Stardoll's Most Wanted...: Trendy Handmade Accessory! / writemarycat

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Trendy Handmade Accessory! / writemarycat

Hello There, Dolls!

To start off - thank you so much for the support of my previous post, I've never had that much positive comments before! And so, you inspired me to do one thing for you - that's why I went to the city center to buy a textile tape and beads and some tulle.

Anyways, check this out:

This is me, make up and photo - myself, and floral headband 'Vivid' made by me as well.

And now I am going to tell and show you, how to do the same thing, as Sorbet colors and lovely headbands are so in trend right now! Add some corset and a layered chiffon skirt... I swear, you'll be looking like a goddess!

So, let's start?

P.S. Don't forget to zoom the pictures when detailed!

Things you need:

1. Inspiration & Good Mood.

2. Forget your lazyness.

3. Textile tape - 3 colors of pink, plus they have to be in different width, from very wide to thin.

4. Black little beads, nearly 30 pieces.

5. White tulle.

6. Threads, the same color as the widest tape.

Step 1: Big Flower Beginning

So, take a needle and pull a tread into it. Take the widest tape, and sew it as on the picture. See, the suture goes like this: Without a bead - With a Bead - Without a Bead etc. So, that means you need to skip one piece of suture, but the next one is implanted with a bead.

After you've sewed a bit, try to charge it. How's that? :) You need to get the thing I got on the picture above. Sew until the flower goes round.

Done? Almost a flower, right? But it has some more tape to sew! What do we do? Cut!

But thought it worked, edges are not connected with each other, and are rough. Here we need to sew again, like this: See, I just turned the flower on it's backside, and sewed two edges together. (Above) Here's what we got:

(Don't mind the tape on the background on the flower, it's just a piece laying on the bed lol)

Step 2: Let's Bloom!

So, Flowers usually bloom. This one is like that too. You take a piece of tulle, it has to be squared and twice bigger in radius, than our flower. You put it on a flower, and push the middle of it through the hole, which is not covered in the flower.

Then you leave only one - two centimeters on the backside, like this:

Next thing you do, is cut edges of the tulle outside the flower.

That's what you need to have in the result:

Then, you fix the tulle on the backside, but try not to deform the flower itself. Do it carefully!

Step 3: Bend It :)

The next task is to place this flower on a headband, and make it look oh-so better.

At first, take a middle tape and place it on your head, to see how much tape do you need for the headband itself. Don't forget to add nearly 40 cm to it, so you can bend it when it's on your head! Just so you are safe :)

Now, look closely on the next picture. See, the place where the scissors lay? I marked the tape with a needle there, so you could see a percentage - where to put the flower. Shortly - it has to be moved a little bit to ear, not to the middle of your head.

Next thing what you do is taking a needle, again. Sew it to the place you marked tightly, because the flower is hard to hold.don't forget, you're sewing the middle of the flower, not erm... "leafs" or what :D

Also, while sewing, sometimes add the beads on the top of your flower, and sew them in, so it looks more precious :) It has to look like this:

The last thing to do is adding two little flowers near the main one. You just take a piece of tulle and rumple it, then sew the middle of this 'rump', adding the same beads, as on the big flower, sewing it into the headband while making that! In the end, take the smallest tape if yours, and do the same as with the tulle.