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Made: another headband

I actually made this quite awhile ago but realized I never wrote about it. This is actually my 2nd, the first I wrote about here.

Project Notes: The first time I made it, I thought it was too wide and too loose. This was a long time ago, but comparing the 2 headbands, I suspect I either sewed the 2nd with a larger SA, or just cut my pieces down a little.

Mistakes/Complications: I didn’t really make any mistakes per se, although the result was too tight to be comfortable. Comparing the 2 I see the overall length of the 2nd was shorter by almost an inch. I shortened the fabric, and then lengthened the elastic - but not by enough.

Notes for Next Time: The overall length of the first headband, (after I’d adjusted the elastic) ended up being good in terms of comfort. Next time I make it, I need to make sure the overall length of the headband matches the first, a little over 10″, even if I shorten the fabric length and lengthen the elastic.

Tags: from a tutorial, headband

I have a headband!

Feeling industrious, I completed the headband the night after the last post. Not that it was hard, mind you.

Project Source: this tutorial, as previously noted.

Project Notes: I used elastic that came with my father in law’s dress shirt, wrapped around the fancy box. It’s much fancier than plain elastic! I made the thinner of the 2 templates offered. I only interfaced one of the fabrics; it wasn’t clear whether I was to do both.

Mistakes/Complications: I made the elastic 4 inches as spec’d, which was way too loose. I then lazily just folded it in a little and sewed it tighter. Now it is a little too tight. As you can see from the photo, you can also see a little of the reverse fabric peeking out. Poor ironing, I suppose.

Notes for Next Time: It’s a little wide as is, make it 1/2″ narrower overall. Also cut the elastic 1/2″ shorter, that’s probably shorter enough.

Tags: from a tutorial, headband

I want a headband!

Me and my bangs, we’re done. I failed to schedule a haircut for tomorrow, Saturday, for the 3rd week in a row, as I always do. So before I embark on anything else, I am going to make this headband from a tutorial which, like the pincushion, I read about on sewmamasew’s Handmade Holidays. Why do I keep bringing it up but never link it? Because I’m just gonna add it to my blogroll before the sun rises.

Tags: from a tutorial, headband