Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Tea Party Bow Barrettes

With Spring/Summer here and the colder months behind us, I decided to take down the bonnets in my Evelyn & Flora Etsy shop and in their place sell hair barrettes and headbands. Ever fond of 'classic' styling I thought a simple bow would be true to Evelyn & Flora's signature style. After looking online, I came across this pattern which I immediatly fell in love with


Wanting a small bow that I could sew onto a hair clip or thin elastic baby headband, I slightly changed the pattern to suit my needs.

I used size 3 needles with a pima cotton blend fingering weight yarn. This is the same yarn I use in my booties, so the hair accessories could easily match :)

I casted on the same amount of stitches (13 for the main bow and 5 for the loop) but i worked the main bow for only 2 inches and the loop for 1in.

Rhinestones securely hot glued down the center really adds something special! The bow looked a little...blah without them, so i'm glad i had a baggie of rhinestones just hanging around ;)

I'm selling them as a pair, and here is a link to my shop if interested:


so far i've made these pink ones for Evelyn and I just got done knitting a pair of seafoam colored ones for Evelyn's friend Betty

The shop is selling not only pink and blue but also in lovely shades of green,ivory,purple,red and grey.

I also plan on ordering thin elastic headbands from this shop:


then sewing the bows unto them so hairless babies like my precious Flora can wear these adorable bows too :)

3 comments:

  1. oh my GOSH! ok, so here I am just cruising over to your blog to see what was going on, and i see my name/bow! ah! i love, love the bow. that photo of Evelyn drinking out of the mug is so adorable!

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  2. Aw Thanks! I'm glad you like my take at your design- it would suck if you had saw my post and was like... "what did she do with my pattern? rhinestone? how tacky." LOL

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  3. Bows are too cute, love them in that blue color.

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