Weave Your Way

Hi lovelies!  I have a little sort of DIY.  It's very easy and somewhat obvious, so sorry for not providing anything particularly exciting or overly innovative!

Recently I've amassed a slightly ridiculous amount of headbands, all with the same design, but in an array of colours.  See below....

I absolutely love them, and clearly have one for every outfit imaginable(!) but maybe I have a weird shaped head or something, as they never sit well on my head.  Which is true of all elasticated headband type things.  I end up taking them off when I get annoyed of them slipping, or just not wearing them, which is both a shame and waste of cash!  So today, whilst trying to wear the yellow one (and using grips to try and pin it to my head) I got annoyed once again and decided I would cut the elastic off and glue the woven band to a alice band.  I have plenty of plain ones I never use (other than to keep hair off my face when in the shower or applying make-up) and thought I'd put them to a better use!  

See supplies below (although I've just realised my scissors and glue gun aren't in the picture, so as opposed to being a 'supplies' photo it's more of a 'stuff I'm going to cut and glue together' photo.  Bear with me)...

I started off by snipping the elastic bottom parts off the band completely.

Then I pretty much just started gluing!  Both the original and the plain bands must be pretty standard in size (which confirms I do not have a standard head) as they seemed to be the same in length and fit.

I glued at each end of the band, and also at the (slightly off-centre) larger woven part.  I'm hoping this is enough hold.  As it's a woven design, I think trying to glue the whole thing down may be a bit of a hoo-ha.

As you can see, the fit is pretty spot on.  They all ended up like this.

Here's a closer look at the inside.  Basically it's glued along the centre of the big weave part.

Here's the end result!  Pretty and wearable satiny headbands!  I'm really pleased!

Turns out I have 7.  One for every day of the week?!

lots of love, gwynypie

xoxos