I made the elastic for my brown hair, so I chose the appropriate color scheme - brown and beige felt, brown and gold beads. I have a metal button decoration in the center. First, I cut out four squares from felt with sides of approximately 4x4 and 2.5x2.5 cm.
I put the large brown squares aside for now. I trimmed the beige squares around the perimeter with beads. I didn’t sew every bead, but every other bead. It’s faster this way, but nothing bulges. Then I sewed the corners of the beige square to the brown square to make a diamond shape.
I sewed a second beige square on top in the same way. Only the corners need to be overlapped with the sides of the bottom square.
I made a hole in the center with nail scissors. I secured the button stem in it. The button is metal and has a square shape, so it fits well with my craft. I cut off the corners of the large brown square.
I start sewing beads around the button – small brown ones and large gold ones.
Then beyond the perimeter of beige squares.
I have one brown square left. I apply it to the bottom of the elastic band and also cut off the corners. Since I sewed the beads and sewed the felt, there were rough seams on the back of the elastic. This detail - a brown square - will hide everything, and at the same time make the product thicker and stronger.
My brown felt is self-adhesive, so I just glue the two pieces together. But if the felt is simple, then the two parts can be sewn together with a decorative stitch. It will turn out very nice too.
All that remains is to sew on the elastic itself. For this I took a simple brown penny elastic band.
And it turned out to be such a wonderful hair decoration.
