I love wearing things in my hair. And I love felt and sequins. Yeah! Enter the lightning headband!

Check out that ugly look on my face! But it’s dang hard to get a good pic of the side of your head!

Supplies needed:

• Scrap Paper
• Scissors
• Felt
• Needle and thread
• Sequin Trim
• Hot Glue
• 1/2″ Elastic

1.  Sketch a lightning-like shape on paper, and use it to cut a piece of felt. I used stiff glitter felt.

2. Start stitching the sequins around the edge of your bolt. Use a running stitch (Down through first sequin hole, through the felt, up through the felt again, and through the next sequin hole. Does that make sense?).

Stitch all the way down one side of the lightning.   I chose to sew it rather than use hot glue because trying to hot glue small things always ends up in a stringy mess for me.

3.  Leave a tail with five or six sequins at the end. Take the extra sequins off so the thread is loose.  Fold the loose thread to the back and stitch it into place. It’ll be hidden later.

Stitch sequins to the other side of the bolt. The reason I did it in two parts is that it’s hard to get a sharp pivot with the sequins at the tip of the lightning bolt.

4. Make sure your loose sequin thread ends are tucked in, and lay out the whole lightning bolt on a new piece of felt. Hot glue it down, then trim around it.  The messy side is now effectively covered with a fresh piece of felt.

5.  Measure out a piece of elastic for your head and sew the ends together (zigzag over the raw edge), or use a store bought elastic headband.  Make two short “tubes” around the headband using strips of felt and hot glue. The trick is that the tubes can still slide along the headband. Now hot glue .

6. Wear in your hair and be awesome!