How to make a Hair Bow Tutorial

It has probably been a very long time since my last post, so I decided to do something EXTRA special this time, and it's taken me over a month to just have the nerve to post.

In this tutorial I teach how I make a hair bow. Now if it were up to me my daughter would have over a billion of these things in her bow box, but she's lost so many of my bows that I'm just going to secure her hair bows onto her head using a scrunchy instead of a barrette clip. I will show how to do that in another video someday.

To make a hair bow the first thing you need are the materials which include:

• Ribbon
• Needle and Thread
• Barrette Clip 
• Scissors

Step 1: Overlap the ribbon and cut where desired.

Step 2: Take the back of the ribbon and bring it to the center back of the overlap. Begin to stitch in an in and out motion (in almost a basting stitch) going upwards to scrunch the bow.

Step 3: Pull the thread through and wrap it around the center of the bow once and then put the needle right through the center of the bow to keep it secure. Repeat until you feel it is secure and tight in the bow shape, and now secure the back with a stitch. and cut the thread.

Step 4: Cut more of your ribbon about an inch and a half down. I measured visually when I cut this center piece! Then with the inch and a half ribbon fold it in half wrong sides together and fold it around the center of the bow to make a center piece for the bow.

Note: Make sure to fold down the edges of the ribbon to hide the part where you cut.

Step 5: Take the inside of your barrette clip out and put that part to the side. Make sure that you fold the edges of your center piece over the barrette clip and sew it down.

Step 6: Once you've sewn your center piece around the barrette clip you may notice that your barrette slides back and forth on the bar of the clip. To prevent this from happening sew through the holes on both sides of the clip and secure it to the ribbon so it won't move.

Step 7: After you've secured both sides of the bow to to the clip you put the center of the clip back inside of the clip where it belongs so that it can open and close and be functional. Fluff out your bow and now you have a hair bow!

Step 8(optional): For design purposes I decided to cut a triangular shape at the bottom of  the ribbon so that it can look a little more decorative. You don't have to do this step unless you want to.

I really enjoyed making this bow as I do with other bows. In the future I'll show you other variations that I do. In case you feel you've missed a step here is the video for the tutorial that I just wrote this article on! I don't know how many of these I'll be doing per month in the future. I'm trying to just go with the flow of everything. Please comment, share, and subscribe to my channel! Blessings!