The most common accessory for decorating clothes or hairstyles is a bow. They are unusually diverse in appearance, manufacturing method, material and finish. The needlewomen constantly invent the latest types and techniques of their creation. Try your strength and create a real miracle for your princess!
Tools and materials
Bows can be made absolutely from any material at hand. For such purposes, various ribbons are excellent — satin, rep, organza, brocade, etc. You can experiment endlessly, using everything that is available for work! Accessories also fit any - lace, sewing, beads, beads, that is all that is enough for your imagination!
Satin ribbons are the most popular material used to create hairpins. Brilliant smooth texture, low cost - all this attracts craftswomen. Bows of various sizes and types of them are very beautiful.
Such ribbons come in various widths, and the color palette is huge! The choice of working material is very large, a bow from a satin ribbon with your own hands can be created for every taste and color.
Also for work you need:
- needles;
- threads matching in color;
- glue;
- a little thick fabric - for fastening to elastic bands or clips;
- beads, rhinestones.
Big bow made of satin ribbon do it yourself with a step by step photo
To make a magnificent large bow, make patterns from thick cardboard. Below are three sizes, but you can make them larger or smaller. The width of the ribbon is at your request, but 2.5 cm is better. For a bow of medium splendor two meters will be enough, if you want to get a more voluminous product - add another meter.
At the beginning of the process of making a large school bow from a ribbon with your own hands, you need to wind it on a cardboard template. The coils do not need to be made too tight, otherwise your bow will be sloppy.
Then sew all the layers in the middle and remove from the cardboard.
For your convenience, you can make cuts along the edges where they were stitched, but this is not necessary.
Next, disassemble all the resulting loops, straightening.
From a dense matter (for example, take a felt), cut a circle smaller in diameter than the resulting bow and stick it on the bottom. You will need to attach a clip or rubber band to it.
So you made a big bow from a satin ribbon with your own hands!
Hair bows
Elastic band for hairstyles - the most necessary thing for girls. Create them yourself is not difficult. So how to make a bow out of satin ribbons with your own hands? Step-by-step photos and descriptions can help you with this!
You will need 64 cm of a narrow ribbon (for example, red), 55 cm of white and 55 cm of blue.
To get started, cut blanks from cardboard that will greatly simplify your work. These are "stars" with diameters of 7 and 6 cm.
Insert the red ribbon in the middle of the larger workpiece, leading it to the opposite side of the work. Having turned the cardboard with the tape, start wrapping the corners with a ribbon. Do this in order on each clove, without missing them. Sew in the middle with a few stitches.
Perform the same manipulations with white and blue ribbons and a smaller "asterisk".
For the middle, you can use large beads, sewn or ordinary rhinestones.
So, let's collect our bow. We stack the blanks on top of each other in the following order: white, blue and red. Sew them in the middle, and glue on top the decorative center.
It remains to sew on an elastic band for hair and seal the fastener with tape.
Small bows to decorate everyday hairstyles
And now we’ll make small bows suitable for rubber bands, clips or braid bands.
Get a satin ribbon about 1.5 cm wide.
On a cardboard template, wind it in 4 layers, fixing the tips in the middle.
Walk in small stitches and pull the thread.
Garnish with small beads on top, glue rhinestones.
Make several of these bows and attach them to a long ribbon that is woven into a braid, leaving the bows outside. And you can stick them to invisible or thin elastic bands, suitable in color.
Double bow
Doing a double large bow from a satin ribbon with your own hands will also not take you much time.
To do this, you need to stock up on tape, you can take 2 shades that are suitable for each other, decor for the middle and fastening, with which he will stay on his hair.
Cut 2 pieces of tape of the same length, connect the ends of each into a ringlet. Now sew them in the middle and pull the thread.
Then it will be necessary to glue them together with the lower and upper parts.
The middle can be closed with a piece of tape or a beautiful button.
You made a large bow from a satin ribbon with your own hands, it remains to glue the clip - that's all!
The options for this bow will be the imposition of rings of tape on each other, a triple bow and so on!
Invent, fantasize, and wonderful accessories will turn out one after another. Of course, nowadays there are no problems with buying hairpins in stores, but unique things are always better!