How to make a headband with your own hands?

Today, products from the category of handmade made more and more popular and become a stylish addition to any image. This is especially true for accessories. Therefore, a headband made by yourself will not only meet all individual wishes, but will also attract the admiring glances of others.

The idea to get an original and beautiful accessory on your head can be inspired by inspiration or arise when you look at a picture in a fashion magazine or a photo of your girlfriend. Before embarking on the construction of a bandage, you should:

• Adequately evaluate their strength and creativity. For those who are not particularly friendly with the world of art, it is better to select detailed descriptions for making the accessory in the simplest ways or to seek help from a needlewoman who will make the accessory to order. Often, manual work is very painstaking, and not everyone has the patience for this.
• Choose the material that suits your taste for the base of the dressing - whether it will be sewn or knitted and from what. The imagination of handmade masters is unlimited, which allows you to choose the constituent basics from a huge amount of materials.
• In addition, you should carefully consider the decor - its appearance and components should reflect the internal state of the hostess, without removing her from the comfort zone. Dressing the bandage should also be appropriate for its purpose. If the accessory is for special occasions or photo shoots, then the decor can be plentiful and bright, and for sports dressings any decoration may be superfluous.
• For clarity, it is recommended to create a sketch of the future product, which will help to adhere to the intended sizes and other details when working.
• And finally, you should make a list of all the necessary tools and parts for creating an accessory so as not to forget anything in the store. Do not forget about the ways of fixing the decor: for sewn beads you need threads with a needle, for rhinestones - glue.

When choosing a material for making an accessory, you need to focus on your skills.

Knitters will prefer yarn products of different compositions. This bandage is suitable for the cold season and will not only decorate its owner, but also warm. Using a hook or knitting needles, you can create original and cute patterns, so such products do not need a rich decor, just pick a beautiful brooch. One of the trending patterns among knitted accessories can be called a turban-type bandage.

Those who have mastered the sewing machine can show their imagination and choose any fabric. Bandages can be made of cotton for hot days, often use denim. In addition, you can use knitwear and lace, and some manage to cleverly remake old things and create real masterpieces.

An unusual decoration can be obtained by attaching flowers, rhinestones and beads to embroidered or fabric-made fabrics. It will not take a lot of time to make such an accessory.

As we see, any yarn or fabric is suitable for creating a handmade accessory. If you show your imagination and complement the product with decor with a sense of style, you get a pretty little thing.

Simplicity is in vogue today, so it is not necessary to complete sewing and sewing courses to make head jewelry. Several simple and understandable techniques that are used in needlework, will help to make an exclusive accessory even for beginners.

The bandage with the unusual name of Solokha got its name due to the film adaptation of Gogol's stories. A heroine with this name wore a scarf on her head with a bow tied at the crown. Today, such a model is popular in retro style, and is also suitable for courageous girls to create a playful or romantic image.

Sewing such an accessory will not be difficult, some fashionistas construct a stylish accessory from a scarf. To sew an accessory, you will need a piece of fabric with a length of about 80 cm, each determines the width for himself. To keep the bow in shape, a wire or a synthetic winterizer safe for children is inserted into the product.

Moms of daughters often create dressings for themselves and for girls in the style of "family bow". Identical accessories will be an excellent attribute for photo shoots, which often use dressings for newborn girls.

For the smallest, it is better to choose soft materials that will not damage the delicate skin of newborns. You can use old clothes and sew such a product from a T-shirt. Two pieces of fabric must be stretched and processed along the edges. One part is used as the bandage itself, and as a decoration, a flower from the second cut of fabric is suitable. The strip is neatly twisted and fixed on one side, forming a bud.

For older girls and girls, products decorated with flowers from foamiran or felt are suitable. To create a decor, you can take ready-made patterns or come up with the form itself. Usually, for this, the petals are cut out and by overlaying the petals, the finished flowers are laid out.

Headbands with flowers using the kanzashi technique will be a good option for decorating your head. The petals of the future flower, composed of satin ribbons, are interconnected by means of a needle with a thread, glue or flame. Rhinestones, beads or beautiful cabochons are used as the core.

If a girl wants to make a sports bandage or a home accessory for the head, then it is worth choosing practical and durable materials. It can be a terry or fleece wide bandage.

To complement a sporty casual look with jeans, you can make a denim bandage. To sew such an accessory, you will need a small and large rectangle of fabric, as well as an elastic band.

Since the material is dense and non-stretching, an elastic band should be inserted into the smaller of the two fabric sections. You can decorate the finished product with a cute bow or jeans flower.

If a fashionista wants to decorate her hairstyle with an unusual accessory, then you can build it without sewing and knitting.

Often girls create hats from a scarf. Such a jewelry for the head will be the highlight of the female image. With the help of a wardrobe item that has long since become non-grandmother's, you can tie an Arabic bandage, a turban or a turban, collect hair in a tail or braid, leave a long end behind, or simply tie around the circumference of the head.

In addition to the scarf, many fashionistas create magnificent hats from a scarf or scarf. A very long scarf or kerchief can be left hanging over the back or originally tied in the front. The ends of the product can be woven into the hairstyle or seasoned.

A headband made of bandana will become a bright accent of the image and add impertinence to it. Using various methods of tying it, you can make an original bow in the style of casual or rock, in addition, bandanas are a favorite element in the images of many rappers.

Let's consider in more detail how to create the most popular and fashionable jewelry on your head:

• Decorated with rhinestones turban made of combined materials. This will require: two pieces of fabric 65 cm long and 30 cm wide (an excellent combination will be knitwear and a stretching satin), threads, scissors, pins, rhinestones for decoration. First you need to sew two dressings from the taken fabric. Fold each cut in half with the front side inward and sew the product along the length, leaving small allowances. Then iron the seam. After that, stretch one end of the dressing inside to the other end and sew them, leaving a small distance for turning out. Then turn out the product and sew up the left area. Then lay out the two stitched elements in the form of circles and thread one part into another. It turns out that the two circles joined together and formed a turban. The places of interweaving of the two parts should be fixed manually with threads, and the front of the dressing should be decorated with rhinestones.

• Headband with ethnic motifs and a decoration in the form of a large bow. In addition to tools for sewing and printed fabric, you will need an elastic tape and non-woven fabric. According to the principle of the previous model, it is necessary to sew a bandage 32 cm wide and longer than the girth of the head by 3 cm. Do not sew up the small opening for twisting and put in an elastic band so that the bandage is slightly gathered. Sew the tape and seam bandages. As a jumper, take a piece of fabric 11 x 9 cm, and for bows - 2 cuts 24 x 16 and 28 x 16 cm. For three elements, cut doubles from non-woven fabric. Fold all the parts in half with the front side inwards and sew them separately, leaving allowances. Remove all parts, fold the jumper in half and close the seam on the bandage. Sew on the inside of the product. Fold the bow blanks in width, pick them up on one side and sew them together. Then fold the resulting elements together diagonally and sew to the inside in the area of ​​the jumper.

• Solokha with flexible edges. It is necessary to take a piece of fabric (for example, silk) 80 cm long and 15 cm wide, millimeter wire 75 cm long, threads, wire cutters and round-nose pliers. A strip of fabric must be folded in half with the front side inward and the ends made oblique or triangular. Sew the bandage, leaving a small opening in the middle for turning out and turning the product. In order for the wire not to break through the fabric, you need to round its ends with round-nose pliers.Then thread the wire inward and fix it with a thread into the obtained loops. Sew a hole. Due to the wire, such a product has a universal size and holds its shape well.

The second production method can be seen in the following video: