DIY - Corsage Hair Band

This little hair band or fascinator is perfect for using your favourite fabrics and finishing off outfits for weddings and occasions. It's quite nice, quick and effective.

Your will need: 5 meters of bias binding, small strips of silk or pretty fabric, thread and an alice band.

                           sewing machine, scissors and thread


1. Cut your fabric into three 5 cms x 35cms strips and edge in bias binding.

2. sew a long gathering stitch along the opposite length of fabric and gather the silk whilst twisting around on itself to form the roses.

3. Sew the roses in place and the sew to the Alice band. You can wrap your Alice band with binding or ribbon and glue to match your hair colour.

DIY Glitter Flower Corsage

 Todays DIY is using our new fabric rounds to make a gorgeous glittering flower corsage. 

Materials and equipment: 

A stack of glitter rounds

brooch back or crocodile clip

needle and thread

1. pick the colours combination you want to use from your stack of rounds.

2. pinch the tip of the round and stitch into a petal shape. Continue to do this on each of the 10 petals

3. One by one stitch the petals together in the order you would like them to appear

4. turn over and stitch the back making sure each of the petals are secure. Then sew or glue your brooch back to the base. 

And there is your glittering flower! 

The stacks of glitter rounds are available in our shop in packs of 20. There are two of each colour in the pack, enough to make two corsages.