Founding: How to Make a Bow Tie for Prom

This clock on Threadbanger, Hoo and Corinne have been showing you how to DIY your prom duds. Now information technology just wouldn't be fair if we merely worked on dresses for the girls. Sol, here's a simple tutorial on how to make a bow tie out of an superannuated scarf. To see more of threadbanger, support to us on itunes!

What you need:

An old scarf or 1 yard of framework
2 old ties
bowtie pattern (base on the threadbanger blog)
sewing machine
sissors
pins

Step 1: Getting Started

1. First matter is to get about one yard of framework. We exploited fabric from an old scarf we found at a thrift store.

2. Go to the Blog at Threadbanger.com and download the bow link pattern. Scratch out the design from a large sheet of paper.

Gradation 2: The Shape

3. Invest your form along top of your scarf joint, going enough room to cut down another pattern. Pin it down and cut it out. In one case you've cut out the pattern once, lay it toss off on the remaining fabric, tholepin it out and cut IT unconscious again.

4. Lay your two pieces on top of each another and then that the correct sides are facing each other. Pin them together and sew together along the edges. But, make sure you leave a 1-2 column inch gap in the very middle.

5. Victimization something wish a pencil or a paintbrush, turn the bow tie unturned.

Step 3: The Inner Facing

6. Grab two old ties, and with kid gloves bump off the inner facing from the intermediate.

7. Lay the inner facings connected crown of each other so that the bigger ends are opposite of each former, roughly about the size of your bowtie. Simply pin them in the middle. Lay your bow tie connected overstep, to check the distance, and sew the two pieces of inner facing together. Knap the extra pieces (the thin portion of the inner facings).

8. Lay the tie down on the inner facing. Pin the tie down, and cut the shape on the inner facing.

9. Forthwith, rightful cut-in your inner facing done that little breach you socialist open, again victimization that pencil Oregon paintbrush to push out all of the corners flat.

Step 4: The Last

10. Lastly, sew up the spread, run off an branding iron over the whole thing and you've got yourself a ste tie.

If you are a girl, and feel as if you may beryllium in need of a new enclothe for the prom rather than a bow tie, check taboo our episode at Threadbanger.com, operating theater our Instructable on how to create an ultra-cool prom dress out of a vintage 80's dress. Today, if you lack to discover how to sleeper a bow tie, you are watching the wrong tutorial. Suss out some videos at Youtube. But, once you latch on, you'll be an living hunk at the prom!

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