Easy and Exquisite Garland HD

www.bowdabra.com www.bowdabrablog.com https://www.pinterest.com/bowdabra/ https://www.facebook.com/Bowdabra Materials Bowdabra Scissors Garland (24" long) 3 Pieces Bowdabra Bow Wire (22" long) 2 Ribbon of One Color (36" long, 1.5" wide) 1 Piece Ribbon of Same Color (54" long, 1.5" wide) 2 Pieces Ribbon of a Matching Color (36" long, 1.5" wide) 1 Piece Ribbon of the Same Color (54" long, 1.5" wide) 1 Piece Ribbon Similar Color to Others (4 yards long, 2.5" wide) "I picked this wreath up for 50¢ at a thrift store, and the wreath was perfect but it definitely needed some updating. So I took it apart and now we’re going to start by making a beautiful bow for the center. Obviously I have my Bowdabra and I’m going to show you how to make this bow. I fold my Bowdabra bow wire in half. I have about 22 inches, and I’m going to lay that down into my Bowdabra, tuck the ends under so they stay out of my way. Now, for this bow I have this beautiful 2 ½-inch wired ribbon, and I have four yards. So this is going to be a pretty big bow. So first, I put it in. Now this is the wrong side of my ribbon, so I’m going to loop it back and I’m going to twist it and put it right back down into the Bowdabra and I’m going to fold it, fold it back, twist it, and put it right down into my Bowdabra. And I’m just going to keep going back and forth, fold/twist, and fold it, twist it. Let’s just kind of unroll this a little bit. And actually, I picked this ribbon up this week at Sam’s Club, so I was absolutely blown away by how beautiful it was and relatively inexpensive. So I’m just going to fold this back, fold over, twist and again fold it. Make sure that the inside – so this is really how to make a bow the very, very easy way, and I’m just going to fold my last loop in there, take my Bowdabra wand, scrunch it down, take the wand out. Then I have these two ribbons that I match, I think, with my ribbon, and I cut about 2 yards maybe. I think I measured it at about 54 inches. And all I’m going to do is keep the two together, twist them and then fold it back, and twist it. And then probably making these about an inch and a half, but anybody who’s watched any of my other videos knows that I always say it’s a hand-tied bow so it shouldn’t be perfect. So I’m just going to keep going and folding back and forth. And I love how the Bowdabra holds everything together, because it’s so difficult when you have two different ribbons to make them match up when you’re trying to do this by hand. I would never even like attempt – I don’t think – forget attempt it. I could not do this by hand. Which is why I love my Bowdabra because it helps me to make absolutely gorgeous bows that I could never, ever make by hand. And you make them pretty quickly. This one takes a little bit longer because it is – there’s a lot of ribbon in this bow, and it’s a pretty big bow. I’m going to put this on my outside bow garland, but you can also use a bow like this as a tree topper because it makes an absolutel