More Fabric Headbands

The brown headbands
The dark headbands
The pink headbands

The blue and purple headbands
The flowers before I sewed the buttons on and sewed to the headbands.

Burnt Satin Flowers

You need scissors, a hot glue gun, satin or satin-type material, a lit candle, hair clip and embellishments (like buttons or jewels).

Cut varying sizes of circles from your material. The great thing about this is that the petals don't have to be a perfect circle. They won't end up that way once you burn them so don't worry about it! Hold the edges in the flame until they start to melt. Don't hold it too long or it will catch fire! When you have the number of petals you want start gluing them together in the center. Add your embellishments to the center. Glue to the hair clip.

For variation use more than one color. You can also add tulle to the flower.

Retro Fabric Headbands

For my daughter's birthday party everyone got a custom-fit headband.

Supplies:

22" x 4" cotton fabric

2" of 3/8" elastic

thread

sewing machine

scissors

large safety pin

iron and ironing board

Directions:

Cut your fabric. (I tapered it a bit on the end so it would fit under the head a little better.)

Fold material in half, wrong side out and iron flat.

Open up the material and sew 1/4" seam at the ends. Fold material back in half and sew (wrong side out) all the way down one side, back stitching on both ends. Make sure you don't sew the ends shut! (TIP- If you don't want to sew the ends shut you can use fray stop to prevent fraying.)

Put the safety pin on the end of one side. Push that down through the hole.

Sew the material flat again.

Get your elastic. Stick the elastic in one end and straight stitch in place, going over it several times to make sure it holds. Measure your head and sew the elastic in place. It should be snug, but not too tight. You may need to cut your material a bit shorter if your head is smaller or if you're making the headband for a child.