Celeb Hair Band : Refashion Tutorial

Do you also have about 15 nice hair bands laying around, that all fit like they were made for a doll instead of your size head? Well, I do. Or rather, I did. I took a drastic measure and refashioned one. Now I have 14 too small and 1 that fits!!! It looks adorable as I also jazzed it up with a rose to make it into a celeb hair band!!

Here’s a doll modeling MY new ELEGANT handmade hair band!!

Quite a celeb hairdo….

Hair band Refitting Tutorial

1. Take a standard elastic hair band that is definitely too tight and cut it at the point of where the two ends were sewn together. This is the point of no return.

2. Find a strip of (elastic) fabric that’s say 10 cm (7 inches) long.

The length depends how many extra cm you’ll need, but as you can see in the picture below, I’ve added quite a bit extra to the length of the original hair hair band.

Make your strip a bit more than twice as wide as your hair band, say 2.5-3 inches wide.

3. Sew the strip length wide so that it is exactly the same width as your hair band into a tube. When done, turn the tube inside out.

4. Attach the tube to one end of the hair band.

5. Now tailor the hair band on your own head to determine what’s the exactly right circumference for the hair band for it to fit comfortably.

Pin it.

6. Sew the two ends together nicely at the exactly right point. Cut off the excess fabric of the hair band.

Refashioning Hair band with Fabric Rose Tutorial

1. From the same fabric (or a contrasting fabric), cut a strip of 2 x say 6 inches.

2. Fold the strip of fabric double

3. Wrap the folded fabric into a coil and secure it with a few stitches at the back of the emerging flower.

4. Attach it with a safety pin or a few stitches onto the hair band.

Cute, hey?!

Tips on Fashion & Upcycling

Hair accessories are the rage this summer. Hence, I made my black rose a clip-on (rather than permanently attached). Now I can easily swap it for my cute butterfly pin, my birdie brooch or the embroidery piece that I’m working on and I’ll show you later. As well, I have a couple of other rose pins….
The rose and the extra fabric were a skirt that a friend once owned.