Headbands - big and small

Anyway, I did manage to try and make a couple of headbands following this pattern. The blue one is for adults or older children and the white one for babies and toddlers. You can use this template for any size headband you want, you just have to use a longer or shorter elastic depending on whom the headband is for.

If you want to try and make one this is what you have to do:

1- Download the template from here.

2- Choose your fabric or fabrics.

3- Place template on fold of fabric and cut along the outside line. Do this twice as you'll need to have two pieces.

4- On one of the pieces you've just cut iron on some sort of interfacing, the one I use is called Vilene and I got it from HobbyCraft.

5- Place the 2 pieces of fabric with wrong sides together and tack or use some pins to hold them in place. Sew either as close to the edge as you can for a larger headband or following the inside line for a narrower headband.
Sew only along the length of the fabric on both sides, do not sew the ends.

6- With the help of a pencil or a safety pin, turn the resulting tube inside out very carefully. Flatten it out and iron.

7- Measure the elastic you need and using some matching fabric make a smaller tube (this is where the elastic will go in). This should be longer than the elastic and have the same width as the ends of the headband.

8- Place the elastic inside this tube and make sure the edge of the elastic is aligned with the edge of the fabric and sew. Do the same on the other side.

9- Insert this into the ends of the headband and sew again. Embellish your headband any way you want. You can use buttons, embroidery, bows, anything you can think of to make it really special.