Hair bows can be personalized with monograms.
In decades past, monograms were used on household items like towels, dish towels and handkerchiefs when a couple got married. Many people have their children's clothing and accessories monogrammed. Hair bows are an easy item to personalize with a monogram. If you don't want to make the entire hair bow, you can start with a bow you like and add the monogrammed button to the center of it.
Instructions
1. Place your piece of fabric on top of the interfacing and cut around the fabric so the fabric and interfacing are the same size. Keep the two pieces together.
2. Use the embroidery machine to stitch the letter you want to monogram onto the center of the fabric and interfacing. The right side of the letter should be on the right side of the fabric. It doesn't need to be perfectly centered, but you need room to cut enough fabric to cover the button.
3. Measure the button that came with your kit. Draw a circle double the diameter of the button on a sheet of paper and cut it out. This is your pattern.
4. Fold the paper in half. Unfold it, turn it 90 degrees and fold it in half again. Make a small mark with the pencil where the two folds intersect. This is the center of the circle.
5. Turn your embroidered fabric upside-down so the interfacing is facing up. Line up the center of the paper pattern with the center of your embroidered letter.
6. Trace around the pattern.
7. Place the button on top of the letter and trace around it.
8. Cut out the outer circle (the one that was drawn with the paper pattern).
9. Lift the interfacing away from the fabric and cut only the interfacing on the center circle that you drew with the button.
10. Spread glue on the top of the button.
11. Place the button on the fabric piece, centering it on the interfacing. Place the button with the fabric over it into the white rubber piece from the button cover kit. Turn the white piece over and check that the letter is still centered.
12. Place the blue piece on top of the white piece to flatten the fabric against the button. Make sure that all of the fabric edges are pulled in toward the center of the button.
13. Place the back of the button on top of the fabric and put the blue piece back on top. Press down to snap the back into place.
14. Pop the button out of the white piece.
15. Hand stitch the back of the button onto the center of the hair bow.
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