I love making flowers out of ribbon and fabric. Here are a couple of patterns that I have available in my shop.
Today we are sharing one of our favorites. Its simple and uses only ribbon and elastic.
Ribbon flower Tutorial
Ingredients:
50 inches of ribbon (I used 7/8 inch ribbon and 3/8 inch grosgrain ribbon, but you can use just one or a combination of several)
30 inches of ¼ inch elastic
Hot glue
thread
Hair Clip or pin
Small piece of fabric
Directions:
Follow the directions above, but use one continuous piece of ribbon
Also, when using ribbon you need to seal the ends of the ribbon by either using fray check, a match, a lighter, or a heat gun. It really does not matter the method you just don’t want your ribbon to fray/unravel
1. Sew the ribbon onto the elastic. Make sure to pull the elastic as tight as possible.
2. Put hot glue onto the elastic and roll it up onto itself.
3. Glue the back of the flower.
4. Cut a circle out of the piece of fabric and glue it onto the back of the flower
5. Attach the clip or pin onto the flower. I recommend covering the hair clip with grosgrain ribbon to make it look finished.
The finished product
Coming Soon:
These 2 flowers are a combo pattern set. 1 pattern 2 flowers
Starburst fabric flower and fabric rose
Find other fun and unique flower ideas using scrap fabrics and other mediums like fabric covered buttons on our blog
I love a pleated beautiful headband.
Super easy to make plus it looks really great
Line the inside of your headband with ribbon
Now start pleating the ribbon. Do it by hot gluing it down as you go.
Then when you get to the end of the headband cut the ribbon about an inch. Fold it over hot glue to the inside of the headband.
Look how awesome the headband looks. It looks great by itself.
Or even better with a pretty flower
