I'm really excited to blog about these barrettes. This was one of my favorite projects this year. I found the idea on Angry Chicken (a huge asset to the Portland Craft Community). I keep a running draft email where I house craft ideas I find that I might want to make in the future. I reviewed the ideas I found over the past year looking for Christmas present ideas and this covered barrette project jumped out at me.
I made two sets of these pink barrettes for my young nieces. For these I followed Angry Chicken's tutorial pretty closely. I hand sewed the sequins and seed beads to a round piece of felt which I sewed onto the flower. I also hand sewed the felt barrette cover because my sewing machine and I haven't been feeling the love.
Well, I was hooked! I wanted to make barrettes for everyone, but thought the covered version didn't look hip enough for friends. I remembered these felt flowers and knew I was on to something. The inside flower is a die cut from Kansas. I cut out two larger flowers. One larger flower was folded in half and I cut two quarter inch parallel slits. Then I put both larger flowers together and sewed a die cut flower to both layers. Finally I slipped the clip in through the slits and secured the barrette by sewing on the center of the flower (which admittedly didn't work perfectly, glue might be more permanent).
I made 7 pairs in all. Here my sister models her pair. After Christmas, I made myself a pair. Mine are in the first picture.
It was cool to finally see what you were talking about! Looks great! See? All those felt flowers actually turned out to be useful! Who knew? (You did I guess!)
Posted by: danny | January 15, 2008 at 07:52 PM
Love 'em. Please figure out a way to make these felt flowers on a pony tail band or scrunchie. Wouldn't that look great?
Posted by: connie | January 14, 2008 at 03:22 PM
Adorable! I love my pair. What can't That Jolie Girl do?!
Posted by: Karen | January 14, 2008 at 10:43 AM