Bows, ruffles, ribbons and laces - ideas for the decoration of women's accessories and clothing and footwear are endless. This hobby begins, as a rule, in childhood, when mothers choose the most lovely dresses and hairpins for their beloved daughters, and the girls, in turn, try the first design steps on their dolls, devising them outfits and making them themselves from woven scraps.
However, in the adult period, the skills of sewing small objects of decor can be very useful, because it's so nice to give your friends hair clips and elastic bands made by yourself, and also decorate your clothes and any objects in the house. The basic option is, of course, a bow. For him, any lace, satin ribbon, stripes of beautiful, preferably glossy fabric with a pattern. In addition, a bow with their own hands is a great way to pass the time and increase their aesthetic taste. There are a lot of its variations, as well as the methods of its manufacture, so let's learn at least some of them together.
A lush version
So, a big bow with your own hands can become an excellent decoration of the gift box. For him, we take a long ribbon of artificial silk with a width of about 2-5 cm of any color, depending on the wishes. Very nice look will be a bow, made with the help of a gentle pastel color with a small pattern like peas, flowers or funny little animals. This decor is more suitable for girls, but men's gifts are better decorated with darker shades of fabrics without a pattern. To make a bow with your own hands from such a ribbon, we take some firm flat base 10-15 cm wide (this may be a fragment of a crages or a hard envelope) and wrap our tape in 8-10 rows so that its edges coincide with each other Friend. As a result, you should get such a multi-layered strip. Remove it from the base and in the middle with a needle and thread, make a short horizontal seam, and then tighten it as much as possible and tie the knot. In fact, the bow, made with his own hands , is almost ready. Now it remains only to spread all the layers in different directions until the shape of the ball is obtained. We attach it to the gift wrap with glue or tie it to the edge of the same ribbon.
Graceful bow for a man's gift
If you want your surprise to look more elegant, we will produce a satin bow with your own hands. This material is fragile, and if it is not carefully touched by a needle, it is easy to make a tightening. Therefore, for work we take thin silk threads and three types of satin ribbons: dark blue with a pattern, white width 2.5-3 cm and one narrow, also blue, 0.5 cm wide. Such a bow is suitable for decorating a man's gift, hairpin or Dresses, if you attach a pin to its back side. So, first we fold the white tape into three layers, as we did in the previous method, also sew in the middle, tighten and carefully straighten up and down, the bow should be flat, 10 cm long. Then from the blue broad satin we cut out two strips of length 16 and 12 Cm, and from thin - two identical (20-25 cm). Both wide tapes need to be turned into single-layer flat bows. For this we sew the ends, sew in the middle and in turn attach them to the blue. And to hide the seams, in the center we add a neat bow from a thin ribbon and attach a button or a rhinestone.