Tights to Headband Tutorial
Having two girls, I loved them wearing dresses all of the time, and I particularly fell in love with tights. Tights with bright funky patterns, flowers, stripes, polka dots, you name it. After they grew out of some of them I was trying to think of how I could still use this fun material, so I thought they would work great as headbands!!
This tutorial can take 5 minutes or less if you have all your sewing gear out and ready to go. It’s so fast and easy, and it’s a great first sewing project!!
The Materials:
- old tights
- sewing machine
- matching thread
The Directions:
Cut the top of the tights off and the feet off to make 2 tubes. You only need one tube, unless you want to make 2 headband (so dirty, yikes...). Cut your tube to the appropriate length so the tube fits around your child's head loosely.
Put the right sides together.
Carefully sew the right sides together all the way around, leaving a 1'' opening.
Don't stretch the fabric as you sew around.
Tuck the opening in.
Sew the opening closed.
The sewed together opening should look like this (or better:).
All done!
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What an inspiration! The headband looks darling, and I’ll bet it is very comfortable to wear, too!
How cool! I will definitely be trying this out! Our girls have more tights than they use, and they would love headlbands.
It is so nice to use something that isn’t used anymore! Thanks for visiting!