Create Wear It by Beata Steiner

DIY Felt Flower Headband

I found several abandoned headbands in my daughters drawer and wanted to give them new life. Some had frayed and the fabric came off, others had their ends chewed by a dog, and some were just outdated. You can take the old fabric off so that you have a plain plastic headband to work with, get some felt, hot glue, and scissors, and you are ready to make your felt flower headband in time for spring.

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Here are some supplies I used. I planned on using all these felt colors but ended up using just the green and the darker shade of coral.

Supplies needed:

  1. Felt sheets – any color you want. I used a coral shade for my flowers and green for the leaves. Here is a bundle of various colors.
  2. Yarn – to wrap the headband – also any color of your choosing. The brand I had was Yarn Bee from Hobby Lobby.
  3. Hot glue gun
  4. scissors
  5. embroidery thread and needle (optional)
1. Begin by tying the yarn as close to the end of the headband as possible without it falling off, leaving a short tail. I kept my string attached to the ball of yarn I was using until the very end.
2. Hold down the tail of the yarn and start wrapping around it, pinning the tail to the headband.
3. The tail will eventually get covered by the wrapped yarn. This will help keep the yarn in place.
4. Keep wrapping yarn all the way around the headband. Every once in a while, I stopped to put a dot of hot glue on the headband to make sure the yarn stays in place. Wrap and tie the end and cut off the tail as close as you can.
Cut out two elongated ovals, about 1.5 in long.
Fold them over each end with a little bit of hot glue.
This will keep the end of the yarn in place and keep it from unraveling. It also makes the ends softer so that they don’t get snagged in hair.
Next, you are going to cut out two imperfect circles. Make them a little wavy around the edges to imitate flower petals. Your flowers can be however big or small you want. My circles were about 2 -2.5 in in diameter.
Cut in a spiral, starting from the outside edge and ending in the middle of the circle.
Cut out two leaf shapes from the green felt to fit with your flowers.
Starting from the middle, loosely roll the spiral into the shape of a flower, putting dabs of glue where needed to keep it in place.
This part is optional or you could put your own spin on it. Using embroidery floss, thread through the middle of the flower, starting from the back and cris-crossing several times to make the center of the flower. End with the thread pulled through the back and knot it a couple times.
You can also hot glue a bead or several tiny beads as your flower center.
At this point I also cut circles out of the same color felt as my flowers to cover up the back and help keep the leaf in place, as well as make it easier to glue down onto the headband.
Sandwich the leaf between the flower and the felt bottom with some hot glue. Your flowers are now ready to arrange and glue directly to the top of your headband.
Glue your flowers close enough that they touch and arrange them a little of center so that they are not directly in the middle of the headband.
I surprised my daughter with her new headband as we picked her up from school and she loves it! Great for spring pictures or Easter outfits!

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