Don’t you hate trying to decide how to fix your hair when you’re on vacation? I designed these DIY Fabric headbands using Liberty of London Fabric to help me tame my hair when I’m traveling. If you like this sewing tutorial you may also like this Liberty T-Shirt Sewing Project and these cute printables that you can attach to hair ties to make a sweet gift.
This last month has been an absolute whirlwind. I think when I sat down and counted I realized that I have been to 14 cities in the last 30 days. No wonder I’m so tired. This summer my oldest daughter had the opportunity to study abroad in London, once I found out she was going I decided that I was absolutely going to pick her up. The last time I was in London was in 1997, coincidentally when Princess Diana passed away. I’ve been wanting to go back ever since I left. I loved England on that first trip almost 20 years ago and I loved it even more when I visited this summer. The trip deserves a blog post of it’s own, but for now I thought I’d share with you a simple sewing project that I made to take with me on the trip. These DIY Fabric Headbands (made from Liberty of London fabric, of course)
Whenever I travel I get stuck between, wanting to look nice and dressing practically enough for walking around a city all day. I default to my standard pony tail hairstyle when I travel and I was trying not to do that this trip. I love headbands, but they don’t stay on my head for some reason (I must have an odly shaped head) a few years ago I bought a fabric headband that was glued to a skinny headband and it stayed on my head all day and didn’t give me a headache.
So the morning I left for the trip (yes, genius timing I know) I sat down and made two headbands. So when I say this is a simple sewing project, I’m not kidding. It’s fast.
I chose two of my favorite liberty prints (the one on the right is leftover from my Liberty t-shirt project) that I thought would match some of the clothing I had packed for the trip.
If you’d like to make one for yourself here’s how:
Supplies:
14″ x 6″ piece of lightweight cotton fabric. I used Liberty Lawn, but you could use a Voile also
skinny headband
Hot Glue
Sewing Machine
Construction:
That’s it!!
Easy peasy huh!! I think I’ll make a few more in Fall colors now that the weather is starting to turn.
and yep, I wore them in London and they came in VERY handy… Here’s my obligatory London phone booth photo….
Supplies:
Liberty of London Fabric – Fabric.com
other links:
These look great & you make them look so easy to make. I love your drawing. Coming by from Blogher. Lots of love, Lisa
I love these! And so clever! I must get some Liberty fabric next time I am in London (can’t buy those fabrics over here) and make one. London is just the greatest place, one of our favorite cities and only a 45 mins flight away for us. So we do try and go at least once a year for a weekend. Each time there are new things to discover. Thank you for the patter and you look lovely when you travel by the way!
Love these! Will have to source some skinny bands that don’t give me headache, I think I have a biggish head! By the way London phones are in boxes, never booths ;)
Thanks so much for this tutorial! I was looking for just this kind of thing while growing out a short hair cut. I made three tonight and I love them all!
You’re Welcome! Enjoy your headbands!
I love this tutorial and Love the way this headband updates my do! Only thing is that in your supplies list i think you forgot to add that we need 2 2×2 squares of fabric. It took me a minute to figure out that i was missing something. Otherwise Awesome!!!!
Oh thank you! I’ll add it to the supply list! Don’t know how I forgot about that.
Thank you for sharing your fabulous project ! I am researching for a 10 years old sewing theme party. This is something we can do! Please , can you provide more details about fabric dimentions? I will appreciate! Liz,
The dimensions are listed in the tutorial! Have fun sewing.