How To Tie A Decorative Bow

Learn how to make a bow for wreaths, gifts, Christmas tree toppers, and more. Wreaths are a good idea for decorating your front door.

A gorgeous handmade bow adds a nice bear on to your wreath. There are many different ways to make a ribbon bow; however, this i is the easiest. These are perfect for decorating wreaths, Christmas gifts, Christmas trees, lanterns, and more than.

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What Supplies Do I Need

I admire making bows; nonetheless, I recollect my first few failed attempts at making them. Since then, I have learned to create many unlike ribbon bows. Additionally, I enjoy sharing my favorite ways to brand a bow; yous can observe more than bow tutorials in my ultimate bow-making guide.

Ribbons

Selecting ribbon is the best part of bow making. There are a ton of unlike types of ribbons. However, my favorite ribbon to make a bow is wired ribbon since it makes shaping bows super piece of cake. The wire as well helps the ribbon bow maintain the shape of both the loops and tails.

I prefer using a wider ribbon of two 1/2 inches for wreath bows. Yet, my favorite ribbon for my DIY bows is a wired burlap ribbon.

Zero Tie and Wire

After y'all "tie" your bow, you will need a naught-necktie or a slice of floral wire to concord your bow together. You tin besides use a chenille stem or pipage cleaner to cinch and hold it together. I like to use a chenille stalk that matches the ribbon. Therefore, I keep a multifariousness of colors on hand.

Wire Cutters and Pair of scissors

I like to employ sharp scissors and heavy-duty wire cutters (my favorite ones) when making bows and crafting.

How to Brand a Bow out of Ribbon

I used a 2 1/2 inch wide wired ribbon to make this elementary bow. The first step is determining the bow size you would like to make. Once yous know the size, yous will make a loop with the ribbon, so loop your ribbon around the first loop 2 more than times. Be sure to start and stop the ribbon circles a petty before the center starts and a footling after to finish.

Note: The number of loops on each side volition be equivalent to the corporeality of ribbon "circles" you lot make. In other words, if you lot make three ribbon circles of ribbon, you will have iii loops on each side of your bow.

Make 3 ribbon loops

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two. Cut the ribbon off simply well-nigh an inch by the center.

Cut the 3 loops of ribbon.

3. To form the streamer or tails, fold a slice of ribbon in half just a little longer than your desired final length and cut the ribbon.

Cut ribbon for bow streamer.

4. To form the bow, compression the center of the iii ribbon circles.

Pinch together the center of ribbon loops

5. Next, pinch the center of your stream tail and hold it on the pinched loops' center bottom.

Add the streamer ribbon

6. Use a nothing tie (the 1 I used) around the center of the bow's loops. Be certain to pull it tight before trimming off the nil tie with your wirecutter (this one is my favorite). Please note: if you lot want to attach the bow to a wreath with wire or a chenille stem, place it on the dorsum of your bow and then zip tie the bow and chenille stem together.

Use a null tie to secure in the centre.

7. The center ribbon knot is simple to make. Cut a piece of ribbon, and then make a knot in the eye of your ribbon. Use the tails of your ribbon knot to tie it effectually the middle of the bow. Note: you tin use another ribbon for the middle knot.

Add a ribbon knot around the center.

8. Y'all can tie the knotted ribbon effectually the center of the bow and leave the tails long enough to attach the bow to a wreath, as a lantern bow, Christmas tree bow, swag bow, or souvenir wrapping bow. Y'all tin as well use hot mucilage or floral wire to attach the bow.

Fluffing

9. To fluff the bow, I get-go with the inside left loop and pull information technology to the lesser, and and then I take hold of the loop on the contrary side and practice the same thing. I leave the loop on top every bit the heart loop and pull out from the top, ever leaving the center's superlative loop. All the same, you may like to arrange them the opposite either way is gorgeous.

Pulling the ribbon loops out

Finish fluffing the wired ribbon

ten. Now, your wreath bow is ready to be attached to your wreath grade. If you added a wire or chenille stem to the zip tie, you could wire the bow to your wreath. Still, you can utilise a hot glue gun and glue information technology to your wreath, or you can pin it in place.

Learning to make the perfect bow only takes a few minutes and no special tools!

These gorgeous bows all accept a farmhouse-inspired vibe with the buffalo check or burlap ribbon. Nonetheless, if yous use a satin ribbon to make this bow, it will look elegant.

I used blackness and white buffalo check ribbon for this DIY ribbon bow. The ribbon choice is perfect for all-year apply.

Farmhouse Black and white buffalo check

Burlap wired ribbon bows are the near popular since they are lovely for wreaths, weddings, gifts, crafting, and decorating.

Wired Border Ribbon Wreath Bow

You lot tin can make this bow with a grosgrain ribbon for a hair bow or a wide ribbon for decorating.

I made this handmade wood piece wreath from a fallen tree in my yard. I like the woods slices' rustic farmhouse look, and I relish buffalo check ribbon, so combining these two elements was a must.

Woods Slices Wreath

Make a rustic Farmhouse wreath with buffalo plaid ribbon

Making a Bow

Multi Ribbon Bow

Fall is my favorite time of year, and to celebrate, I like to create a gorgeous new bow for my fall wreath. I shared how I made this multi Ribbon bow in an earlier mail service. It is an easy bow to make but looks and so elegant. This bow is so gorgeous that I had to apply it on my Christmas wreath.

Piece of cake DIY Bow

You know I Dear Goodwill shirts, pumpkins! And so I took it one stride further, fabricated a door hanger with a Goodwill shirt, and added this Easy DIY Bow. This 2-loop b0w with curt tails is merely what my door hanger needed.

I Ribbon

This one ribbon bow has a heart loop, right and left loop (add as many loops as you wish), and tails.

DIY Double Ribbon Bow Step-by-Pace

The Double Ribbon Bow is gorgeous and easy to make. See how to make this bow i on my YouTube video.

Notation: This 1 makes the perfect Christmas tree topper bow too.

Double Ribbon Bow Supplies

This bow does non crave any fancy tools, simply a few items you lot probably have on hand.

Ribbon (red and white) and (black and white)
Zip tie
Scissors

I recommend that yous utilize ii unlike ribbons that are the same width.

Dupioni Ribbons

Step 1. Identify one ribbon on top of the other and treat it equally one ribbon. And so, trim off the ends of the ribbon.

Identify the ribbons together

Step 2. Curlicue the finish of the ribbons to form a centre loop.

Centre loop

Step 3. Next, form the side loops of the bow. If y'all use a one-sided ribbon, you will need to twist the ribbon for each loop.

Add side loops

Stride iv. Form loops on each side of the center loop, going dorsum and forth every bit you add the loops.

Adding loops

Note: You lot can cull to brand all the side loops the aforementioned size, or y'all tin make each set of side loops a fiddling larger. I made a total of iv double-side loops and one center loop.

Adding the streamers

Stride v. To form the streamers (tails), I make a behemothic loop and then cut off the remaining ribbon.

Making a large ribbon loop for the tails

Step 6. Then I pinch the heart of all the loops and secure information technology with a naught tie.

Secure loops with a cypher tie

Step seven. The next step is fluffing the bow.

Fluffing

Step eight. To form the chevron, cutting ends for the streamers, I fold the stream ribbons in one-half length-wise and then fold over again width-wise too.

Cut streamer tails

Attaching to the wreath

Rustic Christmas Wreath

You can make this funky, fun bow with up to eight different ribbons. It is the perfect fashion to employ upwardly pieces of flake ribbon. You tin see how I made this fun bow in this before post.

DIY Loopy Wreath

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