I’ve been craving this navy and white combo ever since I read this post on Darling Dexter, so I used some scraps from men’s dress shirt overhauls to make some flower hair accessories. They are so quick and adorable, I’d love to share the tutorial with you. Now we can all wear some springy and sporty nautical bliss.
If you don’t want to wear this as a hair pin, swap out a pin back and make a broach, or attach a jump ring through the fabric, and make a necklace pendant. But I will showing how to attach this clip to a bobby pin, my favorite way to attach pretties to my hair.
For this project you will need a strip of fabric, about 15″ long, sturdy thread, a long needle, a 1″ square piece of felt, a bobby pin and some fabric adhesive or hot glue.
Start by threading your needle and knotting the end of the thread. Sew a running, or gathering stitch along the length of one side of the fabric strip. The stitches should be around 1/8″ to 1/4″ in length to get a good even gather.
My fabric has a serged edge, so it won’t fray. If you don’t have a serger you can use ribbon, or you can double over the fabric and have the folded edge be the outside of the flower. You can also experiment with using a printed selvage for the flower, that would create a really unique look!
Pull the thread so that the fabric gathers up, accordion fashion. Don’t let the fabric get all twisted up, or you will end up with more of a fabric knot than a flower. Don’t cut your thread. You can adjust the tightness of your accordion if you keep the thread on, and you will be using the needle to secure the flower in its shape later.
Now comes the part it is hard to photograph. Take the end of your fabric strip, this will be on the bottom of your flower. Now wrap the rest of the accordion of fabric around this end, so that it fans out in a circle, and the other end also ends up on the bottom.
Really you can twist it into a circle however, but if you are careful to keep both ends in the back, your flower front will be a lot more attractive.
See! That’s a confusing picture, but as you work with it, you’ll see what I mean!
Now take your needle, which will be in the back if you’ve done it right, and stitch through all the flower layers to the front. Return the needle to the back keeping the stitch very small on the front. Go around and around making sure that the layers of the flower are nice and secure and won’t unravel. Keep the stitches in the front super tiny, don’t worry so much about the stitches in back, they will be covered up soon.
If you want to add a button or other embellishment, now is a good time. Otherwise, finish with your thread in back and tie off.
Now grab your bobby pin and the piece of felt. Stick the felt inside the bobby pin.
Apply a generous, not globby, amount of fabric glue or hot glue to the back of the felt piece while it is attached to the bobby pin. Make sure that you get some glue on the metal, and that you are applying it to the flat side of the bobby pin. Glue it down to the back of the flower with the bobby pin’s bumpy side up.
Now, here comes the important part. Let the glue dry all the way. I have glued these to my hair before. It isn’t fun. Enjoy!
source: clevernesting.com
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