting a small strip of material of nearly 1 ane/2″ ten 5″ using your pinking shears. this volition prevent the strip from fraying.
Fold the sides in, lengthwise, and press well with your atomic number 26 on steam.

Pinch both butterfly pieces and bring together them in the center then wrap some thread around to go on them together until you movement to the next step.
Place a dot of hot glue on the wrapped thread and press 1 end of the pinked strip until secured.