Simply Grace Headbands

Hello Everyone. As you know I am obsessed with  making headbands. I have decided I would start making them to sell. I have created a facebook and instagram account where I will sell them only on there via paypal. I have a giveaway going on right now so please follow me on both Instagram and Facebook and enter the giveaway! There are quite a few places that sale headbands out there and most of them are crazy expensive. I want to try to keep mine on the cheaper side. 2-10 dollars each depending on the headband! 

I am really trying to get the word out about my new shop so please go like my page on facebook page here and tell all your friends. Don't forget to enter the giveaway! 

Headbands

 

As you know I had a cute baby girl about 10 weeks ago now and I have been obsessed with making headbands for her. At first when I started looking around, on pinterest and other places I got overwhelmed because I thought there would be no way I could afford to make her all the cute headbands and they all looked hard. I never realized how simple they are.

 

First of all etsy is the way to go. There are so many shops that you can find great deals. The headbands I am showing today all came from the etsy shop Tutu Chic Supplies. She has the elastic, flowers, felt backing, cute jewels for the center of the flowers, and more. She has everything.

 

When I first got my package immediately started sitting the flowers on the headbands deciding which flower I wanted to put on which elastic and so on. I decided that I wanted to put clips on the flowers so that I could trade out the elastic and flowers so they could go on any elastic. So I had to make my elastic so i could clip different flowers on and off.  There are many different ways to attach flowers to the headbands so I will show you a couple different options.

 

So what I did was cut about 1 inch off and then hot glued the inch around the elastic ends holding it together so the clip could slide on and off. ( see below pictures)

Now there are tons of different clips out there. I honestly like these ones the best because they dont make the flower stick way far off her head. I like it to look like the flower is perminately attached. It is kind of tricky to get them glued on without gluing the clip together. I learned it was easier for me to put a dot of glue on a bobby pin from my hair and then spread it on the parts i wanted to glue down that way i wasnt getting glue everywhere and it wasn't making the other part of the clip glue shut.

 

 

Now i think this is the most common way to attach a flower. This is more perminate though so if you dont want to trade the flowers then you can do it this way. On the back of every flower is a felt circle. you would lay the elastic over the back and then hot glue another felt circle on top of it so it sandwiches the elastic in the middle.

If you put the flowers on clips there are many different varietys that you can come up with. Which equals many different outfits to match.

 

 

The last way I like about attaching. If you just take a needle and thread and you can stitch a few stiches in the back. Going up to the felt on the back of the flower back down through the elastic. Just do a couple stiches to make it secure. Then when you are done just use an unpicker and your flower comes off. That way it looks like it is perminately attached when it is not.

 I love this elastic because it is super soft and it doesnt itch my daugthers head. She will actually keep these headbands on. I have been looking for a grey color for a long time now and I haven't liked any of the ones I have. But this grey matches really well and i like it alot!

If you like this kit that i got it comes with 5 elastics. 2 skinny and 3 5/8 inch. and 5 flowers with felt backings and 4 jewels to go in the middle of the flowers if you would like. The link for this kit is here.

fabric flower #3

Fabric Bow



These bows are super easy to make and look really cute on new babies or older todlers which ever you prefer. They really only take maybe 5 minutes.

 

 

SUPPLIES:

Material

Sissors

Needle

Thread

 

 

Step 1: cut out a strip of fabric. Now this may change depeding on your style and how big or small you want the bow. I cut mine 7 inches by 2 inches. Then cut out a smaller strip which will go around the center of the bow i cut mine 5 inches by 1/4 of an inch.



Now fold your fabric so they over lap a little bit and then sew a loose stich up the middle. Make sure to go through the front of the fabric as well not just the back. (pictures below)

 

 

Now pull the thread tight so it scrunches up the middle and tie it off.

 

 

Now you wrap the smaller strip you cut around the middle to hide the stich. and you can either hot glue it on there or sew the back with a few stiches to keep it on there either way.

 

* what i did was lay my bow on to a headband ( I crochet all my headbands but I am sure it would work with the elastic headbands you buy also) then i wrap the smaller strip around my bow and my headband and that is how i attach the bow to the headband and then stich the back with 2 stiches just to keep it on. That way if i want to change headbands or something i can just cut the strip in the middle and it wont ruin my bow.

 

Fabric Flower #2

FABRIC FLOWER #2

 

This flower is super simple I found a couple different ways of doing it on pinterest and then kind of made it my own. So this is what worked best for me.

 

Step 1. I cut out a flower shape out of paper and then pinned it on the fabric to cut it out. I am not good a drawing flowers freehand so i traced a quarter 5 times you can see it in the picture below and that made it so it was pretty even.

 

 

Step 2. For this flower i cut out 14 flowers. It depends on how poofy you want your flower most of the tutorials i saw only did 10 flowers it just depends on what you want. Anyway cut out however many flowers you want and 1 felt circle for the back.

 

Step 3. Fold the flower in half. And right where my finger is I put a small dot of hot glue and folded it in half again just to kind of keep it together.  So 1 pedel will be folded in half twice. You dont have to glue it in the middle like i did i just found the flower stayed together better.

 

Step 4. Place 4 pedals side by side onto the felt. Just put a small dot of glue in the middle and place the four around it. like the picture below.

 

Step 5.Do that same step again ontop of the ones you just glued in the spaces between. I did 3 rows of this on my flower.  Then for the top two just put a dot of glue and stick them in there so they are fluffed up. You can also not put the top 2 in and just put a button instead.

 

Side note. This works better for light fabric. I used just plain cotton for mine and you can see the right and wrong side. It would have probably looked better if you couldn't see the wrong side but oh well i still think it tured out pretty cute.

 

If you like this look better (the yellow flower below) It is the same process but instead of cutting out the flower with 5 pedals at the first it is just a cirlce. Then you just fold it in half and in half again just like before. The only difference is that its a circle and the red one was cut with pedals.

fabric flower 1

Fabric Flower #1

I have had quite a few requests on how I make my fabric flowers for my headbands. So I thought I would post 1 flower a week or maybe 2 depending on how it goes.This flower is super super easy. Lets face it most everything I will post on here will be easy because I don't have time to make hard complicated things and I like easy things.

Supplies.

Felt

Fabric

Sissors

Hot glue gun.

 Directions

Step 1.

Cut 1 circle out of felt for the back. Any color will do because you wont see it. 

Step 2. 

Cut out lots of circles of the fabric of your choice. I did about 15-20 circles. (see photo below)

Step 3.

Take one circle at a time and fold sides inward. (look at photo below). Put some hot glue on the bottom and glue it to the felt then keep squishing the circles in next to each other so they are all bundled up.

Eventually after you have glued a bunch on you will have a beautiful fluffy flower. I turned it over and cut off the excess felt but you don't need to unless it is showing. Just remember to try and glue all the circles as close together as you can it will make it look more full. 

You can put them on headbands or hats or whatever I think they are super cute! 

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