Saturday, August 23, 2008

take a bow

i've decided i'll keep this going. just keep plodding along blogging whenever i can and i'll see hows it goes.


today i've been making bows. i made four. a plaid bluey/sea greeny one, a blue and white striped one and two smaller ones that are a mixture of a blue material with a small little white pattern, different blue and white stripes and yellow and white stripe centre. i'm really excited to wear them in my hair on bobby pins.

oh and yesterday at the markets i bought 3 hilarious/cute-at-the-same-time scarves. one is white and green grassy-ish with a poem and picture about the english royal family in the middle! the other has 'birds of Australia' and is orange and white. the third is a lighter orange and has a map of New Zealand in the middle. haha i'm also excited to wear them in my hair during summer, makes me feel a lot like Sadie the Cleaning Lady.

Oh yeah, scarves and bows in hair won't be at the same time (hopefully for my friend's sake-how embarrassing for them walking around with a friend with a material shop exploding out of her head)

jsut then i got a bit handy with the paint, and made a how-to on diy bows.
enjoy!

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step one: choose your piece of material. size really depends on the size you want for your bow. but if you fold it horizontally and then vertically, that should be the approximate size of your finished product
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step two: fold material with right side on the inside and sew along edge
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step three: turn you're now-tube the right way around and adjust it so the seam is in the middle (just makes it look neater)
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step four: insert one end of the tube inside the other end and sew together
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step five: get another piece of smaller material to go around the centre of the bow (can be same material or not- be creative!)
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step six: gather the middle of your bow with your fingers(make sure its in the middle)
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step seven: wrap the smaller piece of material around the middle where you have gathered it
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step eight: sew the two ends of the smaller material together to keep the bow in place. You may want to sew it to the actual bow itself jsut to keep it extra sturdy.

and Voila!!!
You have a bow.

Oh and by the way this only took me 20 minuted the first time, a very quick project!

Ciaociao

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