Hello! I’m excited to introduce you to a cute new weekly feature DIY jr. It’s a quickie DIY that you can do in an hour or less! Hair bows are one of my favorite accessories and this tutorial has been requested a lot over the past year. I hope you enjoy…
1. Supplies needed: fabric you adore, scissors, a needle and thread. You can experiment with different sizes of fabric, but use the above photo as a guide for proportions as you get started! 2. fold two outer edges of your fabric down. 3-4. fold the outer edges in and hold in place with one finger 5. scrunch the center in to create a bow shape. 6. stitch the center of your bow with embroidery thread. make several stitches so that all the layers are secure. 7. tri-fold a small strip of fabric. 8. stitch the fabric so that it creates a loop that is small enough to fit tightly over the center of the bow, but still large enough to squeeze on. 9. trim excess. 10. slip the small loop over the bow and into the center. Hooray! You just made something adorable.
Here’s another fun idea. I made this bow with candy cane striped ribbon last year. This one is even quicker to create. It’s the same process, with no folding. 🙂
XOXO. Elsie
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those are so cute! and what a great little tutorial.
i just made some bow pins the other day – super fun, and best of all – easy peasy lemon squeezey 🙂
ooo thank you for the tutorial!! omg i had been wasting so much time, and getting into such a mess with hot glue, and ugly seams.
Ohhhh perfect I got some clips and ribbons etc recently to give this a go 🙂 YAH
super fun!
xo.
Thanks! This looks so easy!
Awesome. I have had the bug to create these, thanks! 😀
the dark red one is so adorable. thank you for sharing such cute things (:
love this! so doing it!
eeee cute!
PS: What a great new weekly feature!
Cute!
omg,thank you so much,elsie!i wanted to make bows for myself for such a long time but they never seemed to come out right!thanks once more!love your blog!kisses
Thanks for posting this! I have been wanting to make bows for my daughter and now I can!!
Thanks Elsie! These are awesome, can’t wait to try it 🙂
Can’t wait to try it too 😉
Thanks a lot!
this is awesome!!!!!!!!!!
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I am in love! I think I have to stay up all night to transform all of my scrap fabric and ribbon into those lovely bows. Thanks so much for sharing!
Ohh, it’s so cute !! This is a good idea. I think to make a big bag with a bow… by knitting 🙂 It can be funny to make the hair bow with it 🙂
I love your blog : I read every post 🙂
Love that picture of you. So cute.
yay, these are all so cute, and I seriously need to up my accessories. My little box of a few necklaces/errings is so sad!~ 🙂
Sarah M
Thanks Elsie for this great tutorial 🙂 i just made one & planning to make more!! thanxx again!
This is great – thanks for staring this up!
Oh my I love this tutorial. I have been wanting to make these for the longest time and now I can use the tutorial. Most Excellent! Beautiful bows.
LOVE this! Can’t wait to make my own!
Lovely, pretty, stylish…
Can’t wait to try to make my own.. yay! 🙂
Love this! I will have to make one!
On another note, you are so stinkin cute!!
nice tutorial! love it and can’t wait to try it!
you look just like one of your paintings in that pic…too cute!
This is soo freaking adorable!! Thanks for the tutorial! Do you use a rubber band or alligator clip on the back?? I want to plan a girl’s craft day and include this in there!!!
Oh so cute!
Hii! I forgot to mention…. I use alligator clips on the back! Xo
cute and what a fun new way for me to make bows. This actually can be really helpful for my gift wrapping, thanks.
Hey! Great tutorial, and CONGRATULATIONS on being a finalist for the 2010 Bloggie Awards! I had people nominate you from my blog, so I’ll make sure to have them go back and vote for you again! 🙂 Pretty cool!
ohhh this is cute.
i will have to try this.
OOOH! Nice DIY!! 🙂
A bit different than I’ve done in the past…I like it! Thank you for a great tutorial…my girls also love bows.
Jamie 🙂
THIS IS A GREAT TUTORIAL ELSIE! I’ve always wanted to make bows like this, but never figured out how. I even googled it, but yours is by far the best! Well I’m sure it will be… I haven’t tried it yet, but I will let you know as soon as I do! Thank you so much!
xo, Amy
OMG!! I think this is my absolute favorite diy ever!! So cuuute! I can’t wait to try them and make a matching one for the bf, haha!
My bow came out big, beautiful and bodacious!! I LOVE IT! Question: how do you attach your alligator clips bc mine don’t have holes to sew them on =/
oooooh adorable, easy and full of potential…this DIY is a KEEPER…not that they all aren’t though. 😛 wonderful stuff as always. woo! gonna go make some bows. ciao for now.
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so cute…..i think even with my very uncrafty skills i might be able to make these…or is that only cause you made it look so simple
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I love bows, I’ve made so many since you posted this 🙂 I’m superduper excited about DIYjr posts!
That is such a beautiful photo of you.
Ooh, I want to know how to make the one with candycane striped ribbon as well! lovely as always!
Thank you sooo much, I have just tried it and I’m so surprised how easy this is!! Thank’s a lot, you can see my bow on my blog if you are interested. 🙂
Lu
It’s a quickie DIY that I can do in an hour or less! Hair bows are one of my favorite accessories and this tutorial has been requested a lot over the past year. I Have enjoy myself.
I love how easy this is! And cute,too. I’ve linked this to my blog. Thanks for sharing!
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I love them all! So cute and easy to do. Thanks for sharing this tutorial to us. I’ll probably make some for me. 😀
This has been very helpful understanding a lot of things. I’m sure a lot of other people will agree with me.
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Here’s another fun idea. I made this bow with candy cane striped ribbon last year. This one is even quicker to create. It’s the same process, with no folding. 🙂
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cutie, really spend only one hour to make a bow, thanks
Could you post the tutorial on how you made the striped ribbon bow? THANKS! <3
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I made some they are awesomeee and i love your blog/website and i want to post a pic of my bow but i dont know how
i used hot glue instead of sewing cuz i suck at sewing
I just stumbled upon this and I can’t stop making bows! Thanks for this tutorial, it’s super cute and easy to follow.
thank you i made one it is so lovely
Beautiful! I will try them on my blog, kisses sweet girl!
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This is awesome–thanks so much! I am not a sewer so this was the perfect tutorial!! I made the cutest little bow tie for my little boy’s halloween costume. Thanks again!!
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These are so cute!!! I LOVE the red dress you’re wearing too!!!
I love making hair bows out of fabric! Too cute and thanks for the tutorial!
Could you give some sort of measurements of this sized bow? It would really help- thanks!
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Super cute! Gotta try this sometime.
JUST what I have been looking for! Thank you! So adorable!
Awesome hair bows. I like all these bows. This tutorial is very helpful to me in my project. I like this different colors bows with unique designs and patterns.
This is how I do my hair bows and they come out perfect http://howtofixstuff.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-make-hair-bows.html
Thanks for sharing these cool ideas , keep sharing like this !
Nice hair bows. I never see such amazing bows before. It’s colors are very attractive.
really nice,,
i am gonna try these for my darling baby’s headbands…
Now that my hair can be made into a top knot, I’m so excited to make tiny bow clips to accessorize. Thanks for the tutorial.
Thanks so much Elsie! I love these, and Tiana adores making them too.
Tashi xo
Ohh can’t wait to make these <3 gonna be very excited for tomorrow <3 they look lovely
the zebra one is adorable… I am doing this with my mom for our store. thank you so much for the help it was a pleasure making these.. <3
Super cute. I just made one and it was really easy. i barely even know how to sew and i was able to make one in less then an hour. and even better, i was able to use a really cheap bandana for my first one to try it out..and it still turned out really good c: great diy project!!
Love this DIY tutorial! <3
Check out how we did. 🙂
http://thegirlsroomonline.tumblr.com/post/25429518404/mini-ribbon-diy-nothing-screams-girly-than-a-cute
There are a number of points however which I believe would do better if you went into a little bit more detail than you have done.
Amazing!! Ive been meaning to head down to the mall and stalk up on some cute hair bows but this is brilliant!! Thank you much!!!
I can’t believe I found this site! I love things like this and those are just absolutely adorable! And I have a ton of scrap fabric I can use for it. This is just perfect. Thank you for making such an amazing site!
thanks a lot.
Seems perfect, hope I will be able to make one for my daughter.