Simple Hairbows to Pretty Them Up.

My daughters have heads full of a lot of hair,

thick rope hair,

straight,

smooth.

The little barrettes with bows just don't work

in their voluminous masses.

Bumping into a REALLY good sale at A.C.Moore a few months back,

I got some super fun ribbon for a super great deal.

I bought some hair bands that work in my girls' hair

and determined to come up with something to please them

so I wouldn't have to look at two Pippy-Long-Stockings anymore.

Here is what I came up with:

I measured out three pieces of ribbon:

2 different pieces that were 16" each

and 1 piece that was 8".

I fed the 8" piece through the hair band...

  

and tied it once.

(This piece is just to add a bit of filler to the bow)

Next I slid the two longer pieces together through the hair band,
and prepared to tie work them together over the knot of the first piece by doing this:

I made a loop with one side of the two strings...

 

and a loop with the other side of the two pieces.

Carefully,

I tied these two loops together
(wrapped them around each other),

making a bow.

 After I had tightened

and straightened,

and got the look I wanted,

I trimmed the excess ribbon,

which wasn't much.

 To secure the bow,

I glued the center fairly well with some stitchless glue.

To keep the ribbon from fraying

(it's important to be sure your ribbon is synthetic for this to work),

I used the flame from a candle and carefully melted the ends.

 (Why is it that little boys suddenly become interested in crafts when a match is lit?).

I made a lot of extra of these to sell at the Christmas craft sales.

 Yes, I start thinking about Christmas in the heat of summer...

a very therapeutic way of keeping sane

when I feel like I am melting.

Yes, I took a lot of pictures.

But the colors...

they were such fun to photograph.

My girls were very happy to have some nice hair bows...

and I thought they would be good for testing how durable the bow bands are:

(that pink one even made it through getting ripped out of her hair by the puppy

and rushed away under a bush.)

But it was rescued, washed,

and replanted...

 

happily.

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