Fabric Flower Hair Tie...

Yesterday, I showed you my latest refashion: turning a woman's dress into a little girl's dress, drawstring bag and hair tie. Today, I'll show you how I made the fabric flower hair tie.

After making the girl's dress, I had a strip of fabric left over from the bottom of the dress. For the fabric flower, I used the strip from the front of the dress. The strip from the back was used for the drawstring bag.

Once again, I've used this fabulous tutorial for a flower headband, written by Cass, over at Cass Can Sew. Head on over to see how Cass makes the fabric flower. Here's how I added an elastic hair tie to the back, instead of adding it to a headband.

You may remember from the dress refashion, that I used a woman's shirt as the lining for the drawstring bag. For the hair tie, I cut off a piece of fabric, from the shirt, that included a buttonhole.

• Neaten the ends of the strip.
• Place the fabric, with the buttonhole, behind the fabric flower.
• Sew in place.

Next step is to attach the elastic hair tie with a piece of ribbon.

• Thread the ribbon twice through the button hole, encasing the hair tie.

Secure the ribbon and hair tie, so it can't be pulled through to the front.

The ribbon at the front...

Fold the ribbon to the desired shape and secure with a few threads. Next time, I'll secure more towards the centre of the bow and less towards the ends, so the bow stands up a little more. Securely sew on your button and you're done.

I've made this fabric flower much larger than the two previous ones found here and here. I just used the strip of fabric from the dress, without really thinking about the size of the finished fabric flower. I was lucky! It worked well.

Thanks, Cass, for sharing your tutorial...


... Pam

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