Easter Beaded Hair Clip
Create a colorful beaded hair clip with ladybugs and flowers, perfect for Easter and throughout spring. The delicate glass beads are sewn to a piece of fabric before adorning the hair clip for an easier Easter beaded jewelry project from Rings & Things.
Find this project and more in our free eBook, How to Make Bows, Hair Pins and More: 33 DIY Hair Accessories.
Materials (Available from Rings & Things):
- 1 #30-123 1.9” rectangular alligator hair clip
- 30-35 #20-228-042 Size 11 Toho® Japanese glass seed beads, crystal
- 2 #23-618-211 9mm Czech glass ladybug beads, red
- 30-35 #23-505-000 5.5mm glass flower spacer beads, assorted colors
- 5ft #61-804-3214 Kreinik™ very fine #4 braid thread, blue zircon
- Fabric
- scissors
- Jewel Bond adhesive
- big-eye needle
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super glue
Instructions:
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Cut a 1' long piece of Kreinik cord, thread your needle and tie a knot at one end.
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Cut a small piece of fabric, roughly 3½"x 1½".
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Center the alligator clip on the fabric, draw an outline on the cloth and fold edges along outline.
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Using the big-eye needle, sew from the bottom side to the top side of the fabric, stitching the folded sides together. NOTE: Instead of sewing, you can glue the folded sides using an adhesive like Jewel Bond.
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Attach flower and ladybug beads to the fabric, one at a time, sewing from underside of fabric to top. When using center-drilled beads (like the flower beads), first thread the bead, then add a seed bead and go back through the larger bead until the seed bead rests at the center of the flower bead. The seed bead functions as a flower piston.
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Repeat until desired effect is achieved or until entire fabric is covered with beads.
- Glue fabric to the alligator clip using super glue.
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Weberme
Apr 04, 2017
Nothing like flowers and ladybugs to remind use of spring and this beaded hair clip does just that. This clip will look so pretty in a little girls hair and can be a compliment to any outfit. I love the ladybugs and may even just make clip with those and then one with just flowers. For an older girl I will use a larger clip. Very good tutorial for a super hair accessory.
Marilyn B
Jan 22, 2017
Excellent instructions and tip regarding using a seed bead as a center anchor, this does work and adds to the prettiness! I have used tiny buttons, and sometimes using a smaller button in the center of a larger one! Especially fun to select colors that go with several outfits, or use neutrals, like whites, silvers or golds to go,with anything! Great project!
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