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Hi its Laura From Hair-Hardware Today 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 that I 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 back and some tall spikes.
The supplies I used are a boutique bow that has been pre made. A salon clip, some pieces
of quarter inch sheer bow tying ribbon. These 2 spikes I have already pre made.
I'm gonna use this piece to make the horizontal spike across the back.
I'm going to use just an ordinary pin to keep it all aligned while I'm tying it.
Okay to cut the ends of the spikes you are going 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 starting from the fold.
And then your going have - when you open it all up.
You are gonna have symetrical cut spikes on both sides.
I'm gonna use my wood burner to head seal those edges.
Just be careful to keep it nice and even and straight 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 cut ends 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 that I'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 perfectly centered and symetrical with each other while
you tie them off.
So you are going to take your salon clip and place 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 inch bow tying ribbon and loop it around. You can
remove the pin now.
Okay just bring the quarter inch ribbon to the 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 spikes here that are nice and tall.
Set those aside for a minute and we are going to tie the horizontal one for the back.
You are really just tying the one piece of ribbon and here I'm just putting in the pin.
Just to keep it centered. The only reason to tie this is for the look.
You want it to have the cinched look in the middle. If you try to just put this flat against
the back of a bow its just not gonna look right.
So your gonna just bring the ribbon around again just like we did for the tall spikes
and just tie it in the middle.
Okay, so you can just take that from the salon clip now.
And now we are going to stack the pieces together.
So I'm going to take the glue gun and I'm gonna put a little bit of glue right in the
middle of the horizontal spike which is what I want to be the piece right on the back of
the bow.
Then I'm gonna take the tall spikes and lay them directly on top - like that.
And then I'm going to add another little dot of 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 on the top. You have the tall spikes in the middle
and you have the horizontal spikes in the back.
Just make sure you lay them nice and tall on top of each other. Don't lay anything side
by side.
You don't need these pieces anymore. So I'm just gonna cut them off.
Okay now I want to make sure those spikes stay nice and tall and exactly where I want
them to be so I"m going to put a little bit of glue between the bow and the spike.
Then I'm going to lay the spike exactly where I want it to stay.
I'm gonna do this for every spike in the bow.
Just make sure that when you lay it down on the glue it is exactly where you want it to
be because you will have a hard time trying to pull that off and adjust it.
I always do the tall spikes first.
Just a little bit of glue and then press it to the bow.
Just make sure you pull it back so that you can't see any of the glue from the front.
And now we are going to do the horizontal spike 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 you want it to stay.
Repeat for the other side.
Okay, now all you have to do is add the center knot.
The hardware on the back.
And you spike hair bow is complete.