How to Make a Basic Hair Bow by Pink Poodle Bows

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Free PDF Sewing Pattern, Fabric Bow Holder

This is our latest free tutorial. It is a free PDF sewing pattern that gives detailed instructions and the necessary pattern pieces. Click on the link below to download this pattern.  Fabric Bow Holder Unfortunately the site that we use to provide our free PDF tutorials requires us to sell the pattern for 1 cent. Sorry, this is an issue that we are trying to resolve. 

How to Make a Fabric Flower Free

I found a few tutorials on how to make this type of flower, but most of them required a paper pattern where you had to cut out the flower using the pattern, and I wanted something quick and easy.  Here is the quick version.

Materials needed:  glue gun, glue sticks, alligator clip or any other type of clip, fabric remnants, scissors, and something to glue them onto, such as a piece of felt.

First, cut your fabric remnants. You will need four 3"x3" pieces for the bottom layer, four 2.5"x2.5" for the middle layer, and four 2"x2" pieces for the top layer.

Cut your felt or whatever you are using into a circle. I used a piece about 2" wide.

Start with the bottom layer and fold it in half, wrong sides of fabric together.

Then fold it in half again.

Now fold it diagonally, and you are going to cut the raw ends the way you would if you were making a paper heart.

Open it up and it should look like a heart.  Repeat for the other three pieces.  Glue them onto the circle base that you made.

 

Repeat the folding and cutting steps with the middle pieces of fabric.  Stagger these when gluing them on.

Repeat all steps for the top layer, glue a clip on to the back and you are done! You can put something in the middle or leave it as is.

 

Mouse Ears Headband Free Tutorial

I've been having so much fun getting things ready for our trip to Disneyland!  I made my daughter  a little outfit to wear on the first day with some socks to go with it as well- you can find the tutorial to make these socks in my tutorials section.  I used my Madison and ruffle bottom pants patterns to make this outfit. I just cropped them both to make them as a shirt and capri set. Now... on to the ears!

I decided that I was going to make some "mouse ears" for her to wear on the way up.  I bought some black felt that had a self-stick side and found some other items in my craft tub to use: black ribbon, red polka dot ribbon, a headband, glue sticks, glue gun, string, scissors and a lighter.

I made myself a template for my mouse ears by just making a circle and added a rectangle to the bottom of the circle to use to attach it to the headband.

Here is a template if you need it. I should about 3" across.

mouse ears template

First, I cut out my template, then I traced it onto the back of the felt paper four times.

Next, I cut out the four circles and peeled the paper backing and cut off the circle part and left the rectangles with the paper backing because I don't want those parts to stick together.

I carefully placed one of the ears on top of the other. They will be hard to remove from each other so try to make sure they are even the first time!

Modeling hair bows on a cold day

We are stuck inside the house today because it is too cold to go outside and we have had on and off rain, so I decided to have my 3 year old "A" model some of the bows from the tutorials I made! lol.  She was not thrilled about this, but after a little convincing (cookie)  she said ok. ;)

I'm on the countdown now for school to be out!  Only 14 more days and then summer vacation! Yeah!  We all need that break, my students and myself! I'm hoping to get a "how to make a diaper wipe cover" tutorial up soon since I've had some request for that and some other fun goodies!  Become a follower to get the updates on the latest tutorials I put up...and let me know anything else you would like to see! :)



 

Free Tutorial Adding Layers to a Hair Bow

There are other ways to add layers to your bow, this is how I do it because I'm too lazy to sew them together! You will first need to make your "figure 8" bows.  Refer to the tutorial on how to make a figure 8 bow on how to do this, then come back to this tutorial.

 To add your layers to your bow, you first need to think about what you would like it to look like.  You want to have coordinating colors, different sizes of ribbon and prints to add interest, and you can even add tulle or marabou and/or feathers.   The combinations are endless!  For this tutorial, I am going to make this blue bow, with two coordinating ribbons, blue marabou, and a large rhinestone.  I will be attaching it to a stretchy headband as well.

Free Tutorial How To Make a Figure 8 hair Bow

There are other ways to make this bow, this is how I do it

What you will need:

How To Make a Ballerina Bow Free Tutorial

What you will need:

How To Make a Basic Hair Bow Free tutorial

There are many ways how to make your basic bow, this is how I do it.

Here are the materials you will need to get started:

Ribbon (I am using a 5/8"width ribbon for this tutorial but you can use any size), string, hot glue gun, hot glue sticks, a lighter, scissors, alligator clips (you can find these metal single prong clips at a beauty supply store) control clips (also at a beauty supply store and usually come in a pack of 6)

 1. Cut your ribbon about 12" long or your desired length.

 2.  Fold it in half and then fold it in half again.