Handmade Valentine’s Bow Tie Tutorial

A handmade gift is the best way to show that special someone how much they mean to you. With a few bits of fabric and an hour or two you can whip up a funky bow tie and make the perfect Valentines day gift (a great one for Father’s day too!)

Here’s what you need:

Main fabric -Quilting Cotton like Figo treehouse works brilliantly

Fusible interfacing

A set of 19mm bow tie clasps

Loop turner or chopstick

Matching thread

Basic sewing kit

Step 1:

Cut the following…

Main fabric;

2 x 25cm x 14cm

1 x 4cm x 8cm

1 x 5cm x 55cm

Interfacing;

2 x 25cm x 14cm

1 x 4cm x 8cm

Apply the iron on interfacing to the wrong side of the fabric

Step 2:

Take one the of the 25cm x 14 cm pieces and measure the centre point on each end. Fold the fabric to meet this middle point and press.

Step 3:

Fold the ends to meet in the middle and stitch down either side of the middle seam as close as possible to the raw edge.

Do the same with the other main bow tie piece and then with wrong sides facing each other, sandwich the two pieces together and stitch down the centre

Step 4:

Take the 4cm x 8cm piece and stitch down one end and one side, trimming the seams and turning through and pressing, this will be the centre of the bow.

Step 5:

Do the same with the long 5cm x 55cm piece (use a loop turner or chopstick to help push the fabric right sides out) this will make the bow tie strap

Step 6:

Now add the slider part of the clasp onto the raw end of the long neck strap, threading through, folding over and stitching down turning the raw edge under.

Step 7:

Attach the hook part onto the strap, hook facing out. Then thread the other end of the strap back though the slider part, this makes your adjustable strap!