Turn your fabric right side out and iron (the seam should be in.

How to make fold over elastic headbands. Attach main headband piece to elastic. We'll also show you how to make a 1/8 headband with felt c. Buy a 5/8″ fold over elastic (or foe) which is 1.5cm.

Next, sew along the edge of the fabric. I add 2 inches to allow for the knot, so i cut it 9 inches long (folded in half). Place both strips on top of each other with the pattern facing in.

Stitch one end of the elastic to one of the accordion ends. Add the tube of main fabric over the elastic using a safety pin attached to. I made these with a tiny bit of sewing and no glue.

In this example we are using solid fold over elastic. Diy elastic hair ties and foe headbands tutorial step 1: I added an extra 14″ of elastic for a smaller bow, and about 21″ for the large one on norah’s picture above.

Fold the short ends step 5: Solid color foe is shiny on one side. Turn your headband inside out (matte side out) and open it up so you can see the line of stitching.

A headband made from foe. Layout the larger piece of fabric, right side up. Take pattern piece #1 and fold it in half (matching the two longer ends).