{Tutorial} Make a Floppy Bow Tie Out of a Blouse

She needed a big floppy bow tie for her White Rabbit Costume.

We couldn't find one so we decided to make our own.

Out of a thrifted shirt of course--she wanted polka dots.

See everything we thrifted for this costume here.

 

{I did all this during the power outage and used my phone to take the photos.}

We had a generator running so I was able to plug in the iron.

First I cut a rectangle out of the back of the shirt and ironed it.

 

I used fusible interface to give the fabric a little stability.

I folded the rough edges of the rectangle and ironed them down with the fusible web.

I didn't measure, just eyeballed it.

Then I folded the rectangle into pleats (looks like one rough edge wasn't ironed down yet).

 

Once I had ironed all of the folds, I pinched it together to see how it would look and it passed inspection.

Onto the center of the tie.  I cut out another (smaller) rectangle

 and followed the same steps as I did with the larger one to finish it off.

I wrapped it around the center of the folded up tie to check it out. 

Looked ok to me.

I stitched the folds together.

Then I stitched the smaller rectangle around the bow tie.

A view from the back.

And the front...

I attached some elastic to the bow tie and voila

The White Rabbit had her tie!
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