So I need to make bow-ties for my floriculture class! We are planning a wedding and making all the floral arrangements. I was assigned to the chef team and so we decided to wear pink bow-ties as our uniform! I volunteered to make them!(:
I found some bow-tie tutorials and I changed them a bit so that the ties come out more polished (and in my opinion easier to make) , this is what I came up with:
First you need to cut your fabric, it should be twice the length you want the bow-tie to be (i want mine to be 5″ across so i cut it 10 inches, plus one more inch for kicks)
Then you have to decide how wide you want the bow to be. I made mine 3″. you have cut it twice as wide as you want it to be. so I’d measure my fabric to 6′.
After you cut you the fabric you will fold it in half hotdog style! Then sew the long side only. leave the two extremes of the ‘tube’ open.
after that, align the stiches in the center and you can iron to make it flat or you can leave it as is for a poofier bow(: turn it inside out.
^this picture shows it already turned inside out.
after that make the two ends meet and you can either insert one side into the other or you can sew them into each other. the point is to make a circle like this:
this is basically the body of the bow!(: now we need to make the tube that goes in thecenter. all you need to do is take a little piece of fabric and do what you did above but in a much smaller version. the measurements i chose were 4″ long and 2” wide. to me the length did not really matter because all it really has to do is wrap around the center of the bow. four” actually wraps around the bow too much so I would say make it a little shorter.
then fold you bow like this:
measure out how tight or loose you want the center part to be and then make it a tube (same as the bow). then slide it in!(: then tada you got yourself a cute little bow(: you can attach it to your clothes by using safety pins of attach a hair pin whatever you like(:
my mom insisted on me photographing it by her flowers!
Here is the tutorial I used as a guide, but like I said before I changed and skipped many of the steps! It’s basically a complete different tutorial but the building blocks of it came from here: http://prudentbaby.com/2010/04/baby-kid/how-to-make-a-bow-tie-2/
THIS IS MY FIRST TUTORIAL BY THE WAY(: feedback would be greatly appreciated(:
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