Dare to Make It: Holiday
How to Make Flower Hairpins for the Holidays!
November 27th, 2008 in patterns & designs, fashion, jewelry making
kayte terry, contributor
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These quick and inexpensive hairpins make perfect gifts for the ladies on your list.
Photo: Kayte Terry
If you pay any attention to the trends, hair accessories are still hot, hot, hot. And they make great holiday gifts.
This year has been hard on me (and everyone else!) financially, so I have been challenging myself to make holiday projects that use up some of my scraps and crafty bits. I was talking to a few other crafty ladies recently, and we all admitted that we don't really need to buy new craft supplies, well, ever, so I am trying to be creative with what I have. This is an easy and inexpensive project that's sure to please lots of ladies on your holiday gift list.
What you'll need:
- Small scraps of fabric
- Water-soluble fabric pen
- Fabric scissors
- Thread and sharps needle
- Pom-pom, needle-felted ball, sequin, or bead for the flower center
- E600 or other permanent adhesive
- Bobby pin
- Paint chips
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A spool of thread is a perfect template for a small circle. |
1. Using a spool of thread as your circle template, trace circles onto fabric with a water-soluble fabric pen. You are going to want 14 circles per flower.
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I like to alternate patterns and solids in my fabric stacks so the different patterns don't get too overwhelming. |
2. Stack the fabric circles in piles of 14. The stacks shouldn't be perfect so that little bits of the various patterns peak out.
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Note that there is a solid blue fabric under the top fabric. |
3. Cut just the top circle so that it looks kind of like a lily pad or a bubbly C shape, and lay it back on top of the stack.
4. Thread a needle and knot the end. Bring the needle up through the bottom of the stack in the center of the circles. Bring the the needle back down to the bottom of the fabric stack, making a small stitch. Repeat making another stitch that is perpendicular to the first, making a small X of stitches.
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Pull gently on your thread to gather your stitches a bit. |
Pull gently on the thread from the back to gather as shown.
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Bring your needle through the back few layers of the fabric. |
5. Fold over the stack right sides together, make a few small stitches through a few layers of fabric, and knot.
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This is what your fabric stacks should look like. |
6. Fluff up the fabric stacks a bit.
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Get creative with your flower centers! Beads, buttons, pom-poms, and sequins all look great. Use what you have! |
7. Sew a bead, button, sequin, or pom-pom to the center of the flower. For a tutorial on making little needle-felted balls, see my post on my holiday centerpiece.
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Here are a few different options for flower centers. |
8. Apply a small dot of jewelry glue to the back of the flowers and affix a bobby pin. Let dry.
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Colorful paint chips are a playful and quirky way to display gifted hairpins. |
9. For a cute and colorful way to package these hairpins as gifts, I cut paint chips in half and slid two hairpins onto the chips.
After you make this project, show off your work to other members!
Post your project in the gallery
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