Making a Japanese Thread Hair Pin

Make your own Japanese thread hair pin, or Tsumami-kanzashi, with brightly colored fabrics and thread. Tsumami-kanzashi is a traditional art form that was created during the Edo Period in Japan. Japanese thread hairpins consist of bobby pins decorated with intricate multi-petaled flowers, traditionally made with silk. Make your own beautiful Japanese hair pins with fabric flowers and wear them to have an eye striking addition to your wardrobe.

Instructions

Apply an even layer of spray starch to your fabric and iron it flat. Cut out 14 squares that are 3 1/2 inches from the fabric with fabric shears.

Fold the squares in half, bringing the bottom right corner up to the top left corner to form a triangle with the fabric. Press the fabric triangles flat with a hot iron.

Place the first triangle down on your workspace with the long edge of the triangle facing you. Fold the left corner over to the right corner and crease the fabric with your fingers. Fold the triangle in half once more to make a small triangle.

Hold the folded fabric triangle with your left hand, positioned with the folded edge facing down. The triangle will have two flaps of fabric along its open edge. Fold the fabric flap facing you down so that the tip of the corner is resting below the folded edge. Turn the fabric around and do the same with the other side so that the fabric resembles a paper airplane to finish folding the first flower petal. Insert a straight pin through the center of the petal to hold the fabric in the folded shape.

Fold the other fabric squares into petals and pin them as before. Cut off the raw edged corners--the unfolded edge corners--of the bottom of the petals with fabric shears.

Cut a 30-inch piece of thread and place it on a needle. Insert the needle through the first fabric petal, beneath the pin at its center and pull it through. Leave a 2-inch tail hanging at the end of the thread. Pass the needle and thread through the rest of the fabric petals in the same manner. Hold onto the 2-inch tail hanging down from the first petal to ensure that you don't pull it out of the first petal with one hand as you string the petals together with the thread. Keep the fabric petals close to each other on the thread.

Remove the needle from the thread and bring it down to the tail of the thread to make the petals form a circle. Cross the threads and start to make a simple overhand knot with the ends. Pass the thread ends through the loop of the knot twice to wrap them around the looped thread and then pull them taut to make a surgeon's knot. Trim the excess thread.

Insert your finger into the center of each of the petals and push it out to give the petals their final rounded shape.

Cut one 1/2-inch circle out of cardboard. Apply a small dab of craft glue to the lopped end of the hairpin on the ribbed side of the pin. Glue a small square of foam board to the center of the cardboard circles.

Apply an even layer of craft glue to the bottom of the sewed flower petals. Press the flower petals onto the cardboard square with the foam square in the center and the central points of the petals sitting on the edge of the foam square.

Sew a small button to the foam square at the center of the fabric flower petals with needle and thread. Secure the knot of the thread with a small dab of craft glue.

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