Call me an Indie Cindy; I don’t care.
I am here professing my love of headbands, or more specifically, making my own!
Us students can’t be spending silly amounts of hard-earned (ahem… well, loaned) cash on something that we can easily make ourselves with a bit of know-how and creativity.
Here are some of the headbands I have made, displayed in a creative but not so effective way from a tree in my garden. For a better look see below, where they are displayed rather more clearly on my floor 🙂
The sequin headbands and thin material strips are simply lengths cut from rolls of trimmings from haberdasheries and market stalls, which I just tie under my hair when I want to wear them.
The black diamante diamond I found in my Mum’s sewing box, and I attached it to some sheer black ribbon. I sewed the ends of the ribbon to a loop of elastic so it is stretchy.
The black and gold headband is just a snippet from an ornate trim sewn on to a length of black elastic.
The bows are easy-peasy to make and can also be used as brooches when detached from the band itself.
Simply make a loop from a scrap of material (in both cases here I used old leggings!) flatten and tie in the middle with an inch of ribbon or some more of the fabric. If sewing is too fiddly, just use superglue.
The bands are made from strips of the leftover material tied in a knot, and are affixed to the bow by a humble safety-pin.
The white sequined headband pictured here is my fave.
I crocheted some creamy thread and tacked it loosely to some elastic. I then sewed on a sequin leaf shape I found in my gran’s cupboard, and just tied the ends in a knot to make a band.
I also made a black flower headband by attaching a small corsage to some elastic, which came to a grand total of 55p (50p for the flower, 5p for the elastic!) and my friend told me she’d bought practically the same thing from Topshop for £9. Ha!
That particular headband has since gone missing (hmm which one of my friends has nabbed it…).
So now you see, if you find something pretty or funky you want to put on a headband (brooch, button, bead or otherwise) I say get creative and go crazy for hand-made headbands.
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