No Slip Headband Tutorial

This one is for my fabulous sister in law Kristen, however I am sure you could all use it. Remember my tutorials are for personal use only. You cannot make and sell these items. That is what I do. You can purchase them here. However you can make them for your own personal use if you like! You can view my copyright at the bottom of this page!

Supplies:

5 sticky velcro dots, the hard side.

matching ribbon that is 1/2 or 1/4 inch wide.

double sided adhesive interfacing, the thickest one you can purchase.

2 color of cordinating ribbon, 16 inches each.

fray check, hot glue, or a flame.

You will need your scissors, your iron, and your sewing machine.

Cut your interfacing so it is slightly smaller than your ribbon.

Trim the corners off of both of the sides of the interfacing.

Take your thin ribbon and cut one 2 inch piece and one 26 inch piece. Take your 2 inch piece of ribbon and iron it.

Take your two pieces of 16 inch ribbon and iron them.

Take your 2 inch ribbon and fold it in half. Place the interfacing piece inbetween the ends.

Sew into place using a zig zag stitch.

Take your 26 inch piece and cut the edges into an angle. Treat the ends of the ribbon by either burning, heat setting, using glue, or using a fray treatment.

Fold in half so one side is 5 inches longer than the other and sew onto the other end of the interfacing using a zig zag stitch.

Take one of your 12 inch pieces of ribbon and iron under the edge just barely.

Iron under the corner.

Iron under the other corner. And repeat the last three steps on the other end of the ribbon.
When you place the interfacing on the ribbon it should look like this.
Put interfacing down on the irnoning board and place ribbon on top. Iron down.

Repeat with the other color of ribbon.

Turn interfacing and attached ribbon over and put this ribbon on the top and iron on to the interfacing.

Take to your sewing machine and sew right along the edge all the way around. Make sure not to catch the ribbons hanging out of either end.

Turn over and place five sticky velcro circle like this.

And there you have it. One infant headband.

To tie it you place on your head and take the longer ribbon through the loop and tie into place in the center of your neck.

And here is a side view.

You can now slide it off and next time you want to use it slide it right back on. The velcro circles help it stay in place on your head. And it's so light weight you'll forget you are even wearing it!
This size fits infants up to children.
Aren't they just adorable. They work great on either an updo or a down do. And they are much cuter on your little girl than on my sons.
And the best part? They are machine washable.

You want to make one for your tween.

Okay...Follow the lengths and the directions above, the only change is the two ribbon pieces are 14 inches long instead of 12 inches.

Of course you do, Of course you want to make one for yourself.Follow the lengths and the directions above except for the tie ribbon is 22 inches instead of 26 inches and the 2 ribbons are 20 inches long. The only difference in directions is to only use 4 velcro dots instead of five because you probably want some volume at the top and don't want that dot interfering. Place like the picture below.

I hope you enjoy! Remember this tutorial is for PERSONAL use only. You cannot make and sell these. If you would like to purchase them please visit my shop. Thanks!

Nylon Headband Tutorial

Grab yourself a pair of NYLON tights size 6-9 month or 9-12 month and a 1 and 1/2 inch piece of ribbon at least 3/4 inch wide.

These tights are NOT the kind of tights you want to use, But they were the only ones I had not cut. You want NYLON tights that are straight down and do not have heels.

Lay your tights out flat like this...remember you DO NOT want tights with heels.

Cut the leg of right below the crotch of the tights. (pardon my language that's a raunchy word)

Cut the toe off right above the seam, and remeber you DO NOT want a heel.

Take the leg piece that you just cut, you get two from one pair of tights. Loop it together by putting one end on top of the other slightly overlapping and sew with a zig zag stitch.

Here is a close up.

Take your ribbon that is 1 1/2 inches long.

Put hot glue on one end and glue it to the center of the seam perpendicular to your sewn line.

Loop the ribbon around the inside of the band and to the other side and glue down, slightly overlapping the other end of the ribbon.

Turn the headband inside out and hide the seam in the ribbon loop.

Add your favorite barrette and you are ready to go. To add your barrette you simply hook it to the ribbon loop in the center!

Homemade Vegetable Steamer

Just wanted to add a little update to this. I wanted to point out that this is NOT a fabulous idea for steaming vegetables every time you steam them. The cost of foil would quickly add up as would the amount of garbage you send to the land field. This is meant for people in a bind with no steamer. Check out the comments. There is a great link to a steamer for cheap cheap cheap!!!

hurting by the economy? I am. And a vegetable steamer just isn't something in my budget. But, being on a calorie counting diet for my marathon steaming veges is a MUST. I came up with this alternative. And yes, I forgot to take pictures of it in action. But trust me the broccoli that it steamed was melt in your mouth delicious. Let me know if you try it out. I LOVE comments!

Grab your favorite pan, it's lid, and a roll of tin foil.

Rip off a piece of tin foil. Place about 2 inches of water in the bottom of your pan. Take your foil and place it in your pan. Push it down with your hand so it forms a bowl. Make sure all the sides of the foil stay up on the pan. Push down as far as it will let you with out making a gap on the edge of the pan. Curl over the extra foil, wrapping it on the outside of the pan. Push the lid down onto it.

I used a metal scewer and poked holes into the foil. Don't poke to many or your veges will break the foil. Poke about 10-15 holes evenly in the foil.

There you have it. Put your veges right in the foil and steam for about 5-10 minutes until your desired doneness. Place lid on while steaming. It makes delicious veges and clean up is a breeze!

Changing Your Long Sleeve Shirt into a T-Shirt

My husband came home with a shirt he couldn't pass up. The only problem was that it was long sleeve and he wanted in short sleeve. So here is a tutorial for you on how to change your long sleeve shirt into a t-shirt. Thans for the challange babe!

Lay out your long sleeve shirt so the sleeves are pulled all the way out and both layers of fabric are pulled with out bunches.

Line up the seams under the armpit on both shirts.

Place a pin at the edge of the t-shirt sleeve onto the long sleeve shirt.

Place tone pin at the top of the long sleeve shirt. These I will refer to as marking pins.

Put one more pin on each side about 1 1/4 inches below the marking pins. Repeat with second sleeve.

Cut the sleeve off slightly below the bottom set of pins.

You can now remove the bottom pins but leave in the marking pins.

Make sure the pin is only through one layer of the t-shirt. There should be two pins in each sleeve. One on each side of the sleeve.

Turn the t-shirt inside out, carefully because the mraking pins are still in.

Take one sleeve and fold the cut edge up around the sleeve until the marking pins are on the edge of the fold.

Place a pin about 1/4 of an inch above the marking pin.

Do the same with the other marking pin.

Remove the marking pin once you have pinned all around the sleeve.

Pull the sleeve and pin around the entire bottom.

Fold under the cut part of the sleeve and fold under. Pin down. You want this to be no more than one inch thick, but no less than one half inch thick.

Pin along the entire upper edge of sleeve.

This is what the inside looks like with the double pins. Repeat with other sleeve.

Both of your sleeves are cut and pinned.

Sew your first line by putting the edge of the hem half way under the presser foot. You don't want to sew with it on the the edge. Look at picture for example, while you sew remember to slightly pull on the fabric so the thread will sctretch with it and not snap.

Remove the pins.

Sew the second line by keeping your already sewn line on the outside edge of your presser foot. Repeat with other sleeve.

Turn the shirt back right side out. This is what the hem looks like that you just sewed.

And there you have it a t-shirt!

(don't mind the husbands goofy face. He wasn't thrilled to be the model of his t-shirt.)