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
• super glue
   

Instructions:

1. Cut a 1' long piece of Kreinik cord, thread your needle and tie a knot at one end.
    
2. Cut a small piece of fabric, roughly 3½"x 1½".
    
3. Center the alligator clip on the fabric, draw an outline on the cloth and fold edges along outline.
    
4. 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.
    
5. 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.
    
6. Repeat until desired effect is achieved or until entire fabric is covered with beads.
    
7. Glue fabric to the alligator clip using super glue.