The best part about it is that it takes absolutely no skill whatsoever to make :DYou need a bunch of random chains ribbons and charms in a colour scheme. I chose blue/white/gold.Cut lengths of the ribbons and chain. It should be around 1 and 1/3rds the length you want the finished product to be.

String charms randomly on to most of the ribbons, I left the chains blank because I couldn’t be bothered finding pliers.

Now the thing that keeps it all together is the knotting, grab another piece of ribbon, this one should be quite a bit longer than the others. Tie it in a tight knot around the other ribbons around 5cm from the ends.

Leave around 10cm gap and tie it around everything again. The placement of the knots is what determines the draping of the ribbons and charms.

Keep going until you’ve tied it all up. I had 4 knots by the end. Now we need to make a way to attach it around the neck/wrist. Cut the ends leaving around 2cm of ribbon after the end knot and leave around 6cm more of the ribbon you did the knotting with. Fold it in half like this so it forms a loop.

Wind a bunch of cotton around it and tie off to keep it in place. Now all you need to do is thread another ribbon through those loops and tie it around your neck!

Taadaa!

Lots of dangly pretty things, I think this kind of style works best with lots of little dangly things.

I’m glad to get crafts like this out of my system! When I see really particular styles everywhere I just want to make one so I can stop thinking about it XD

What do all of you think? Do you like this style?

What I used:

• Milliners netting which we found in the black hole downstairs
• Hot glue
• Fake flowers
• Black lace
• Hair Comb
• Some dangly trim my Mum cut off one of her tops

I placed the two bottom corners over one of each other…

Squished the middle down on top of the two corners and hold in place! You can sew it in place or glue it to hold it while you go get the comb part.

You can stitch it to the comb if you want but I figured I wasn’t going to be wearing this very often so I decided on glue.

The comb part goes under facing the same way as the bulk of the fabric.

To give the front a point of interest I glued some bling to it. I did want to do it all the way around the edges but didn’t have enough. The netting I was using didn’t fray because it’s plastic but I would suggest edging/hemming/covering the edges with something to prevent it degrading over time. I left the rest of mine plain because I thought with the colour, the slightly deconstructed look made it blend to my hair a bit better.

So the bling:

I wanted something pretty to cover the comb part so I added some fake flowers ^_^

It didn’t really match so I tied it all in by adding 2 layers of black lace as a frill.

Then glued it on.

Then to cover all of the icky parts on the inside I glued a strip of lace over it all.

Give it a while to cool down and avoid gluing it to your hair 😉

Finished!

So I’m not really a fascinator convert but I do quite like this one and it was fun to do something different 😀 I probably like it because it looks much more like a veil haha!

Hopefully you found my adventures into diy fascinators useful ^_^ Is the culture of picking the right hat or fascinator for the races as big everywhere else as it is here?

So what you need:

• Pinkish purple, green and white yarn
• Matching size crochet hook
• Headphones
• Scissors

I won’t repeat the basic steps so if you want to see the instructions on that part check out the other tutorial I did on friendship band headphones! So this was the result of that, I was going for a floral theme so I thought the headphone wires could be stems of the flowers so I did it in green.   So now you just need to make a flower, I’m pretty lazy so I decided to use the most basic flowers I could remember how. If you can make a chain you can make these XD Cast on a stitch. Chain 4 Poke the hook through the first loop again.   Chain through that loop to form a circle. Chain 6 And chain through the next stitch on the first circle. That’s the first petal. Repeat it to make 4 more petals 😀 Now change colours to pink and chain 10. Attach it to the middle of the next white petal and keep going until you have 4 more petals behind the white. Done! Now tie it off and leave the ends long. Tie a flower to each ear bud and one to the bottom. Leaving the ends long will make it even more spring-ish. Taaadaaa…
I was thinking of maybe adding another couple of smaller flowers and maybe some beads/diamantes to the ends of the strings. What do you think? Lastly, following on from the Magshop advertorial last week, Nuffnang have asked me to mention they have another offer as the competition ended so soon:

What do you guys think of the headphones, I think there are so many variations of these I want to make now!

What you need:

• Ribbon
• Paper clips
• Scissors
• Needle and thread
• Decorations (I used little bunny appliques)
• Metal letter clip things

First off apologies, some of the photos are pretty blurry because I tried to use James’ new camera without having any clue about the settings. Fail on my part! You can still pretty much see what’s going on though ^_^

The first thing to do is cut the ribbon into 3 pieces, 2 long and 3 shorter. The long ones should be enough to go from your waist, over your shoulders to the middle of your back and the short one goes from the middle of your back to your waist again.

Melt the ends with a lighter to prevent fraying, be very careful not to burn yourself. Depending on the kind of ribbon you have it might not be necessary.

Stitch the ribbons into the Y shape. The long ribbons at the top and the short one at the bottom.

Cover the stitching with something cute… like bunnies 😉

Fold the end of the short ribbon under and stitch it in place. You might want to fold it twice to seal the edge.

Taadaa…

These are the clips I’m using, they were 6 for $1.50 at a junk store and have a strong spring in them, you could also use bulldog clips or even pegs for a cute rustic look^_^

Sew the folded end onto the clip. If you want you could cover it with another bunny but I thought it looked ok like this.

From the back:

Now the other sides are a bit trickier, they involve making kind of a belt system out of paper clips!

Start by folding the edge of the ribbon up and stitching that in place.

Slide a paper clip on like this:

Fold the end of the ribbon up and slip the sewn loop at the end on to the bottom arm of the paper clip to hold it in place. Sure this probably won’t last through *heavy* wear but it worked for me all day.

Now we need a way to attach it to the clip without sewing it so it can’t adjust. So add another paper clip to the bottom loop like this:

And stitch the paperclip to the back part of the clip.

Repeat on the other side and you’ve got yourself some make shift suspenders 😀

I think I might deco the metal ends of these 😀

You would be surprised how well the paperclips work at holding it up, I think it’s probably a combination of the fact that I used thick ribbon and the fact that it’s made of cotton not slippery satin.

Now let’s see if I actually wear them much 😀

I’m totally one step away from getting some 80’s style piano key ones mwahahaha!