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by CHERI on May 21, 2010

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We have a sweet guest blogger this morning, who has a great blog

and

she is going to share a tutorial for this lovely piece.

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If you have never been to her blog–you are missing out.

I am going to turn the floor over to Jill so I can put up the Winner Post of the DIY Club inc party.

Hello It’s So Very Cheri readers! I’m honored to be here. I always
love seeing what Cheri has come up with, she really is so creative, but you all
already know that!

Well let me introduce myself. I am Jill. Twenty-something, mother of one
cute baby boy, and wife to one cute big boy 🙂

I blog over at Women Who Do It All and I
would love for you to stop by and visit me! I will be hosting a Cricut giveaway as soon as I reach 2,500
followers so come help us get there. I also host a new giveaway every
Monday and a linky party with prizes
every Wednesday– come join in the fun!

Women Who Do It All has a little
of everything! Crafts, tutorials, giveaways, DIY projects, recipes, fashion, motherhood, fitness and more. Here are a few of my recent
tutorials:

But enough about me, let’s get into the project I have for you today. I have
put together a tutorial for this sweet little headband here:

Supplies:

– The sewing machine is only used for sewing the lace together in the back, so that
could easily be done by hand if you don’t have a sewing machine.

-a sewing needle

-4 inches beige tulle

-4 inches brown tulle

-4 inches off-white lace

-brown stretchy lace ribbon

-scrap felt

-5 off-white pearl buttons

-brown thread

-a hot glue gun

These supplies cost me less than $10!

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Steps:

1) Measure around your head (where the headband would go). Mine was 21 1/2
inches, but you’ll want to find your own measurement so it fits just right.
Then add one inch to that for a seam allowance. So I cut my lace ribbon 22 1/2
inches long.

2) Fold it in half and sew it together using a 1/2 inch seam allowance. I went
back and forth a couple times just to make sure it was secure. Set the
headband aside and lets whip out those flowers now.

3) I started with my beige tulle flowers. Cut out circles of
different sizes and stack them from largest to smallest. They definitely don’t
have to be perfect circles. Keep making circles until you’ve used all of your
tulle.

4) Now it’s time to sew that little stack of tulle into a flower. Fold it in
half and stick your threaded needle through. Then carefully fold it in half
the other way and stick your needle through that way. It will make a little
x.

5) Your flower should be pretty secure now. Thread on one pearl bead.

6) Grasp the bottom of your flower and work it a little until you
achieve the shape you want. Then thread your needle through a few times in
different places to secure it. I found on my second flower that you can even
wrap the thread around the bottom a couple times to keep it in place and then sew
through it a couple times. It may look a little messy down there but that
doesn’t matter because no one will see that part 🙂 Tie the ends of the thread
together a few times to secure and trim off excess thread.

7) You have one flower complete! Next I did my brown tulle flower. I
knew I wanted it to be a bit smaller so I cut smaller circles and I only used
about 3 of the 4 inches I had cut. Other than that- exact same
process!

8) Now it’s time to make your lace flower. I wanted this one to be a little
bit bigger than the beige tulle flower so I cut my circles accordingly. I
didn’t need to use all of the lace because it is much thicker than the tulle, but I
used most of it.

9) I used the same exact process for this flower but I threaded on three pearl beads
instead of one and I didn’t bunch it quite as tightly because I wanted this one to
have a more open look.

10) Trim the edges of your flowers if desired. I did a little trimming to make
sure they looked just how I wanted.

11) Arrange your flowers on a piece of felt. Once you
achieve the formation you like, hot glue them into place.

12) Cut the felt around the spots where you glued the flowers, like so:

13) Pull out the headband and try it on. Then hold your flower formation up to
it until you find just where you want it. Use one hand to hold it in place and
the other to remove the headband. Go back to your craft room and lay the
headband on just where you have it.

14) Cut another piece of felt similar in size to the one you already used and hot
glue the two together.

And that’s it, you’re
done! This project did take a little time, probably an hour or
so, but it was pretty easy and I’m very happy with the results! Hope you like
it too 🙂