Hi everyone. Here are the pictures I promised. Sorry they're a little blurry...they were taken from my cell phone. And again, my bows are really bad... It's amazing that I can suture skin very well without wasting the suture, but me with a needle and thread..not a good combination.
I'll try to do a step by step:
Picture 1: cut a piece of ribbon 8 inches in length. Fold in half. I put the hemostat and the bobbie pin on both sides so I know where to put in the stitches. You put the top stitch about 1.5 inches from the folded part down.
Picture 2: This one shows where I put the stitch on the bottom part of the bow. Again, my stitches are really bad.
So you stitch 1.5 inches from the fold part of the bow down and then I sort of guess where to put the second stitch. I fold the bow to see how it will look with the bottom stitch. I'm guessing you should go down 2 inches or so.
Picture 3: This one shows the bow with both loops already stitched in.