She Gets a Little Crafty

Now and then I feel a little crafty.

WAY back in November my mom came over and we spent a few days making hair pretties.

I kept promising y'all a tutorial, but I totally forgot about it until I was gathering cute PINK things for my Pinktastic Swaptastic partner.

I knew I had made some little hair clippies that I wanted to send to Impulsive Addict's little girl.

So now that it is fresh in my mind I decided to finally post a few pictures and a few short tutorials.

My mom has this cool cutter thingy (I know so specific) that cuts out perfect circles.

So we started by getting some cool silky and sheer fabrics that went together and cut them into circles.

You can totally do this by hand, they do not need to be perfect.

I used 3 different sizes for this one and 2 different fabrics.
My middle size circle was made from silky fabric and in order to get rid of any frayed edges and to curl it a little i held it over a candle.
as you can see it burns the edges a little man makes them curl up
depending on how sheer your fabric is will help you decide how close to the flame you want to get. The sheer fabric gets hot quick so keeping it well above the flame and letting it slowly heat up is best and give you the most control.
Once I had my circles burned and curled it was time to assemble them into a flower.

I placed them on top of each other and once I had then where I wanted them I stitched a little X through them all and knotted the thread on the back.

Then I glued a little gem to cover up the thread X.

Then i cut a little piece of felt clipped my little barrette to it and hot clued it to the flower.

This project was unbelievably easy. We made a ton of these and sold them before Christmas.

Next up is my attempt to make a cute headband using fabric yo yos.

I found a GREAT fabric yo yo tutorial here...I am too lazy to make my own tutorial.

And her pictures are amazing.

Mine. Are. Not.

So make your yo yos from various fabrics that all kind of go together.

This one is made up of pinks, brown and white.

Start by assembling your yo yos on a piece of felt.

Add more until you get a design that you like
Then hot glue them all to the felt.
Turn the felt over and cut off all of the extra.
Cut another strip if felt and glue the two together on a head band.

It's a good idea to put the head band on before gluing and see where the yo yos are best placed.
I went back and added some buttons and smaller yo yos but decided it is better and easier to sew on buttons before assembling on the felt.
And here ya go, the finished product! Every time I wear any of my yo yo headbands I get tons of compliments.

So I wear them a lot. I am an attention whore like that.

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