Pretty bows

When I was a little girl I would wear bows in my hair all the time. Now I've channeled my inner child and love to wear bows again. I saw some people wearing bows with their hair half up and I also saw a few other varieties of bow placement.  I have been sewing for a while and I knew this was an easy task to accomplish. First I browsed around to get ideas of colors and size for my bows. With the abundant supply of fabric in my basement, there was no need to buy any fabric.

 

With these ideas I just started experimenting with sewing a tube of fabric to make the main part of the bow. I then folded it in half and sewed the two raw edges together. From there I just re-folded it so that the seam was in the center but on the soon to be under side of the bow. I scrunched the bow in the center to see how wide I wanted the center fabric strip to be. Then I just cut the fabric to the width I wanted with room to fold the raw edges under. I found it easier to hot glue the middle strip on the underside to keep it in place. Here are some of the finished products. 

 

 

Flower power

The inspiration 

Lately I've been seeing lots of flower headbands, which I love....but wasn't sure if I could pull it off. Then I came across this peace sign wreath. I fell in love and knew I had to replicate it. I started my search at my local craft store where I found some great fake flowers on sale.  Although I do love the colors in the inspiration wreath, I decided maybe white would be more practical since I really didn't know where this was going in my room yet. Like many of my crafts, I tend to just wing it when I see something I like. This turned out to be pretty simple. 

I started out with a metal hoop that I found at the craft store. It doesn't really matter what it looks like because it will be covered with pretty flowers soon. I decided to wrap the hoop with some rope I had gotten at the fabric store for another project. I realized later that this helped to cover the metal if there were to be a gap between the flowers, but more importantly it helped with the hot glueing process. For the lines in the center to make the peace sign I used some easily bendable wire. Then came time for the flowers, which I just hot glued all the way around the rope covered hoop. That's all! This was one of my simpler projects but I couldn't love it more. Now the only dilemma is where I'm going to hang it on my wall.

Supplies

The finished product