Hair bands are popular among girls and women. They are comfortable and pleasant to wear and are perfect as hair accessories. With a hair band, you can pull your hair out of your face and add a fashionable touch to your hairstyle. The accessory keeps your ears warm in the off-season. It is also the perfect sewing project for in between – it can be sewn in no time at all, so that even beginners can easily create a colorful variety. Today we will show you how to sew a stylish hair band with a knot without a pattern.
The instructions are from the book “Sewing Quickies: 15 Minute Projects”. The name says it all: the accessory can be sewn in just a few steps and in a quarter of an hour. How long do you need for this? Take the test and let us know! You probably still have a suitable piece of fabric in your spares box that you can use.
Sewing Quickies: 15 Minute Projects
The book “Näh-Quickies: 15-Minute-Projects” contains a total of 80 quick sewing projects on a wide variety of topics on 192 pages. What they all have in common is that they quickly lead to success. The focus is on the simplicity of things, so the work is particularly suitable for sewing beginners. Of course also as a gift!
Simple and fast does not mean less beautiful. Thanks to the sewing instructions, you can quickly create extraordinary decorations, accessories, everyday helpers and gifts. The highlight: Many of the projects help to make your life a little more sustainable and conscious. It doesn’t matter how much sewing experience you have, with the clear instructions and simple pattern patterns you will easily master the projects from the quick sewing book.
You can order the book for (D) €16.00 / (A) €16.50 on the publisher’s website:
www.topp-kreativ.de/naeh-quickies-15-minuten-projects
The authors
The book is a joint work by Eva Scharnowski and Johanna Schmieder.
Eva Scharnowski was already sitting at her mother’s sewing machine at the age of five and sewed the first clothes for herself and her dolls. Her passion for fabrics and special materials has grown steadily ever since. After training as an art dealer, Eva completed a degree in textile design at the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences. Since graduating, she has been working as a textile designer for various companies for more than 20 years and develops textiles for the interior, clothing and automotive sectors. In her work as an author, Eva Scharnowski can implement and pass on her extensive knowledge and experience with different fabrics and materials in creative sewing ideas.
Johanna Schmieder lives near Stuttgart with her husband and two children. She prefers to dress herself and her family in “handmade” clothes. Johanna Schmieder has been sewing, knitting and crocheting since she was able to hold a needle and use scissors. Professionally, she pursues her passion – as an editor, translator and proofreader, she has been working in the handicraft industry for many years. For the first time she created models and sewing instructions herself for the sewing quickies.
Eva Scharnowski (©private)
Sew a hairband – the instructions
This hair band can be sewn without a pattern. The corresponding dimensions can be found below under the item cut. It’s a one size piece. To make sure that the headband doesn’t slip later, we recommend that you keep putting the piece of fabric around your head during the sewing process.
material
- Jersey with block stripes in black and white, 59 cm x 30 cm
- matching sewing thread
seam allowances
- There is no seam allowance to consider.
cutting
- 2x Rectangle: 59cm x 15cm
Sewing instructions for a hair band with a knot
1. Fold the two pieces in half lengthways, right sides together, pin and sew the edges together.
2. Turn both pieces over and iron out the seams. Fold the pieces so that the seams are on the side edges.
3. Fold one part in half. Pin and sew together the open edges. There are now four layers of fabric on top of each other.
4. Pull the second part through the part that has already been sewn, creating a kind of knot.
5. Pin the sewn end of the first section between the two ends of the other section, right sides together. Next, sew the ends together.
6. Pull the hair band apart so that the seams of both parts disappear. Fix the seam allowances with hand stitches at the edges.
And your quickly sewn and stylish hairband is ready.
information about the book
Sewing Quickies: 15 Minute Projects – It Can Be That Fast: 80 Instant Projects
By Eva Scharnowski and Johanna Schmieder
192 pages, 16 x 21 cm, soft cover
ISBN 978-3-7358-7046-9
(D) €16.00 / (A) €16.50
View the book on the publisher’s website: www.topp-kreativ.de/naeh-quickies-15-minuten-projekte-27046
