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Sew a headband
The hairstyle is right
© Sevim Aslan / Guido
Bad hair days don’t stand a chance with Guido’s headband. So it’s all the more beautiful that you can make the design yourself from his studio in a single afternoon.
You need:
- Outer fabric (preferably jersey or with elastic; approx. 30 cm with a fabric width of 140 cm)
- Sewing thread
- various applications for decoration (e.g. brooches, patches, rhinestones or chains, etc.)
It’s that easy
- Add the necessary seam allowances to the pattern. If you sew the headband with an overlock machine, add 0.7 cm to the long edge, add 1 cm with a normal sewing machine. Add 1.4 or 2 cm to the short edge.
- Cut the pattern twice, paying attention to the position on the fabric. The headband must be stretchable in length.
- Close the longitudinal seam on both parts. If necessary, slightly iron the seam apart. Then turn right.
- Lay the two hoses created as follows.
- Fold the vertical hose down. Fold the right part of the horizontal strip down with the seam up.
- Screw in the left part with the side without a seam and place it on top of all layers.
- Put the four layers on top of each other and stitch with a zigzag stitch at 0.7 cm.
- Lay the top and bottom layers on one side and hide the seam allowances in a seam. Choose a large straight stitch for this seam and make sure that the layers lie nicely on top of each other.
- Decorate the headband as you like. Make sure that the elasticity of the tape is retained.
And here the pattern for download:
Headband GMK
This article originally appeared in Guido issue No. 05/2020.