Rosette Headband Tutorial

Remember this To Do List?  I've actually accomplished something else on it.  Go me!  It is taking me forever, but I'm slowly marking the list off.

Today I'm going to show you how to make a Rosette Headband.

First, you find the fabric you want to use and rip it is strands.  The more frayed edges, the better, in my opinion.

Your frayed strips will look like this. 

You'll take one piece and sort of make a point to start with by folding the end in half.

Then you take the folded end piece and start rolling it/wrapping it, so that the flower gets larger.

As you roll it, you twist the fabric, making it look like a rose petal then wrap it around the center, twisting every so often. 

I had a small piece of scrap fabric that I was working with so, I had a bunch of short strips.   But, if your like me and working with scraps, you'll need to sew them together to attach the strips together.  I once I finished with a strip, I sewed it in place, then sewed on another piece and began twisting again like I was working with the same piece.  You could use hot glue as well, but sewing them looks better in my opinion.  Even if you work with a long piece, you may want to sew them together every so often so each layer won't slip off of each other.  The thread just blends in with the frays.

Once you get your desired size rose, you cut two pieces of felt in the shape of the rosettes.  In the picture below, the rosettes are not connected together.  We will connect them with the felt.  As you can see below, the felt doesn't have to be perfect.

I hot blued the first piece of felt to the rosettes.  That is what keeps them in place to make one piece instead of three pieces.

I took an old headband of Hailey's and wrapped it in red ribbon.

Then, I hot glued the bottom of the rosettes like so.

Then I glued it to the headband and glued the other piece of felt to the other side of the headband using the same glue from above.

And there you have it! A Rosette Headband.

Here is Hailey modeling it.

I loved her updo so much, that I tried it myself!