DIY bow: a few simple decor techniques

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Bows, ruffles, ribbons and lace - ideas for decorating women's accessories, clothing and shoes are endless. This hobby begins, as a rule, in childhood, when mothers choose the cutest dresses and hairpins for their beloved daughters, and the girls, in turn, try the first design steps on their dolls, inventing outfits for them and making them themselves from woven scraps.

However, in the adult period, the skills of sewing small decor items can be very useful, because it's so nice to give your friends hairpins and rubber bands made by yourself, as well as decorate your clothes and any items in the house. The basic option is, of course, a bow. Any lace, satin ribbons, stripes of a beautiful, preferably glossy fabric with a pattern, are suitable for him. In addition, a do-it-yourself bow is a great way to pass the time and enhance your aesthetic taste. There are many variations of it, as well as methods for making it, so let's learn at least some of them together.

Luxury option

So, a big bow with your own handscan be a great decoration for a gift box. For him, we take a long ribbon of artificial silk with a width of about 2-5 cm of any color, depending on the wishes. A bow made from a soft pastel-colored material with a small pattern like peas, flowers or funny animals will look very cute. This decor is more suitable for girls, but it is better to decorate men's gifts with darker shades of fabrics without a pattern.

To make a bow with your own hands from such a ribbon, we take some hard flat base 10-15 cm wide (it can be a piece of krages or a hard envelope) and wind our ribbon on it in 8-10 rows so that its edges coincided with each other. As a result, you should get a kind of multi-layer strip. We remove it from the base and in the middle with a needle and thread we make a short horizontal seam, and then we tighten it as much as possible and tie a knot. In fact, a bow made with your own hands is almost ready. Now it remains only to spread all the layers in different directions until the shape of a ball is obtained. We attach it to the gift box with glue or tie it to a piece of the same ribbon.

Graceful bow for men's gift

If you want your surprise to look more elegant, we will make a satin bow with our own hands. This material is fragile, and if it is carelessly touched with a needle, it can be easily tightened. Therefore, for work we take thin silk threads and three types of satin ribbons: dark blue with a pattern,white 2.5-3 cm wide and one narrow, also blue, 0.5 cm wide. Such a bow is suitable for decorating a men's gift, hairpin or dress, if you attach a pin to its reverse side. So, first we fold the white ribbon in three layers, as we did in the previous method, we also sew it in the middle, tighten it and carefully straighten it up and down, the bow should be flat, 10 cm long. Then we cut out two strips 16 and 12 long from the blue wide satin cm, and from thin - two identical (20-25 cm). Both wide ribbons need to be turned into single-layer flat bows. To do this, we sew the ends, sew in the middle and attach them in turn to the blue. And to hide the seams, add a neat bow from a thin ribbon in the center and attach a button or rhinestone.