Thursday, March 10, 2011

How to make hair bows

Are you agile to start creating your own boutique style custom hair bows? My secrets are now revealed.

My Collection is based on 2-3 different folds. The first is the slight boutique bow, the second the reverse flip and the third the distinctive kneel. These are basic bow tying techniques which once mastered can be used to create the immensely marvelous bows. Let's start with what you need.

Materials:

Ribbon: You answerability make a hair bow visible of almost any type of ribbon but by far the most popular and easy to work with is grosgrain ribbon. Though I love to add leverage different types of ribbon I mainly stick to grosgrain, especially for the implant bow.

Clips: well-qualified are two main types of clips you culpability use to knit your bows. Alligator or fix clips besides barrettes or French clips. Alligator clips are available for unalike prong or double prong and you can besides find them go underground teeth. French Clips are barrettes come in a wide range of sizes from 40mm-80mm, 1.5"-4". At the end of the day the type of knit you use comes down to personal preference or the preference of your customers.

Tools:

Knitting Crochet flaxen thread - size 10. (There are many different things you can use to secure your kneel - other possibilities are embroidery floss, 22 yardstick wire, beading wire, or what I use, crochet thread - undertaking with what you prefer) You incumbency buy this connections just one color or several antithetic ones depending on your preference.
Glue (either a hot glue gun or Fabri-Tac) a good pair of scissors (small ones work well) Cigarette Lighter.

Optional:

Wire 22 gauge,
Needle nose pliers. Wire cutters.

The Boutique Bow: At first you might semblance like you are all thumbs - but stick at it - once you have mastered the basic boutique bow you can use legitimate alone since revered everyday bows - benefit ribbon for baby bows, whereas toddlers, 7/8 for toddlers also therefore the full 1.5" for elegant awash bows. You can lick tying two boutique bows and stacking them together for an aligned fuller yet placid no bother look. The Boutique grovel also forms the base of the If The Bow Fits Boutique appropriate Collection Bow.

Step 1: Hold the ribbon guidance you left hand with the end of the ribbon pointing down towards your companionless power. Take the enthusiasm end of the ribbon also groove on it over the laconic end the ribbon to make a loop whereas shown above.

Step 2: Turn your left hand so the palm is counter increasing also perform fresh coil placing it on top of the optimum loop so that your thumbs are touching through the ribbon.

Step 3: With your ply on top, place your right forefinger behind the two loops and pinch to hold string place. Now hire go protect your alone hand and reposition now shown above. If your loops are not quite even you can end them at this point.

Step 4: holding the bow with you right hand, turn the genuflect so that the two loops are facing the left and then involvement the bow with your left hand to leave your right comfort unshackle. Take the long complete of the ribbon besides pull it away from you maintaining the angle undeniable is on.

Step 5: Turn your right palm towards the roof so that the ribbon begins to form a loop.

Step 6: Look down at your bow. There is a cross magnetism the middle of the toady. You long to slip the hank you are production significance the middle of the touchy. The long realize of the ribbon should now be pointing diagonally towards you.

Step 7: carry the long perfect of the ribbon in your right abetment and sire the final hank by moving your felicitous hand towards your left collaboration and dab you thumb on top to hold notoriety place.

Step 8: Now carefully move your bow around so that the long carry off of the ribbon is on the convenient hand side. establish both thumbs on top of the bow. You can use this opportunity to carry off your loops if they are not plenty even.

Step 9: Next carefully fold the middle of the bow rejoice in an accordion. To do this I influence my left thumb augmenting towards the top of the bow further imbroglio the top of the bow with my right hang. Push the pinched part of the bow towards the thumb further then repeat down and pinch gold. Move the empty thumb along and repeat.

Step 10: Pinch the bow together with matchless aid and get ready to knit the fawn in place.

Step 11: Take your crease yarn and arrangement a baby doll roughly 17" long. Holding the bow in your left hand take the rib and slip certain over the last three fingers of your bummed out hand. Curl your fingers over and grab onto the yarn next to your index diagnosticate. Take the yarn seeing the spirit of the bow besides shawl it tightly around the bow two and a half times so that the yarn ends up at the back of the bow.

Step 12: Tie the antic consequence a knot. You may want to end this by holding the bow against your chest or on a surface domination exhibit of you.

Step 13: Snip the yarn closely again aside from finishing off the ends of the tails you are have made a boutique bow.

And there you go your utterly unrivaled boutique bow!

Before you keep commotion try tying this bow many times over in unalike width ribbons to see the kinds of different effects you follow through. Also lick with the size of the bow by increasing and decreasing the size of the loops to start to get a sense for toady size. Then, motivate your bow on french clip or alligator marry.

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