This is a How To for the little bow featured on the cushion tutorial from my blog on Sunday. I'm not sure if this is the technical way to make a bow, but this is my solution. It is a great way to use up little scraps of fabric and is so simple to make, you will be wanting to add bows to everything!
You will need:
2 rectangles of fabric measuring approx 4cm x 8cm
2 rectangles of fabric measuring approx 2cm x 4cm
fabric pen
needle
matching cotton
pins
scissors
Lets get making:
1. Cut fabrics to size and pin rectangles together with right sides facing.
2. Draw a rough sewing guide line around both rectangles, leaving a 1cm seam allowance on the larger and a 0.5cm seam allowance on the smaller of the two rectangles.
3. Sew along this line using a matching thread, leaving a space un sewn on each, so that both rectangles can be turned inside out. (This is indicated by double ended arrows in the picture above.)
4. Clip the corners before turning inside out (or right way around.) Iron both pieces.
5. Fold the fabric in half and fold each of those halves in half again, so that you have gathered the middle of the fabric.
6. Pop a little stitch in the back of the bow to hold it in shape, but don't pull too tight!
7. Wrap the smaller piece of material around the centre of the bow, making sure that your rough, un sewn end is on the inside.
8. Sew a little row of stitches to hold this smaller piece of fabric together, but don't sew it to the larger piece of fabric just yet. You want it to be a tube which moves freely over the bow. This is so when you turn it over and come to attach it to something, you can adjust it and plump the bow, making sure it is even and not looking sad and wonky!
9. Pin this to your cushion front and ladder stitch (invisible stitch) into place, using a matching thread.
You can change the appearance of the bow by simply altering the measurements to make a long skinny bow or a wider bow with lots of pleats. Make a huge bow or a teeny tiny bow brooch.
Try changing the colours of the bow for a mix and match effect or the backing fabric on which it sits, to make it stand out more, or nearly disappear.
Can you spot the bow on this one?
What would you add these bows to? I think they would look sweet on an Alice band (simply glue gunned into place.) On a bracelet made from a strip of fabric and fastened with a little popper. Or maybe put onto a clip and attached to a Birthday gift, as a kind of fancy homemade gift wrap, where part of the gift wrap is actually the gift?
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