NeedleWorkMonday: An Ankara hair clip For My daughter

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Hello beautiful friends here @needleworkmonday is another wonderful week, do have a favourable week ahead. It has been a while but I am back , I had some project that took my time but thanks to God for the grace to finish strong and so I am back to as well contribute my quota towards the development of this community

And so my daughter asked me to make for her an Ankara hair clip,so I decided to pick one of the remain of my fabric to make for her the above hair clip.

Materials used

  • Ankara fabric

  • Needle and thread

  • A circular pattern to draw the circle

  • Scissors

  • Chalk to mark out the circular pattern

  • Feathers for designs

  • A fancy pearl for designs as well

  • The clip pin

  • Candle gum

  • Glue gun or matches

  • Iron

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Procedures

  • Step one: use the circular pattern to draw out six circular shapes from the ankara

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  • Step 2: use scissors to cut out the circular pattern already drawn

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  • Step 3: After cutting out the circular pattern ,you iron it one after the other by folding into two different shapes

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  • Step 4: Repeat the process for the six cut out circular pattern to arrive at a particular pattern

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  • Step 5: double your thread in a needle

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  • Step 6: begin the sewing of the folded material one after the other

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  • Step 7 : After sewing the six circular pattern together at the end tie the thread firmly to achieve togetherness of the fabric and cut off the excess thread

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  • Step 8: finish the sown hair clip by attaching the necessary material

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*Step 9 : melt the candle gum with matches or use a glue gun to attach your assessories to the already down Ankara fabric

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And finally the finished work

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Thanks 🙏 you for staying through out the process see you next week

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This is lovely dear, I am so making a larger version of this as hair cover and not just a hair clip

Thanks 🙏 dear for your encouragement I truely appreciate