Not jewelry today. A hairbow instead. My nieces daughter always wears a bow in her hair so I made this for her. I started with grosgrain ribbon & made a 4" 8 loop bow. Next I made a 2" 8 loop bow so that it would have 2 layers. I found a button in my stash for the center. Then I made a circle of round pearls to go under the button. The next round of stitching was rice shaped pearls between the round ones. To make the rice pearls lay nice I used blue lined clear size 6 seed beads in groups of 3 between the pearls. To tighten this round I sewed through the outside 2 of the 3 beads & it made a picot. When I stitched the button in the center it was kind of floppy so I used a netting stitch to support it. The center is quite tall because of the height of the button.When it was all fastened together I attached it to a barrette. When I first envisioned this in my head I was going to stitch something sparkly on each loop end but when I found the button the design changed. I hope she likes it. I had fun doing something different.
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