Baptism Headband

I’ll start this post by saying I had grand plans for this day.  Even before I knew our third child was a girl, I always said I was holding onto my wedding dress to do something with it for my daughter’s baptism day.  In my mind that meant making her dress from mine.  In reality that dress making dream turned into making a sweet headband two days before her baptism instead because {let’s be real here}, I have three kids under the age of three now, and “ain’t nobody got time for that.”

Now, maybe if your wedding dress cost a pretty penny you would perhaps be a bit reluctant to start cutting away at it.  As far as wedding dresses go, mine definitely did not cost thousands.  It was a reasonably priced dress that I fell in love with from good ‘ole David’s Bridal, the Old Navy of bridal boutiques.  Therefore, I wasn’t reluctant at all.  This was my plan all along.  I suppose if we never had a little girl I would have just donated it or taken it to a consignment store.

Before I begin, here’s one last shot of the dress in all it’s glory about 20 minutes after I married this handsome guy…

Oh, to be that well-rested again!  Someday my kids will all sleep through the night and past 6:30 in the morning, right?!

To make the headband, I needed just a few other materials besides my wedding dress:

good scissors
seam ripper
hot glue/glue gun
foldover elastic

When I sat down to make the headband, plan A was to use some of the actual fabric from the dress to make sweet little rosette fabric flowers.  I quickly realized that they just didn’t look right.  Maybe I’m simply not good at making fabric flowers {and that very well could be the case}, but they just seemed to big and awkward for her little baby head.  So, onto plan B…the applique details on my dress.

I used my seam ripper to separate the applique details from my dress and then cut smaller portions of that to simply glue onto her headband.  So, instead of one or two flowers on her headband, it sort of turned into a piece that extended pretty much around the entire front of her head.

I glued everything in place with a hot glue gun and once little miss woke from her nap that day, I measured it against her head to determine where to cut and tie it off.

And I absolutely loved it on her.  It was so cool to know that not only had I made it for her, but it was a way to combine two very significant days together!