Pretty MIY (make-it-yourself)

Remember those headbands form girl's night? Well, I'm gonna tell you how to make them so you too can have a lovely head adornment.

What you'll need:

• various fabrics, I like to use chiffon, tulle, lace, and/or silk, basically anything gauzy and beautiful will work
• a headband
• scissors, needle, thread
• extra special cute things like pearls, beads, buttons, a bow, a brooch (this is optional)

First, cut your chosen fabric into little squares

Unless you want something really big and gaudy, cut the squares 1 1/2- 2 inches in size, and don't be OCD about this, trust me, variance is GREAT.

Here comes the variance again. Cut a plethora of squares from your various fabrics, and round the corners of some, while leaving others hard-edged. I like to round off my chiffon and silks and keep my lace and tulle hard-edged.



Take your first square and fold it in half to make a triangle.

Fold it in half again.

Then using your needle and thread, tack it to your headband (for those of you unacquainted with sewing terms, this simply means stitch it on).

There are some tricks to this:

1. Be sure that your needle runs through all the folds of your little "flower", or else it will come undone.

2. Put on your headband and decide where the first flower should go before sewing it on. You don't want it on the top of your head, or hidden by your ear.

Layer your fabrics on down the headband, alternating placement from left, middle, and right. Alternating the placement will give it a fuller look (i.e. make it cuter!!)

Then look! You've made a cute headband and it was so easy!!

If you'd like to, throw some pearls or buttons or beads or whatever on there to really fancy it up, kinda like the one I made on girl's night.

Now go out there and wear it!! You'll make everyone jealous, especially when you tell them you made it yourself.