S’more Decorating Magic: Bow Making!

S’more Decorating Magic! Bow Making 101

Hello, all my Christmas loving friends! S’more the elf here with just the thing to make your Christmas magical… a BIG CHRISTMAS BOW! We have some how-to tips for s’more decorating magic with bow making!

As you can see, I am a bit tied up at the moment. So, I will just cut to the chase and hand the keyboard over to Mrs. C. for the remainder of the blog.

How to Make Bows:

Ribbon and bows add so much beauty to a tree, but ribbon can be difficult to work with for beginners. However, bows are simple to attach to a tree with a little green floral wire.

We are happy to make bows for you using the ribbon we sell. There is just a small cost for labor. However, if you would like to make the bows yourself, here are some simple steps.

1. Cut a long piece of green floral wire with wire cutters.
2. Fold the wire in half.
3. Measure the ribbon you wish to work with, but don’t cut it. An average bow uses about 3 yards of ribbon. However, you may need more or less depending on the size of the bow. Wider ribbon work best for making bigger bows, while narrow ribbon works best for smaller bows, but you don’t have to follow that rule every time.
4. Find the approximate middle of the length of ribbon to be the middle of your bow. I measure about a yard and a half from the end. Another option is to find the exact middle of your ribbon to be the center of your bow, and any leftover ribbon will be two long tails.
5. Fold the ribbon in a small loop in right in the center of your length of ribbon and secure with the middle of your wire wrapped around tight and twisted a couple times.
6. Next, using the side of the ribbon that is the shortest, loop your first side loop of ribbon, make sure it looks bigger than your center loop and about half the width of what you want the bow to be.
7. After you fold over each loop of ribbon, twist more floral wire around the base of the loop to hold the ribbon snuggly together with the center of the bow.
8. Keep looping ribbon and twisting floral wire around, making a ring of loops around your center loop. You will probably end up with three loops from your shorter side of ribbon.
9. After you use most of the short side of ribbon, continue with the longer side of ribbon until you have five or six big loops around the one small, center loop.
10. Next, push some of the wire through some already secured wire and twist with the other end of your wire tightly to secure the entire bow together.
11. Lastly, you can trim the tails of the ribbon to the length you want and to make them look pretty. For this particular tree, I made several bows in a row, though.

They say a video is worth a thousand words. So, Mrs. C. has created a handy dandy YouTube to show you how it’s done.

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