Bows for the Primary Presentation.

Our Primary Presentation was last Sunday and it went wonderful. All the nerves, work and sweat payed off. The kids were wonderful and their singing was beautiful. We decided to make CTR shields to pin on the boys' white shirts. That was fairly easy. BUT for the girls we decided on making them some green bows to go with the green theme of the CTR shield. Well I had never made a hair bow before and I was feeling overwhelmed since I left it til the last minute. But I found a tutorial on YouTube and here's my version of it. Hope the pictures help.

 

The tutorial asked for thick 1" ribbon but all I had for the moment was this thin one. I cut strips into 8" strips.

Then I took one end and folded it in half twice so that it looked like this.

 




 Then I cut a piece off diagonally with scissors. Repeat the process on the other end of the ribbon.

This will give you nice clean and matching looking ends. Then carefully with a lighter burn the edges to prevent from fringing.

 

 The next steps take a couple of times to get right. It's more like eyeing it out. You make a first fold like so.

Then fold again like this.

 

And finally it should look like this after folding it one last time. So like I said you have to kind of estimate how much to fold so that it can come out even like this.

You then pinch it in the middle. It's a little difficult to get the folds in but after a couple of bows it got easier.

 

Then with a threaded needle you go through the center once and then just wrap the string around it a couple times and knott it up.

 

 It should look like this. You then just adjust here and there and you're almost done.
To finish it off you wrap a piece of ribbon around the middle section to cover of the string and to make it look nice, I used a glue gun to attach it. I choose a different color green to make it pop.

All I did then was add a bobby pin through the ribbon and voila, ready to wear. I think that for my first home made bow it came out pretty nice. I made about 15 of these and I regret not taking a picture of my primary girls because they looked so cute with these on.

I know these aren't the greatest directions but I'm learning. I just really wanted to share this with everyone even if my "tutorials" are horrible!