Fabric Flower Headband

I am in LOVE with the fabric flowers that are on everything! I've tried a few different ways of making them, and I like this way the best!

Here's what you do...

• Find your fabric and cut it 8"-10" long & 3" wide. These measurements don't have to be exact. I've used scraps that were not 3" wide throughout and it still works fine!!
• Make sure your glue gun is plugged in and ready to go before you proceed!!
• Fold your fabric in half (hotdog style) and start twisting it at one end.
• Twist and wrap the fabric around until you've got a 2-3" circle/flower, or until you've reached the size you wanted.
• Glue the remaining length of fabric underneath the flower.
• Now you can attach it to an alligator clip, barrette, brooch, headband, whatever!
• I bought a package of black elastic headbands from the dollar store that have worked really well.
• If you want more than one flower on your headband, glue them down, side by side, on a piece of coordinating fabric.
• Cut around the flowers. Glue the whole thing to your headband. Glue another piece of fabric, sandwiching the headband. Cut around the flowers again.
• Glue on rhinestones, pearls, lace, buttons, whatever you can find to embellish your flower.
• And there you have it! I love that I can make these to match literally anything N is wearing!! She wore the headband pictured to her 3 year photo shoot this morning!

Reversible Sundress/Shirt

This is the first piece of clothing I attempted to make my daughter. I found the tutorial at From an Igloo. The tutorial is super easy to understand and very clear! I think I made about four of these this summer!! Now that it's gotten cooler, I stick a long sleeved tee underneath {like the one below Target } and add some jeans or leggings and boots and she's golden!

To make the matching headband, I traced one we already had. I ended up cutting two pieces of fabric (one of each shown in the dresses above) that were about 1" wide at each end and 2" wide in the middle. The pieces were about 14.5" long. I sewed the long sides together, right sides together, and the turned it right side out. I sewed an edge around the whole thing, tucking in the ends and also adding a piece of elastic {4"long} in the ends. I like that you can easily stick a flower clip on the top to make more of a statement or leave it plain and functional!