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I keep seeing Wool Felt used to make hair accessories. I have used polyester felt for hair clips (like here) but never wool. I wanted to try it out with hair accessories, so I ordered some colorful wool felt pieces to experiment with. And I’m so glad I did. It’s so nice and cozy, doesn’t seem to fray a fuzz up like the polyester felt and seems like the perfect choice for those little newborn heads.
I keep seeing Wool Felt used to make hair accessories. I have used polyester felt for hair clips (like here) but never wool. I wanted to try it out with hair accessories, so I ordered some colorful wool felt pieces to experiment with. And I’m so glad I did. It’s so nice and cozy, doesn’t seem to fray a fuzz up like the polyester felt and seems like the perfect choice for those little newborn heads.
So shortly before our little girl arrived, I made her a few hair lovelies. Oh, because I love a little baby with a simple little bow or flower of some sort. It just girly’s her right up.
This way, no one will mistake her for a him.
Because yeah, that happens often with these itty bitty newborns.
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So I created a few accessories that I can attach to a headband……..or just attach right to her head.
(Some use ky jelly, others use karo syrup……….and some people use white school glue. Just add a small dot of one of these to the back of the flower, place on head, and allow to dry. Use a little water to dissolve any of the three to loosen up the flower when done, and remove.)
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The flowers and little bows sit so nice and pretty atop a newborn head.
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Something about it makes me smother this child with kisses.
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But if you’d rather place them on a headband, attach them to some super soft fold over elastic.
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Whatever you choose, your little lady will look incredibly sweet.
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Would you like to make some of your own wool felt accessories?
(These are great for any aged girl. Each of these accessories shown can be placed on clips for thicker hair.)
First, here are the little flower cutouts that I drew and cut out to make my little accessories. They are a little uneven and shaky in some spots……but all flowers are a little different, right? :)
(You are welcome to use these for your own personal use. Not to be made and then sold for profit. Click on picture and then copy and save to your computer. Open in a document and reduce your margins to zero. Expand to 100% and print.)
**But, get creative and design more shapes and headband styles if you’d like. And look around in stores or on little baby/girl heads as you walk around in public. You may just get inspired.
As for supplies:
I bought some beautiful wool felt here. They sell it in a nice variety of colors and is fantastic quality. (You can use synthetic felt too……but wool felt holds up a lot better and is nice and soft.)
I bought the fold over elastic here. What is fold over elastic? It’s a really soft elastic that is used for underwear and knitwear. So it’s not like your normal elastic you buy at the fabric store. In fact, I have never seen this stuff at the fabric store……but I could be wrong. This shop offers the elastic in a nice variety of colors and works great on those soft and sensitive little heads.
**Update: I was informed that the shop where I purchased the elastic has sold out of what she had listed. I imagine she will add more soon…….but until then, go check out the comment section of this post. A link to another shop was shared where you can purchase similar elastic.
For this first flower, I used the shapes from row 1 of the pattern page. I cut out one of each of the 3 shapes of flowers out of the wool felt. And then I cut one of the leaf shape in a different color of wool felt.
Then I stacked the 3 flower shapes on top of each other. Then I put the leaf shape on the bottom, allowing the tips of the leaves to poke out. Lastly, I hand-stitched a little pearl to the center of the flower, making sure to stitch through all of the layers of felt…..securing it all in place.
For the next flower, I cut out 10 of the flower shape from row 2 of the pattern page. I also cut an oval shape of felt to be able to sew the flowers to. You can make this flower cluster more circular-shaped or make it oval like I did.
Then, begin attaching each flower to your felt backing, making a small X shape in a contrasting thread color.
Continue adding your little flower shapes…
……..until you have covered your felt backing piece.
Then cut out 4 of the leaf shape from row 2 on the pattern page.
Attach the leaves to the back of the felt backing piece with your needle and thread……….
…………..and then cut out another piece of felt to cover up the back. Either use hot glue to seal it all together or make a few stitches with your needle and thread to secure it in place.
For the last flower, I cut out 4 of the flower shape from row 3 from the pattern page above. And then I cut out 1 circle and 2 leaf shapes from the shapes from row 3 of the pattern page.
First, I attached the two leaves to the front of the circle backing piece.
Then, one at a time, I folded each of the flower shapes in half, then in half again…
……then positioned each folded piece in one quarter of the circular backing piece.
Continue adding each folded flower piece to the circular backing piece…..covering up the base of the leaves. Keep your stitches really close to the center, making sure to go through the folded layers, keeping the flowers folded a bit.
After letting go of the folded flowers, they should pop right up, creating a nice full flower.
And last, the little wool felt bow. I cut narrow strips of the felt…
The sizing of this bow varies. It just depends on how big/small/narrow/wide you’d like your little bow.
I first folded the longer strip into a flat cirlce and then placed another strip (with pointy ends) behind it. Then I hand-stitched those layers together.
Then I grabbed the last strip and attached one end to the back center of the bow….
Then wrapped it around the front……and then to the back and then hand-stitched the other end securely to the back as well.
If you wrap the center piece semi-tight, it will help the center pucker just a bit.
Then attach your flowers to clips or plastic headbands………..or to some super soft fold over elastic (like I explained above). If using elastic as your headband, just hand-stitch the flowers on with a needle and thread. Otherwise, I would use hot glue to attach to a plastic headband or metal clip.
And enjoy!
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Ashley
Ashley Johnson is a DIY sewist, crafter, costume maker and home interior designer.
These are very cute Ashley and your little miss is so adorable. Love her little rolls. :o)
Oh, and I know the dollar store's around here (in Idaho) carry those cute crochet looking headbands at 4for a dollar. They are super cute with hair bows. Also, many fabric stores carry elastic lace sold by the yard and that works terrific for headbands.
These are so cute and I have never seen them before, which is odd because I live in a crazy babies craft town! So cute!! BTW, I use elmers glue with my daughter, too. It's easiest to work with and stays on longer than the other stuff.
My mom attached bows to my head with elmer's glue too!
toothpaste is also a great bow to head adhesive.
aaahhhoooowwwhhnnn these are so cute! thanks for sharing this tutorial!
Thanks for the tutorial- I am excited to make some!! I recently bought elastic from Bitsy Bands- they used to be on Etsy but now have their own site. They have skinny or thick elastic. You can even purchase the headbands pre-made.
They are absolutely gorgeous! And the bubba too ;)
Sooo adorable!! I want to make them right now! But I don't have any little girls of my own. Need to find a friend to gift them too!
Such cute flowers!
Here's a tip I have LOVED for my baby girl… when there's just barely enough hair for a little pony tail on top, use the little orthodontic rubber bands (used to connect the top teeth to bottom teeth). They are tiny and work perfectly on those wispy bits of hair. A local orthodontist gave me a small package for free and it has lasted me over a year so far!
That is just adorable! I'll definitely try this if I have a girl (find out soon!) I was a bald baby for a long time, so I'm thinking my child will be too!
I think that you are just Fabulous!! 3 beautiful Children, 1 a newborn and yet you can still share all you beautiful work with us. Your blog helps me with some many ideas and i just wanted to say another fantastic job and a big THANKS!!
I had a baby girl a few weeks before you and I've been working on wool felt flowers all week. I've always used elmers glue with little ribbons before and hadn't thought of using it with the wool felt, too (but my baby has enough hair to just clip it in.) Some of my favorites that I've made are like these: https://www.etsy.com/listing/50949681/set-of-3-baby-flower-wool-felt-hair-clip and
https://www.etsy.com/listing/69512913/easter-morning-set-of-4-baby-snap-clips
I love these. And, I actually use glue too but a glue stick…easy to throw in the purse and works great!
I have a question. I am making a quiet book for my little kiddo. The pattern mostly calls for felt. Do you think I should use the wool felt or the regular felt (I think polyester). Any suggestions? I haven't used much felt before. Thanks! My email:
shellbell71@gmail.com
And haha, you're welcome Natalie! Luckily I made these before she was born. So no biggee! :)
Julianne – I have the school glue but I think I used regular with my little girl when she was a baby, 4 years ago. But I can't remember…..so I would say go with the school glue.
Oh. My. Goodness!!! Can I just say how much I love you right now? These are PRECIOUS!!! She is so lucky to have you for a mom. Thank you SO much for taking the time to share this with us, especially since you are most likely in zombie mode right now. ;) You ROCK!!!
So sweet!!!
I have ordered from this lady on ebay:
https://shop.ebay.com/hobovian/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562
her FOE is the same as Ashley pictured and she has the most colors and the best price I have found. My baby is over a year and she's still wearing headbands made out of this elastic, it's so soft and stretchy that she forgets it's there. I made little loops on mine and made the flowers into hairclips so I can just clip them onto the headbands now, but clip them into her hair as soon as she grows some!
I just posted a green St Patricks poof bow similiar to yours. Soo cute. Love your new cutie, I have a new cutie too.
https://savvychichome.blogspot.com/2011/03/lucky-us.html
Your baby girl is SO precious! Glad you used her as your model. I hope you continue to do so. So sweet!
I used Elmer's too. My MIL and some of my friends thought I was cRaZY! But it just works soo good! Don't have any babies now, guess I'll just have to make some for myself, they are just too cute not to make.
So cute! Do you use regular elmer's or school glue? It seems like the latter would come off more easily.
Well, we are planning to TTC in June and we've been hoping for a boy as we already have 2 girls, but these OMG, these are making me want another little girl.
@Griffeth Family – the elastic multipack at that etsy shop is for the skinny elastic (1/8" wide), not the wider elastic showed in this blog post.
I love all the links to the shops where you can purchase similar flowers……haha, all are very similar. How funny that many people get an image in their mind and create similar things. BUt I love the links that are shared for those of you who don't want to make them (or have the time!). Oh, and those in the shops linked in comments are much more perfect than mine. So go there and check theirs out…..and buy them up while you're there! ;)
Also, it looks like the listings of elastic that I linked to were all purchased. The shop owner will need to add more listings before more can be purchased. I contacted her to let her know…..but I'm not sure how soon more will be added. So thanks for the link "Griffeth family"…… this shop seems to have the same stuff: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElasticByTheYard?ref=top_trail
So good luck, and keep linking up similar shops. It's always nice to see what others are making! :)
Ashley
The flowers and headbands are cute as can be, but the baby is beautiful! Congrats!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ElasticByTheYard?ref=top_trail
I just found this site and it seems to have a great selection and you can get 1 yard (22 total) of every color for 6.75
Hey! Those look just like the ones in my friend's Etsy shop. So cute!
https://www.etsy.com/shop/maydaystudiodesigns
whoops, i mean lou and lee. :)
these are so cute! they look just like lou and lou on etsy! you should check her out if you haven't she's amazing.
I went to the shop to find the fold over elastic and could not find it could you email me with the link ? jahpack@yahoo.com. oh thank you for this post. I have been trying to make these and love the technique you have used.
These are precious!! I used a glue stick when my daughter was an infant! Now I have a grand daughter and some felt and thread AND a glue stick! I am ready to go! Thanks for the instructions!
Totally yummy and adorable. And such a sweet model you have :)
I love felts and these are so pretty and cute. Thanks for sharing, I definitely would like to make this for my niece's baby.
oh I love these!!! I need something new for my daughter!!! I can't wait to make some! I think that I am so going to make some for my niece too!!
I went to find the elastic and the shop didn't have any listed. Are they out or is it the wrong shop?
I use elmers too. It's the best!
so precious!! The flowers are adorable, but the little felt bows look so sweet!! I love them all.
I love this idea…so cute! I am featuring your project on my Fabulous Finds Friday!
Alisa
sweetpeasandbb.blogspot.com
Also, double sided tape! Perfect for attaching bows to baby girls with little to no hair :) I'm not sure which works best though.
you are genius, woman! pure genius!
I'm with Natausha… if I wasn't (over)due with a boy right now, I would scramble to make a few of these! Normally I don't love bows on little girls – the size and shape of these are perfect, though!
Beautiful! I can't wait to make these for my girls!
I love the little white with yellow stitches so cute! I'm secretly hoping my besties baby is a girl so I can bow her out! I already bow out my own girls as much as they'll let me!
These are all so adorable! I can't wait to make some for babies being born around me. :)
I love this. I'm having a little boy in August otherwise I would order these supplies right now! So cute and simple.