How to Make Hair Bands With Cloth

Don't you detest trying to decide how to set up your hair when you're on vacation, or during warm summer weather? I designed these DIY Material headbands using Liberty of London Fabric to help me tame my pilus when I'm traveling. This headband tutorial shows you how to make a textile headband and does not crave elastic. If y'all like this sewing tutorial you may too like this Liberty T-Shirt Sewing Project and these cute printables that yous tin attach to pilus ties to make a sweet gift.

DIY Fabric Headband Sewing Pattern on polkadotchair.com

A few years ago, my oldest daughter had the opportunity to written report abroad in London, once I constitute out she was going I decided that I was absolutely going to pick her upwardly. The last time I was in London was in 1997, coincidentally when Princess Diana passed away.

Table of Contents

How to Make Cloth Headbands
Material Headbands Supplies
DIY Headband Construction Steps
FAQ about the Headbands

I had been wanting to get back always since I left. I loved England on that offset trip about xx years ago and I loved information technology, even more than, when I visited that summer. Today, I idea I'd share with y'all a simple sewing project that I made to have with me on the trip.

How to Make Fabric Headbands

Whenever I travel I get stuck betwixt, wanting to look nice and dressing practically enough for walking around a city all day. I default to my standard ponytail hairstyle when I travel and I was trying not to exercise that as much. I love headbands, but they don't stay on my caput for some reason (I must have an oddly shaped head).

A few years ago I bought a fabric headband that was glued to a skinny headband and it stayed on my head all day and didn't give me a headache.

The morning I left for the trip (yeah, genius timing I know) I saturday downwards and made 2 headbands. So when I say this is a elementary sewing projection, I'm not kidding. It's fast.

I chose two of my favorite Liberty of London prints (the i on the right is leftover from my Liberty t-shirt project) that I thought would match some of the clothing I had packed for the trip.

Cloth Headbands Supplies

14″ x 6″ piece of lightweight cotton fabric. I used Liberty Lawn, but you lot could use a Voile as well or simple cotton fabric.

Skinny headband

Hot Glue & Hot Glue Gun

Sewing Machine

DIY Headband Construction Steps

I've added a fun illustration above for you! And then reference it as necessary.

Step 1:

Fold the fabric in half lengthwise, right sides facing, sew along the long edge with a ¼″ seam allowance.

Stride Two:

Plow correct side out and printing with the seam in the center.

Stride Three:

Run a gathering run up along both ends, pull up on the gathering stitches to gather the material.

Stride 4:

Cut two pieces of textile to 2″ 10 2″. Fold under two of the raw edges ¼″ towards the incorrect side of the cloth.

Press

Step Five:

Starting at the eye and working out, gum the cloth to the purchased headband.

Step Six:

With ane of the folded edges of the textile flush with the ends of the headband, hot mucilage the incorrect side of the folded ii×two piece to the bottom of the headband.

Wrap the raw edges of the cloth in, and secure in place using hot glue.

That's it!!

Easy peasy huh!! I've worn them several times over the years and have it on my "listing" to brand a few more to have on paw this summer.

and aye, I wore them in London and they came in VERY handy!

FAQ about the Headbands

Exercise they stay on your head?

Yes, I have found they stay on my head and the skinny headband is more comfy for me to article of clothing than the wider headband.

Can yous Utilize Knit Fabric?

Personally, I would non use knit cloth. But information technology won't matter because the material is not what holds the headband on your head it'southward the skinny plastic headband that is glued to the material.

Tin you add a Button?

Many of you are using this tutorial and so that information technology can be worn with a face up mask. If you want to do that then yes, y'all can add together a large push to the side. To brand sure it'due south secure, I would sew some of the stitches attaching the push button over the summit of the skinny plastic headband on the inside. So y'all will "catch" the plastic headband as you lot sew on the button.

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