wool felt barretts
Saturday, July 25, 2009 
These barretts are my take on the felt barretts from Angry Chicken. I could never sew a neat line around my barretts so I just decided to hand stitch them. It's fun to embellished these with hand stitched monograms, days of the week, and names of famous world cities. Enjoy!
Supplies
A- Felt (I love wool felt, but the craft felt works well to)!
B- Fabric pen
C- Embroidery or Craft Thread
D- Scissors
E- Needle
F- Snap Barrettes (I found them for a good price at a beauty supply store)
Step 1
Trace barrette twice onto your felt using your fabric pen.
Step 2
On one of your traced felt barrettes, mark in-between the back snap as shown in picture (in red).
Step 3
Cut out your barrettes about 1/8" from the trace lines.
Step 4
Cut a slit from red dot to red dot.
Step 5
Thread your needle and knot your thread on one end.
Step 6
Sandwich the two felt barrette pieces together and bring thread up through the skinny end of the top felt piece (this will hide your knot).
Step 7
Blanket-stitch up to the wide end of the felt sandwich and stop stitching.
Step 8
Slide the metal barrette into the sandwich sliding the skinny snap through the slit in the back felt piece. See the pictures. Now snap the metal barrette shut
Step 9
Continue to blanket-stitch back to the starting point, enclosing the metal barrette as you go. Turn barrette over (as shown in picture), knot and cut your thread.
Finished Barrette:
