- Hello, I'm Julie Siomacco with Southern Charm Wreaths,
where we make beautiful wreaths
and teach you how to make and sell them.
In this video, I wanna show you how to make a Funky Bow.
This is my signature bow and I'm gonna teach you
how to make a fall version.
I've been teaching thousands of people online
how to successfully master the art of wreath making
through my online tutorials
and Wreath Making of the Month Club.
And when they came to me with their problem
of what to do when they have a lot of ribbon left
but not enough to make a traditional bow,
I quickly dubbed it my Funky Bow.
So this is my signature bow,
developed just for them, but now I wanna show it
to you here using the fall ribbon.
So this is the fall version of my Funky Bow.
So let's get started.
So the first thing you can do is cut your ribbon.
I'm going, it's, first of all,
I'm gonna say it's different for every wreath.
But for this demonstration and for the wreath
I'm gonna be using it for,
I cut two pieces
that are a little bit longer than a yard, okay?
So I've got a 2 1/2-inch, I got a 1 1/2-inch.
Both of these are wired.
Well, actually, all of the ribbon
I'm gonna be using today is wired.
Then I've got three pieces that are cut 32 inches long,
approximately 32 inches long.
So the first thing I'm gonna do,
I'm gonna get my wire ready.
Get my wire ready.
And I'm gonna take my 2 1/2-inch, the longer piece,
and I'm gonna measure about 16,
let's do 18-inch tail.
And then I'm going to pinch,
lay it down on the mat to measure out 12 inches,
bring it to the back,
and then flip.
All right, so this is how your bow should look now.
This is the beginning of your Funky Bow.
I'm going to take the other ribbon
that looks just like this and I'm gonna measure out
about 9 or 10 inches.
And now instead of having the streamer start at the bottom,
it's gonna start from above my thumb.
So right now, I'm gonna just take this and pinch it,
pleat it into my two fingers right here.
So we have a streamer going up at the top.
Lay this down, measure the 12 inches,
and then bring it to the back.
And then twist this to the front.
So now all of your good side of your ribbon
should be facing you.
You should have a long streamer,
a short streamer on the bottom.
You've got your two rabbit ear loops
and you've got two short streamers on the top,
just like that.
So the next thing I'm gonna do is use my next
1 1/2-inch ribbon and I'm going to do the same thing
that I just did.
Measure my 12-inch loop.
This ribbon's a little flopsy.
It's not as thick.
The wire's not as thick, but it's still, it'll work.
I can make it work.
All right, so now you can see
I've got two loops on the bottom, one loop on the top.
The next thing I wanna do is take my longer piece
of my 1 1/2-inch ribbon and I'm gonna turn it over this way,
measure out to get my long streamer,
just like I did my first one,
pinch it into my fingers,
measure out my 12 inches, bring it to the back,
pinch it into my fingers and then twist.
Again, I'm always twisting so that the good side
of the ribbon is facing forward.
So now we've got two loops on the top of my thumb,
two loops on the bottom of my thumb.
And again, all of the ribbon should be facing you,
should be the good side of the ribbon.
And then, I'm gonna go ahead and do my next,
and I'm gonna alternate again.
Starting with my streamer at the top of my thumb,
lay my loops down,
measure to the back,
and then I just bring those loops to the front,
just like that.
And so that's what we have.
We've got three ribbon loops on the bottom,
two ribbon loops on the top.
Again, you can use more ribbon if you want to.
You can also use all of the same ribbon.
You can do it all in 2 1/2-inch ribbon,
or you can do it all in 1 1/2-inch ribbon.
So I love the versatile
option of this Funky Bow tutorial
or the Funky Bow technique.
So once you have all of this in your hands,
and you can see, my ribbon,
it does not stay on the tips of my fingers.
As I, it does when I first start,
but then as I gradually start adding more ribbon
in beside the next ribbon,
the center of my bow starts to move more
into the grip of my hand.
So now that I've got my florist wire,
or you can use pipe cleaner,
you're gonna flip it over,
and I'm going to lift my pointer finger right here
to slide that wire right underneath.
And then I'm going to fold the bow,
I'm gonna rotate the bow over,
and at the same time, I'm gonna fold the wire around.
So I'm rotating the bow and wire is going around.
Now the wire is on the back of the bow.
But before I twist, just gonna position my bow loops.
If your hand starts to cramp,
you might be holding your bow too tight.
So you don't have to have a death grip on it,
but just hold it enough so that it doesn't come loose.
Right, so now I'm gonna turn this over
and twist the bow.
When you twist the bow, it makes the wire a lot tighter
than if you were gonna twist the wire.
All right, and that's how we have made our Funky Bow.
And then the next thing I would do
is just move my ribbon loops around a little bit,
which is easier to do once you get it on the wreath.
But there you have it.
A very simple bow technique
that I've dubbed the Funky Bow.
There you have it, a beautiful bow.
It's not your traditional bow.
It's a little easier to make in my opinion,
and you get to use a lot more texture
without having to add so much ribbon.
So I love this bow technique.
Comment below, tell me what you think.
Remember you can use this for any fall season, right,
any fall bows.
You can use this for Christmas and spring
and all the different holidays.
Make sure to, don't be afraid to switch up
the textures of your bow and all of the different colors.
Be creative.
So there are no rules here.
You can think outside the box.
And let me know what you think about this bow.
I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.
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