How to Make Headbands
A headband goes with any type of attire, like formal, casual, semi-formal, dresses, pants, etc. There are many ways on how to make headbands, as you can either make them or simply tie a ribbon around your hair to make it look pretty. Anything that can hold your hair back from your forehead can prove as a headband, so women usually come up with many creative ways to do this. There are some headbands which are even woven, or made with the crochet, as they look very neat as well as, and elastic for a better grip on the head. There are soft headbands, which are made usually for baby girls to make them look adorable with headbands matching their baby clothes. There are a few methods mentioned in the coming up paragraphs, so read on to find out.
Making Cute Headbands
Making headbands is a very easy job, since all you have to do is use a stretchy lace, with a decorative top like a bow or a flower. These ribbons can be made into artificial flowers as well as bows, which are very easy to make and stuck or stitched, to the stretchy lace. These laces come in a variety of colors and designs, thus you can co-ordinate the look of your headband with the designs used on top of them. Different ways involve various material and cloth of your choice and following one common procedure, which is mentioned below. To give the headbands a more personal touch various additional toppings can attached as per your choice. Making braided headbands is also a work of art and there are many ways to make these beautiful patterns.
Things You Will Need
- Lace
- Colored ready-made flowers or ribbon pearls
- Needle
- Thread
- Hot Glue
- To start, measure the lace around the head, to find out the length of the headband.
- With colored threads, co-ordinate with the flowers and the pearls, stitch them to the upper part of the headband, in the center or, at the sides.
- If you think stitching will be a problem, you can stick these with the help of the hot glue, which is equally durable.
- Once they are fixed to the headband, attach the two loose ends of the lace to close the headband. You can adjust it round the head first and then stitch the two ends, making it sure that the band fits and is not too tight.
- You can follow the same procedure to make these types of headbands as well. You can follow some ribbon flower instructions to make these tiny roses, which you can attach in the headbands.
- These flowers can be either attached to an elastic headband, a cloth headband or even a ribbon headband. You have to color co-ordinate these flowers with the bands you want to attach them on.
- Bows are more preferred to flower headbands and thus, making them is easier.
- Also, bows can be made as a single one, or a bunch of many, by using different colored ribbons. Thus, this is another great design to make these wonderful looking attractive hair accessories which can be used along with various clothes.
- Using the various types of knots which are present, you can come up with other designs for how to make ribbon headbands, by making flowers and bows with them. Simply tying a ribbon around the head, also makes the headband look very natural and attractive.
