How to make a fold over elastic headband

You will need

16mm FOE Elastic and the following lengths depending on your size you are making your headbands.

Cut your fold over elastic to length and heat seal your ends with a lighter or candle.  Becareful not to touch the flame, you just want to put the elastic close enough to melt the edge a little.

Overlap your ends about 1cm and sew together you can machine or hand sew.
I machine sew with a zig zag stitch.  Or you can hot glue and press together.

Take a small lenght of FOE elastic to make a interchangable headband. Seal the ends. Put a dab of hot glue on the back of the headband and glue the sealed end.

Rap strip around the headband so it sits flat and cut it to length and seal the end and put a dap of hot glue on the back and glue down.
You now have a interchangable headband. You can add a fabric flower, or ribbon hair bow.

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