What you need:

• Plastic beads (I’m using pearls and some blue ones)
• Tulle netting fabric
• Scissors, needle, thread

Cut 2 rectangles of netting.

Lay them together and stitch around the outside leaving a gap at one corner to feed in the beads.

Turn it inside out through the hole.

Start inserting your decorations. I made a little paper funnel and poured them in to speed up the process.

Blue done!

Add in some pearls to give it more shape…

It needs to be around 2/3 full so there’s still room to tie in the middle.

Stitch the hole closed…

Cut another rectangle of the netting.

Tie in the middle and you’re done!

The tulle I had on hand was bridal tulle so it doesn’t hold the shape particularly well. You can use heavy duty tulle, add a wire frame or a piece of felt inside as a backing to help it. I decided to leave mine floppy because they way I’m going to wear it my hair will prop it up!

I’m quite taken with this style now so as soon as I can find the damn mini pompoms in my craft shelves I’m going to make some more!

I think I might use bows like this to decorate my vanity now that’s it’s become my new hair/make up area… ugh that just means more cleaning ;_;

What you need:

• Floaty fabric, I’m using gauze but you could also use chiffon or something similar
• Tulle for the middle bit
• Needle and thread

Cut out a really big rectangle. It needs to be twice as wide as you want the tail bits to end up.

Fold it in half side ways.

Start cutting diagonally up from the outside bottom corner.

Keep cutting diagonally until you get 2/3rds of the way then cut straight upwards. It should look like this…

Unfolded:

Take the pieces that you just cut out and lay them overlapping like this:

Then add the big piece over the top…

Starting from the top, use your fingers to fold the fabric back and forth over and over so it bunches together.

You can see it starting to come together now…

It’s completely optional but I decided to add a rectangle of pretty tulle to the middle as an extra point of interest.

Cut another small rectangle of the main fabric to act as the middle tie.

Wrap it around the bunched middle of everything tightly.

Stitch in place!

To give it that extra soft feel, run your hands over the edges of the fabric to make it fray.

And done!

Very little sewing required and still pretty ^_^ I think the raw edges really give an extra point of interest on this one!

Of course if you’re not into the gigantic bows like me you could always make one much smaller ^_^ I like my bows gigantic though. If you preferred a more finished look you could also add rolled hems to the edges. Personally I wanted this one to be huge, frayed and floaty.

Hope all of you have had better weeks than me, James computer exploded this morning with a huge pop and flash. Clearly this is not my week for technology >_<

You need:

• Eyelet lace
• Thin ribbon
• Needle, thread, scissors
• Pompoms

Normally I’m not a fan of cheap non-cotton lace but this roll was especially pretty so I’ve kept it waiting for the right project and this is where it ended up XD

Take a length of ribbon long enough to go around your head. Then tie it at the back and thread it through the eyelet’s in the middle of the lace. You need to have enough lace so that when it’s bunched up it will go from ear to ear.

Stitch the ends in place on the ribbon…

Cut two more lengths of ribbon around 20cm each. Cut the ends of one into points.

Fold the ends of the top piece of lace in to the center.

Stitch it in place. Fold the other piece in half on an angle so it forms the tail of the bow like this:

Stitch that in place too.

Wrap the thread around the center of the bow a few times so it bunches in.

Cut the tails of the pompoms to slightly different lengths:

Stitch them to the back of the bow:

And sew the whole thing on to the end of the bunched ribbon. Done!

Pretty 😀 I really like how this turned out, it’s so simple but really pretty. It actually reminds me a bit of mori girl fashion which I have a bit of a love for at the moment.

As I go through and clean out my scraps I think there will be more hair accessories because they are such a great way to use up little pieces 😀

What you need:

• Beret
• Plastic fake pearls
• Thread and needle

Before I started I laid all of the pearls out so I could get the correct spacing. I started from the outside and worked in. Once I get the pattern section of the blog up I will add in a diagram.