Hair accessories; how to make a cloth bow

  • Prep Time
    10 min
  • Total Time
    10 min

Hair bows are great accessories for little girls -or even for their teddies and dolls! I have seen these in “Build-A-Bear” but there really is no need to buy, when they are so easy to make.

I first decided to make some for the kids’ teddies while stitching matching nightwear for the teddies and my girls and have never bought another bow since.

This is how to make them for very few rupees and in very little time.

You will need 3 pieces of cloth -two measuring about 6cm by 3cm + a long thin piece for the middle measuring about 7-8cm

Ingredients

    Directions

    How to do it:

    Step1

    With sharp scissors cut two equal sized rectangular shapes out of the cloth.

    Step2

    Turn the cloth so the front of the cloth face each other (both are inwards facing). Stitch all around the edges. Leave a small gap of about 1cm in the middle of the longer side. As you can tell, I am not particularly neat when I snitch. But it really doesn’t matter in this case as all the shoddy work will be hidden on the inside afterwards.

    Step3

    Turn the cloth inside out using the small hole

    Step4

    Use a pen (with the cap on!) to push out the corners from the inside.

    Step5

    Squeeze the middle together and tie the long thin cloth piece around the middle.

    Step6

    Stitch at the back. With a few extra stitches, stitch the middle part onto the bow to keep it in place.

    Step7

    Tie a hair clip, hairband or rubber band to use it as a hair accessory. Or tie an elastic to the middle to keep it neatly on the ears of a teddy (see picture below). While making this I only had orange elastic string at home. It would obviously be better to use a matching elastic band.

    Step8

    And voila, it’s done. It's super simple, yet a very pretty hair accessory for all girls and their toys.

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