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DIY Jewelry Tutorial: How to end a beaded hat band

August 07, 2024

Join me, Julianna Avelar, as I show how to finish the ends of a beaded hat band made on a bead loom by creating an adjustable hatband using leather & twine. I used a hat band pattern to create this beadwork tutorial. In addition to teaching you how to finish with leather ends, I also share some other closure ideas that I have used. Timestamps are added to this video to help you get to what you need to learn.

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I used the Large Wisdom Warrior Bead Loom, Jewel Loom Beading Needles, Wildfire beading thread and the exclusive beading pattern Papa Joe Hatband Kit.

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Timestamps

0:00 Intro
0:10 Materials Used
1:00 Cutting Pieces of Leather to fit
1:21 Adhesive I used
1:55 Adding glue to beads and leather
2:47 Laying beaded piece into glue on leather
2:50 You can use Faux Leather
2:53 Find Faux Leather at JoAnn Craft Store
3:06 Adding glue to Top part of leather and front of beaded piece
3:58 Folding top piece over to the Bottom
4:37 Adding Cloths Pins as Clamps
5:33 Opposite end finished
6:57 Showing other ideas on how to close your hatband ends
9:37 Reviewing the project, drying time, glue used and how I used twine
10:00 Overview
11:00 Like Subscribe and Share

Transcript:

okay so I'm super excited to share with

you how I finish the ends of my

Materials Used

hatbands and so this one was actually a

pattern called Papa Joe and I'm going to

be adding this to my fishing hat and I

used a large Loom specifically the large

wisdom Warrior and Loom that I designed

and the pattern as I mentioned is the

Papa Joe

pattern I'm going to be using a leather

this is a real leather It Is by Silver

Creek leather company and when I saw

this silver I thought oh my lands I

totally want to use this for my hatband

for my fish hatband cuz I just I loved

it and what I did was I cut out first I

cut out this piece and I thought oh well

Cutting Pieces of Leather to fit

that's that's perfect but then I

realized it really wasn't going to

secure the

sides of my hatband and so I really

needed something a little bit thicker so

I went ahead and I cut this piece right

here now when it comes to adhesives a

lot of people like to

Adhesive I used

use um gorilla glue or E6000 or

something that might be really strong I

totally am still and forever a fan of

the alen brand um of glues and this one

happens to be the fast grab tacky glue

and let me tell you it works really

really well it adheres uh very quickly

and it dries clear which is definitely

what we want for our hatbands so what

I'm going to do is I'm going to take the

Adding glue to beads and leather

toothpick and I've already got some glue

on my

paper plate

here my my sustainable paper plate I

always try to always try when I can to

find things that are

clean all right and so I'm just putting

like a layer down here and then I'm

going to turn the hatband towards me and

I'm just putting like a layer of glue on

those first few rows like

three three good rows

and I'm just kind of oops make sure

we're in the screen here get excited I

want to see up and close and then I've

got to make sure you do too so we'll go

ahead and we're going to lay that down

and I'm just going to center it onto

that piece of leather and by the way if

Laying beaded piece into glue on leather

you don't want to use leather you can

You can use Faux Leather

totally use like a faux leather I bought

a ton of it once at um at

Find Faux Leather at JoAnn Craft Store

Joann's and so you know like I totally

get it if you don't want to use leather

and and you could do that all right so

then what I'm going to do is I'm going

Adding glue to Top part of leather and front of beaded piece

to come in here with some more glue and

I'm just once

again getting those first rows like

three to four

rows okay and just a

nice coating and then we're going to

come over here to the opposite

end and you want you want a lot but then

you also don't want it to like squish

out

everywhere okay so I'm just going to

give like a little bit more

here I'm telling you the stuff is really

awesome it it really does adhere quite

quickly all right and so I've got my two

um my two pens here my two clamps some

people will like totally use real clamps

and that's fine as well and so then I'm

just going to sandwich

Folding top piece over to the Bottom

this and it's it's really incredible I

can already feel it like really securing

itself and I just very carefully I'll

take my pointer

finger okay and I'm just I'm making sure

that it stays aligned and I'm going to

pull in a clean toothpick

here because I can see that I've got

some you know seepage and I just want to

clean that up even though it's going to

dry clear I don't want to have like a

mess so so I just like get that really

nice and secure and then I'm going to

peek at the back just to make sure

everything's good and it is and then I'm

going to bring these um cloes pins in

Adding Cloths Pins as Clamps

whoops I just want to make sure I keep

everything nice and even make sure that

nothing is

slipping and then basically like a bit

you know most people would recommend

keeping that close together for like 24

hours and I'm not opposed to that but

really with the fast

um with the um fast grab it really works

rather quickly and so you know glue glue

can be fickle because depending on what

part of the country you're in if it's

like really humid or what have you like

you might have to um give it a little

more time or if it's super hot it could

like really adhere very quickly but

there it does seem to be like a little

bit of forgiveness of time and so you

could see how like nice and clean all of

that is and so I want to show you the

other end because I went ahead and did

Opposite end finished

that um beforehand so that you can see

so we'll scooch that out of the camera

and we'll bring the bottom in here and

so you can see this is all nice and and

smooshed and it just it gives kind of

like this really cool almost like bougie

I don't know um you know like you have

these different textures going on you

have the twine you have this really

sparkly silver leather and then you have

these fit

F it's like its own its own little movie

happening but there are some um really

neat beads metallic like beads in here

that also have that shine and so that's

why I thought it would look really cool

so when this is all done this other side

we would take the twine and then we

would feed that through um but I will

step up I will I will go back one step

and just tell you that I I did end up

trimming so you can see that I did end

up trimming a little bit off of each

side like you know maybe like a

fingernail um just so that it wasn't so

overlapping but I do like the

overlapping in the beginning because it

gives the clamp something to hold on

to so that's pretty much it in a

nutshell it um you know let me bring in

let me bring in my this hatband right

Showing other ideas on how to close your hatband ends

here to give you an an even better

visual

so this uh the leather cord in this case

is what I used and then I've got like a

barrel bead to keep it all nice and

secured this is leather this is real

leather you know you can get leather

from uh Tandy Tandy Corporation has um

actual retail shops throughout the

country you just have to go to uh Tandy

Leather and look up to see you know if

you have a um a ret Outlet in your area

I'm lucky I have one and it's kind of

cool it's always been in my town like

forever in a day but here's like the

traditional way I would say that you

would normally see uh perhaps a hatband

being closed so your two leather pieces

your leather cting this could be suede

as well and then your Barrel bead to

like keep it into place but I also cuz I

love to do things different um let's see

with this one one with this one I

literally did a row a fire polish I just

did a bunch of fire polish and some seed

beads and then I closed it off with a

cute little um fish button so what I

would do is I could do both of these on

one hat at the same time in fact I'll

have to do that because that looks

really cool now I've got like my f my

fish are do fish

mate wait here we go all right let me

get that out of the way here's another

one which just a beautiful um row of I

believe these are 4 mm fire polish and

then again I just did um a button I

added a cute little charm so that's a

different way that you could close and

then this is really cool so I love using

the slide connectors these are slide

connectors and then I use some gorgeous

check chain isn't that

beautiful so there are different ways

that you could end your hatband I think

it just really depends on on the look

that you're going for um again if you

want something probably traditional

you're going to go with the leather like

I just showed you and um glue of choice

really but I do think that the elen fast

grab is just fine that's what I used on

these and I have been oh gosh this is

probably a year old and I've had it on

one of my hats for quite some time if

you do choose to go with a more heavy

you know glue just please make sure that

um that you are in a well ventilated

area with the tacky glue it it doesn't

Reviewing the project, drying time, glue used and how I used twine

smell so I'm not I don't have any of

those issues I hope this showed you how

easy it is to end your hat band I mean

it really is um and look at this one I

just actually I just did this one um I'm

going to say oh heck maybe 2 hours ago

and look at how nice and secure the glue

Overview

is so this glue is pretty much the bomb

I'm loving it and this is just twine by

the way I just kind of wanted to keep

the fish theme going and um and so when

this is all all done let's see let's

turn this

over this will just go down into

here and then I will just get one of the

barrel beads and slide it on and that's

how I will keep my closure I'll

definitely take a picture so that you

can see that and I'll put it in a post

um but I'm super excited I love love

love love this I hope it helped you hope

it inspired you and making hatbands is

like probably one of the most empowering

projects that I do like it just makes me

really feel great so I hope you enjoyed

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