Fabric Headband

                                      
          Hello bloggy friends! Here is a fun little fabric headband I made for our little miss, its so super easy. It's the perfect project to help use up some small amounts of scraps laying around. You can whip up a bunch of these beauties in no time!

Here's what you will need...
I used two strips of material both measured 4" wide and 16" long
(I would measure your little ones head though to make sure on size. You want the fabric to wrap around her head and go a little past her ears.)
5"of elastic. I use the 1/4" soft stretch.
2 pieces of rick rack measuring 16" long.

                 Cut your material and iron the seams over. (I iron because I am totally lazy and hate to pin)

       Now, I guess I have to let you in on my dirty little secret! I temporailly glue my rick rack down! Every time I use to pin the rick rack it took forever to get it "just so". Then, it always ended up shifting on me when I sewed it down somehow. It wasn't very fun. 

      So, I figured this good 'ol glue stick would do the trick, and it really does work like magic everytime. If you do this apply the glue stick to the rick rack not the material. It helps hold it better. The glue dries pretty quick, but I found that the scotch glue stick seems to give me a few extra minutes of hold time so I can get it sewn up before it dries.  Once you have them temporally glued down, add the other peice of fabric on top of the fabric with the rick rack.

                     Tuck the ends in and pin those. Then sew up the right and left sides of the headband.

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Finally, slide the elastic in the ends that you tucked in and sew the elastic down.

                                                 Taa Daa, a new headband for you little miss!

This was a fun and quick little project! Happy Sewing.

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