Adding Bows to Flower Arrangements

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Susan Paxton for ExpertVillage. We're continuing with our bow. To start with, we just take our ribbon and we twist it once and then make a loop on the back and then I turn it over and twist it again. Now if you're using a one-sided ribbon you have to twist sometimes twice to get it so that the right side is alsways out. but this is two-sided ribbon so we just keep turning it around and twisting it and making a loop and then twist it again and make another loop. And twist it and make another loop. I like to do about six loops, sometimes eight, depending on how much ribbon I have and I just keep twisting and looping until I get to where all I have left is a tail. Enough for a tail on that. This material actually slips a little bit so I have a little bit of trouble holding on to it, but in the final outcome it still comes out really good. Then I take a heavy-gauge wire and thread it through my fingers and then just twist it tightly around the material and there you have a bow. You can pull the tails down so that they stay in place. Let's pull that down the back. That will look a little better. Sometimes they get a little misshapen so you have to pull on them and get a nice full bow out of it. That would even look good with our pink as a contrast."