Felt Covered Barrette

"Blossom" - Spring has sprung barrette

Posted by Joielu

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Hi all!

This is my first, ever, tut and I'm a newbie to stitching.

This is a simple, doodle embroidered, felt covered hair barrette. It costs almost nothing to make & in a snap!

Enjoy!

xxxooo
Joielu

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You Will Need (6 things)

  • Felt
  • 1 2" snap on Hair clip
  • card stock to make your own Template
  • Embroidery Thread
  • Embroidery Needle
  • Scissors

Steps (10 steps, 60 minutes)

  1. 1

    Trace around the hair clip onto card stock

    Cut about 1/4" around, larger than your tracing

    Your template should look something like this

  2. 2

    Using your template, cut out 2 pieces from your felt

  3. 3

    Take 1 of the felt pieces and doodle embroider your design leaving about 1/4" edge all around

    Put aside for a few

  4. 4

    Next...

    Place the hair clip on the remaining piece of felt

    Approximate where you'll be inserting the narrow piece (the unsnapped hair clip's bottom piece) through the felt

  5. 5

    Taking your scissors, snip a short slit like this...

  6. 6

    With an unsnapped hair clip, insert the narrow piece through the slit you just snipped

  7. 7

    Snap closed

  8. 8

    Place the 2 felt pieces together, one on top of the other- your embroidered piece RS facing out, the underside should look like this

    I used a running stitch all the way around

  9. 9

    Like so

  10. 10

    Turn it over

    Tah-dah!