Polka Dot Bungalow: Ruffles

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Wednesday, January 11

Ruffle Flower Headband Tutorial

If you read yesterday's post {Miss B's Tea Party} then you may have noticed her Ruffle Flower Headband! For Christmas, the hubby bought me a ruffler foot for my sewing machine! In LOVE with that accessory! Why did I not purchase one AGES ago, I'll never know. The ruffles are precise and makes such a clean look.

Do you have one? What do you think about it?

It takes some getting use to, but once you get the hang of it...you're singing with each seam it places :)

The ruffler foot will be used with the tutorial I'll be sharing :)

Please note: If you do not have a ruffler foot, No Worries you can use this tutorial....love her blog!

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Ruffle Flower Headband

Let's get started, shall we?

What you will need:

Knit Fabric

2 Round Felt Circles

(Note: There is only one circle shown in the picture below)

(FOE) Fold Over Elastic

Scissors

Sewing Machine (You may hand sew if you prefer)

Thread

Glue Gun

Glue Sticks

Ruffler Foot (Optional)

Measurements I used:

{These measurements are for my 3 1/2 year old and a 7 1/2" Ruffle Flower}

{Knit Fabric}

Color: Cream

Size: 3"W x 124"L (You may have to sew the knit together first to get the length desired...I did :)

{Felt Circles}

Color: Cream

Size: 3" Circle

{FOE Elastic}

Color: Cream

Size: 17" (I go by the size chart below)

Newborn (12 inches), 0-6 Months (13 inches), 6-12 Months (14 inches), 12-18 Months (15 inches),

18-24 Months (16 inches), 2-3 Years (17 inches), 4-5 Years (17 inches), Older (18 inches)

If you are using a ruffler foot, go ahead and place onto sewing machine. I set the foot to gather at every stitch (1). If your not using a ruffler foot, just use the tutorial I showed you earlier in the post.

Your fabric is all ruffled and "Purty"!!! Set aside.

Attach your "ZigZag" Foot back onto machine.

We are now going to create the headband :) Easy, easy! Place the ends together, with one side overlapping the other ...just a little and sew together!

Creating the ruffle flower! Take one of your felt circles and place a drop of hot glue in the center.

Grap your ruffled fabric and place one end of the fabric onto the hot glue...press down.

Start to rotate your ruffled fabric around and place another drop of hot glue onto the fabric you just placed....press fabric down onto that drop.

Holding center of flower, you are just going to rotate ruffled fabric around and around, placing hot glue to secure the ruffled fabric onto felt circle.

Taaadaaa! You have created a ruffled flower!!! Love.that.look, don't you?

Let's help the flower look a little bit more polished. All you will do is open the center of flower and drizzle hot glue at the base of center. Next step will be to grab center fabric and scrunch together for a few seconds.

NOW....we have a perfect flower!

Attaching flower to headband. Lay headband down with sewn edges face up. Place a thick line of hot glue onto band.

Attach flower to glued spot on band.

Finishing backside of flower. Drizzle hot glue onto back of flower and place 2nd felt circle onto that glue and press down.

DONE!

Hope you enjoyed today's tutorial!

{HUGS},

Steph

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Tuesday, January 10

"Miss B" & her Tea Party

Who doesn't {LOVE} a fun tea party??!!

Miss B and I put one on this morning. "Make-believe" can be so fun, dandy and sweet :) Especially when it's with your munchkin. When I had set the table with lovely treasures and pretty linens, Miss B looks up at me and says "Where's the food and tea?" lol... I looked down at her and said well this is where we pretend...OH! A light bulb came on!

Later that morning, I was editing the pictures and overheard her tell the "make-believe" friends "No, we are pretending...that's what momma said :)" Oh! I just love this age!!! Full of life and funny, funny sayings!

{Enjoy our sweet morning}

Ruffle Headband Tutorial in the works! I will be posting instructions on how to make this lovely accessory!!!

TUTORIAL: Ruffle Flower Headband {Picture} Tutorial

Have a beautiful day!

{HUGS},

Steph

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Wednesday, November 16

Ruffle Knee Socks {Tutorial}

Part I

(***Part I: I will show you how to make the Ruffle Knee Sock. Part II: I will show you how to complete the look of this sock with a bow using scrap knit***)

Tickled pink to be able to write this tutorial up for you lovelies!!

Recently, Miss B received a grey dress...loving grey right now!!

She needed an accessory that would compliment the dress! I instantly thought....

Ruffle Knee Socks

Found several ruffle knee socks to buy, but whoa nelly are they pricey! No thank you...I'll create my own. Here is for all you frugal mommy's, grandmas, or ladies looking for a cute baby shower gift~

I have a ruffle tights tutorial in the works for newborns.

So here we go, it may be a long tutorial but I like details when I'm fixing to create something that I don't have that person right next to me showing me how.

Miss B's Outfit:

Darling, Crocheted Pink & Grey Hat: Sparkleberry Crafts

Grey Dress: Target {LOVE that store}

Shoes: Yep, you guessed it...Target!

Supplies you need for these

{Ruffle Knee Socks}:

Knee socks ~ ones shown are a size 3-4 Gymboree

Knit fabric

Thread ~ to match knit

Pins

Scissors

Sewing Machine

Measure and cut your knit: The measurements will be different with size of sock. For Miss B's (using a size 3-4 sock) I measured out

5 1/2" Wide x 16" Length

Remember when measuring to cut, you want to have enough material for a large ruffle to go around sock and we will be draping the material for a top ruffle. Two ruffles total!

Folding knit and ruffling: Take your cut knit and fold. Your fold will not be in half, you will want it to be at least 1" to 1 1/2"short. If you need to, mark where your fold is. Let's get ready to sew our ruffle!

To make a "relaxed" ruffle (which is what I did for Miss B's), you will just simply scrunch up your fabric and sew. I usually do this with both hands, but with only having one hand for sewing and the other to take a picture...it was a little difficult :)

Make sure you do not scrunch up too much fabric at a time or you will not have enough to go around the whole sock.

Adding your ruffle to sock: Starting at the side of sock (inside ~ where my thumb is) this is where you will start pinning your ruffle onto the sock. That way it will be on the inside of legs where no one will see the seam. :)

Keep your ruffled fabric open, like shown below. Remember to keep shorter fold on top and longer on bottom.

When done pinning your fabric onto sock, if you have any excess ruffle fabric just layer. That is what I had to do.

Pinning is complete. Let's start sewing!

Sewing ruffle onto sock: This may be the most difficult part of this project. Just go slow and you will do great! Keeping ruffle open and starting at the side of sock where your ruffles meet, sew all the way around.

When you have completely sewn around your sock, this is what the result will look like. Two ruffles!

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Look at my little flapper girl! Just love her to pieces! See the bow on sides of each sock?? That is what I'll be showing you how to create in Part II of this project...so stay tuned!

{HUGS},

Steph

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