Sweet Little Hair Bows

I am TRYING to be better this pregnancy about getting the rest I need.  Not just sleep, but actual REST during the day.  Meaning, I am trying to take some time each day to sit on the bed with my feet up so that my legs can rest.  With Katie's pregnancy I struggled a lot with varicose veins and even ended up once in the emergency room with a possible deep vein thrombosis.  My poor aging body just doesn't handle the extra weight and pressure of a baby very well.  So, I am trying to be good.  However, I get bored very easily and so I have been trying to find things that I can do on my bed for about an hour a day.  I've already made a bunch of newborn hats, I am about a third of the way done with a crocheted blanket for the baby, and I have some more projects in the works. 

Yesterday I finally got around to a project I have been meaning to do for a while -- hair bows for Katie.  Now Katie doesn't have much hair, but what she does have needs to be contained.  I don't do bangs on my girls so I have to find ways to pull their hair back.  Katie's is too short for a pony tail, so little "water spurts" are what she usually gets.  Regular tied ribbons tend to fall out, so I wanted something that would stay a little better.  I googled some and came across a few tutorials and I merged them (and the materials I had on hand) into this:

They are super simple!  You need two felt pieces, one that is 5.5 cm x 3.5cm and one that is 3.5 cm x 1 cm.  You also need a needle and thread, a french clip (mine are about 1.5 inches), and either scissors or a rotary cutter.  Can I just say for a second how much I LOVE my rotary cutter.  It is a new item for me and I have no idea how I lived so long without one.  It makes cutting fabric and felt SO much easier.  I can't recommend one highly enough (though you do need the self-healing mat and the the ruler overlay thing to go with it...but again, TOTALLY worth it!)

 

 

First, take your larger piece of felt and do a quick running stitch, up and down, at the center point of your felt.

You can see it better on this one:

When you have done that, pull lightly on the end of the thread to "scrunch" your felt up.

Next, take the smaller piece of felt and wrap it around the bow piece and into the french clip

 

 

Sew the ends of the small piece of felt together to secure it all to the clip

 

And voila! You are done!  I made 6 sets of two and I think I had them all done in less than an hour.

 

 

 

Now I just need to take a picture of Katie wearing them!  She looks SO SWEET!

Comments

[Rhadonda]

You are most multi talented!! Not many things much cuter than hair bows on little heads!

[phillipsfamily]

Thanks!  I had fun making them!