My
crafty sister-in-law Wendy has been at it again and I must give her full credit
for this craft - as it was completely inspired by her hair clips with a no-slip
grip that she made for her daughter. My daughter has had enough of headbands
with big flowers on them and frequently pulls them off and discards them when I
am not looking. She has fine hair that doesn’t hold clips well and when I have
looked in the stores at clips none of them had an anti-slip feature… making
them useless for my daughter. Then one day I noticed my niece and her adorable
hair clips and I asked my sister-in-law about them. Viola, a new obsession was
born. I have been quite busy making these baby hair clips with the no-slip grip
and since they turned out so well I have decided to whip up a little tutorial
for you. So without further ado, here is my tutorial on how to make no-slip
baby hair bows.
What you need:
Hot
glue gun
3/8
inch grosgrain ribbon {although other ribbon will work I have found that I like
the grosgrain best}
Single
prong hairclip
Kitchen
shelf liner
How to Make It:
Take
the grosgrain ribbon and cut in 4 pieces {one 7 inch piece, one 4 inch piece,
one 3 inch piece, and one 1½ inch piece}
Take
all of the pieces and singe each end with a lighter – thus sealing them and
stopping them from fraying and making a hot mess of your pretty bow.
Take
the 4 in piece of ribbon and place a dot of hot glue on one end and then
connect the ends {creating a circle}.
Repeat
this process with the 3 inch piece of ribbon.
Place a
dot of hot glue on the inside of the ribbon where you connected the ends. Now
press together with the top of the ribbon circle {creating a little bow with
one circle}.
Repeat
this process with the other circle piece of ribbon, creating two little bows.
Now
place a dot on the center of the 4 inch little bow and attach it to the center
of the 3 inch little bow - connecting the little bows together. Set aside.
Take
the 7 inch ribbon and starting on the inside of the hair clip use the hot glue
gun to attach the ribbon the single prong hair clip {start inside on the bottom
of the clip and slowly work your way all the way around. Do NOT try to do it
all at once or you will either burn your fingers or the glue will cool… either
way – not good.}
Cut a
small piece of the kitchen shelf liner {about 1 inch long and ½ in thick} and
hot glue it to the TOP of the hair clip. If you glue it onto the bottom it will
make slipping on the hair clip difficult. So make sure to glue it to the top.
Now go
back to your little bows and take the 1½ inch ribbon and wrap it around the
center of the bows. Make sure that the place where it connects is on the larger
bow {the side that will be glued to the hair clip and will not be seen}. Glue
the 1½ in place.
Now
take the bow and place a dot of hot glue on the center and adhere it to the
hair clip.
Viola!
You now have an adorable no-slip baby hair clip that you made yourself for a
fraction of the cost of buying them elsewhere. Cost really wasn’t the issue for
me so much as the usefulness of the hair bows. I love that these have the
ribbon going all the way around the clips so that there is no fear of poking my
child with metal and there is no hair being caught in the clip and pulled out.
There
are other bows that I have been playing around with and they require larger
size ribbon and a different bow making technique that after I have mastered I
will be sure to come back and share in future tutorials. But they are currently
a work in progress and a bit messy.
I hope
you enjoy this tutorial. Thanks for coming by to check it out!
