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Summary: Finish off your headband by correcting any stitches, cutting any extra string and ensuring that no holes in stitching remain on your band. Learn how to make your own homemade headband in this free video series.
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Karina Fraley Karina Fraley is the official mom for mommywood.com. In addition to her work for Expert Village and mommywood.com, she is working on a children's crafting b... read more
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Questions & AnswersHi, I'm Karina Fraley for Expert Village and we are finishing up our headband here. Alright, so the elastic is in, it's sewn, it's nice and flat so it's not going to twist on us. Okay, so now what you're going to do is take each side and tuck it under using your thumb and your index finger, so that's tucked under and this edge is tucked under. This is going to create a nice clean seam. So once you do that, then you're going to put one, you're going to feed one end into the other one. Go ahead and straighten it out like that. Now we're going to go ahead and sew it and we're going to be done with our headband. So go ahead and put it under like that. Put your foot down. This is kind of a thick layer because it's a couple layers of elastic, and then a couple layers of fabric so go slow with your machine. You don't want your needle to break. If you're using any sort of a pile or any thicker fabric, you may want to go ahead and use a thicker needle, but this is fine for now. So go ahead and start and do a couple of back stitches to create the knot and then just go right along the seam, we want it to be nice and clean and catch both ends. When you get to the end, you're going to want to go ahead and do a back stitch to create your knot and then we're going to cut it. Go ahead and take your loose threads and cut them, all up like that. Again this is a quick and fun little project, this is great if you have a little girl or if you like to wear headbands yourself, you can match them to outfits, you can get creative, you can make them for different holidays. It really is a fun little project and there you go as you can see here is the headband and it's going to make any little girl very happy.
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