Sewing Tutorial: Ruffled Flower Corsage HeadBand
May 3, 2010 |
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It is May, the month for mother’s day celebration… I am not going to do anything for myself, instead, I am making some pretty things for the 2 most important persons in my life who call me “Mummy”, whom who live my life to the fullest ever.
The first project for this month is the 3 layers ruffled flower / corsage headband for my daughter. I made them from a left over interlock jersey 3/4″ strips from the Welcome home rag rug. Just love the pink and blue, can’t stop myself for not making a darling headband out of them for my lovely daughter.
This Ruffled Flower can be detached from the headband and use as a brooch individually. It can be a hand corsage too if wear on the wrist [the 3rd photos in the photo browser above]. The headband can be put on without the flower for a simpler style.
Basically, you can substitute the materials I used with others to create your own style.
3 Layers Ruffled Flower / Corsage BroochMaterial::
1. 3/4″ Pink jersey strips, 1.5′ length
2. 3/4″ Blue jersey strips, 2′ length
3. 2″ Lace, 1′ length
4. 1.5″ Wooden button
5. Brooch pin
6. 1″ dia. of round felt
Set your sewing machine to the biggest stitch spacing, sew a straight line of 1/4″ from the edge along the strip.If you don’t have a sewing machine, you can tack stitch with 1/8″ spacing.
Pull either the top or the bottom thread slowly to create gathers until you get the pink strip to 4″ length and blue to 7″. Tie the thread so that it is fixed to the length you want. Spread the gathers evenly.
Pull the thread of the lace until it gathers all the way to its maximum. Tie the thread.
Sew both ends for each strip together respectively to make 3 circles of ruffles as shown.
Place the blue ruffles on top of the ruffled lace. Pin to secure.Hand sew the blue ruffles to the lace.
Place the pink ruffles on top of them, pin to secure and sew it on.
Sew the wooden button at the center.
Sew the brooch to the round felt. Sew the felt with brooch pin onto the reverse of the corsage.
This is how the 3 layers ruffled flower brooch or corsage looks. 
Elastic Lace HeadbandMaterial:
1. 1″ lace, 2′ length
2. Elastic thread
3. Tapestry needle
Sew both ends together.Weave a few rows of elastic thread along the spaces within the lace. Gather the headband to about 1′ length in circular.
Tie the elastic thread ends and hide in the lace.
Attach the corsage to the headband by pinning it on to make a Ruffled Flower Headband.
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Love this. It will be something I can make for my grandaughters.
You are great Mommy! Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy mother’s day to you too
Me encanto el corsage sobre todo por lo facil y rapido para realizarlo.
Asi puedo hacer varios para obsequiar a las mamis.
Muchas gracias.
Besitos.:)
Translation (by Google):
I loved the corsage especially as easy and fast to do it.
So I can make several to give to the moms.
Thank you very much.
Besitos.:)
Exactly, it is a quick project, perhaps you can make a few in an hour.
Aww, this is so, so pretty! I love this headband. Thanks so much for the how-to, I’ll be linking.