Hair Bow Extravaganza

I've been going a little crazy making hair bows lately. I know my baby girl isn't here yet, but I'm just preparing. Plus, they are so much fun to make! I need to add more color variety to the bows, but for now these will match all her little newborn outfits.

Here is a sampling of the different hair bows I've been working on (all of the bows are relatively small from 1" to 2.25")...








TUTORIALS:

**Crushed fabric flower tutorial from make-it-and-love-it here.

**Felt flower tutorial from make-it-and-love-it here.

**Satin flower tutorial from my sisters-in-law here.

**Fold over elastic headband tutorial here. (I purchased the fold over elastic from that same store here.)

**Sweet Little Bow tutorial found here.

I attached clips (snap clips and/or alligator clips) to the backs of most of the hair bows (with the exception of the small felt flowers and sweet little bows, I'll just attach with some elmer's glue to my baby's head). This way I can either clip the bows straight into her hair or onto a headband.

Double Headband with Flower

I have been really into crocheting for the past few months. I found the pattern for this headband, whipped a few up, then somehow lost the pattern! Luckily, about a month ago a friend of mine found this pattern and e-mailed it to me! It is such a cute, fun, and easy pattern. I was able to whip up a headband in about 10-15 minutes. I have made them in yellow, turquoise, red, white, and gray! Such a fun way to dress up a boring ponytail!

Here is the yellow one I made (I made a 5 petal flower instead of 6, and I made the center smaller.)
Here is the headband from Creative Me. If you would like the pattern, check it out here.

Rosette Trio Hair Accessory

 I made these rosettes with a friend the other day and I wanted to put them on a headband. Two problems....I didn't have a headband (and I really didn't want to go out and buy one), and I've already made a ton of headbands and I wanted something a little different. So I hot glued the rosettes together like so...

...then I used some felt on the back and hot glued one of these clips on. This way I can just put it in my hair like the picture above...or I can always put it on a headband, or a hat, or anything else that might cross my mind! Enjoy!

Yo-Yo Bobby Pins

I can't take the credit for this totally. I saw it at some store....but figured I could figure out how to make them pretty darn simple. First you make a fabric Yo-Yo using THIS tutorial. I normally don't iron down the edges before sewing the edges because I like the more tattered look.

Then you'll Need:

~Bobby Pins
~Felt
~Hot glue gunCut thin strips of felt and put through the bobby pin on one side....so you'll be able to fold the felt in half. Put a dab of glue on top of the bobby pin and on the side then fold felt in half!

Then put another dab of glue on top of that...then add your Yo-Yo!

It's as simple as that!! And look how cute and easy they are!

Head Bands

Here are a few headbands I made with a friend. I got some good practice making the rosettes. And I always love making the yo-yo's! But I burnt my finger quite a few times trying to hot glue the flowers to the headbands. Oh well, I think they turned out great!