women's hair bows

hi its laura from hair-hardwaretoday i'm going to show you how to make ribbon spikes for your hair bows.we are gonna learn how to make tall spikes and the horizontal spikes in the back thati showed you in the picture. here is an example of the finished bow.its using 1 and 1/2 inch grosgrain ribbon and has a horizontal spike across the backand some tall spikes. the supplies i used are a boutique bow thathas been pre made. a salon clip, some pieces of quarter inch sheer bow tying ribbon. these2 spikes i have already pre made. i'm gonna use this piece to make the horizontalspike across the back. i'm going to use just an ordinary pin to keepit all aligned while i'm tying it.

okay to cut the ends of the spikes you aregoing to fold the ribbon in half and then fold it in half again the long way like that. and you are going to cut on an angle startingfrom the fold. and then your going have - when you open itall up. you are gonna have symetrical cut spikes onboth sides. i'm gonna use my wood burner to head sealthose edges. just be careful to keep it nice and even andstraight as you are heat sealing it because you will be able to see the ends of the spikes. so just run the wood burner across the cutends so you won't have any problems with fraying.

okay so i'm gonna put this aside for the moment. now i'm going to take the two spikes thati'm going to use to make the tall spikes in the back. i'm gonna lay them across each other,fold them in half and then stick a pin in that folded area. okay now this is just going to hold them perfectlycentered and symetrical with each other while you tie them off. so you are going to take your salon clip andplace it right in there so that the pin sticking out the back. just make sure the pin is centered. and then your gonna take your quarter inchbow tying ribbon and loop it around. you can

remove the pin now. okay just bring the quarter inch ribbon tothe back and tie it off nice and tight. now you can remove it from the salon clip. and as you can see you have a pair of spikeshere that are nice and tall. set those aside for a minute and we are goingto tie the horizontal one for the back. you are really just tying the one piece ofribbon and here i'm just putting in the pin. just to keep it centered. the only reasonto tie this is for the look. you want it to have the cinched look in themiddle. if you try to just put this flat against the back of a bow its just not gonna lookright.

so your gonna just bring the ribbon aroundagain just like we did for the tall spikes and just tie it in the middle. okay, so you can just take that from the salonclip now. and now we are going to stack the pieces together. so i'm going to take the glue gun and i'mgonna put a little bit of glue right in the middle of the horizontal spike which is whati want to be the piece right on the back of the bow. then i'm gonna take the tall spikes and laythem directly on top - like that. and then i'm going to add another little dotof glue in the middle of that.

and i'm going to put the bow on the top. so you have 3 layers. you have the bow onthe top. you have the tall spikes in the middle and you have the horizontal spikes in theback. just make sure you lay them nice and tallon top of each other. don't lay anything side by side. you don't need these pieces anymore. so i'mjust gonna cut them off. okay now i want to make sure those spikesstay nice and tall and exactly where i want them to be so i"m going to put a little bitof glue between the bow and the spike. then i'm going to lay the spike exactly wherei want it to stay.

i'm gonna do this for every spike in the bow. just make sure that when you lay it down onthe glue it is exactly where you want it to be because you will have a hard time tryingto pull that off and adjust it. i always do the tall spikes first. just a little bit of glue and then press itto the bow. just make sure you pull it back so that youcan't see any of the glue from the front. and now we are going to do the horizontalspike on the back. so pull back the horizontal spike just a little bit. place some glue in the middle.

carefully place it down exactly where youwant it to stay. repeat for the other side. okay, now all you have to do is add the centerknot. the hardware on the back. and you spike hair bow is complete.