Hello Hive

Today we have the wedding of one of my friends and a hiver in this community, Marylove, and I want to use this medium to make a headcover for myself. In recent times, I usually feel very confident wearing a head cover each time I am going to church, but because we have seen some traditional African print fabric for ourselves, it will be totally odd to wear an English beret over our outfits. I have never made a head cover before and really wish to wear something beautiful and decent for the occasion; hence, I decided to see if I could create something fashionable.

I have been a good friend to Marylove and have onboarded her to the hive ever since I noticed her creative skills in fashion. I didn't want to mention her name here because I believe that she is coming to give us the full gist of her love story, and I don't want to be a spoiler. It is a beautiful thing to see two hearts become one, and coming to celebrate these people and give them a lovely album is always worth it.

The outfit for the occasion is almost ready, and I will be heading out at about 10 a.m. this morning to grace the occasion, but before that, I had to be sure that I dressed well with something fashionable to cover my hair.

To do this, I picked up these items.

• Pieces of the sewn fabrics
• White materials
• Bonings
• A candle gum

Actually, I wanted to surprise everyone by showing them that one can use traditional fabric to make any type of matching headband for themselves that will look modern. The fabric may be an African print, but we can make something out of it that will match other outfits.

Process

• Started with adding some stay to make the fabric stiffer to work with.

• Next, I weaved the edges of the fabrics with my interlock machine.

• I created some circles to pleat the white fabrics all around it.

• The next process I got some bonings, cut a piece of fabric, and stitched them to cover the boning. This will add the elegance required to the headwear.

• Then here I used candle gum to stick in some decorative materials to cover the rough edges.

Then I needed to add a band or rope that I could use to tie it around my head.

This is simple to make, yet very elegant and useful for a stylish head cover. Besides, one can make use of very cheap materials to make something as beautiful as this.

Thank you all for coming around; for now, I am off to enjoy some partying.