Crafting Beaded Hair Wraps

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     My granddaughter Jayda does it again when it comes to awesome DIY trendy ideas!  She told me about these pretty hair wraps and I had to give them a try!  They are an inexpensive, pretty  accessory and I will be making them for all of my granddaughters!  Jayda and I had so much fun picking out the colors and the beads to create these!  I love our adventures at the craft stores!   Click to read more and find out how you can make these beautiful hair accessories, too!  You may already have all that you need on hand! 

     We had most of what we needed already, but it was fun to go to Hobby Lobby and pick out some new beads to make these wraps special.  We chose some marble looking stars.  If you can't find them at your store, Amazon has lots of choices! 
       Here is your list of supplies:

• Beads  (you can use as many as you would like)
• embroidery floss  (We used 4 colors, 3 would also work)
• a clip board  (for holding the floss while wrapping)
• scissors  (sharp enough to cut floss)

     SEE!  You probably already have all of that stuff in your craft room! 
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How to Start:

1. Choose your floss colors and cut a yard length of each.  (less if your hair is shorter)
2. Decide what beads you would like to use.  Be sure that the hole through the beads is large enough to accommodate  one of the strands of floss going through it. 
   
3. Have your clipboard at the ready! 
   
4. Hold all of your floss together evenly at one end and tie a slip knot in that end. 

This is a slip knot. If you pull on either end, the loop will decrease in size. If you pull it too far, the knot will come untied. For our purposes, make the loop slightly large.

Next, Clip the knot underneath the clipboard clamp.  Notice how we use the rubberized part of the clamp for a better hold.
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The Wrapping Process

1. Decide which color of floss you want to start wrapping first.  Hold the other 3 colors altogether to be warped tautly. 
2. Begin wrapping the first color around the group of floss fairly tightly.  When you have a few wraps done, use your finger and thumb to push the wraps up tightly against each other. 

In this picture you can see that some of the wrapped floss has already been pushed up tightly. Then, there are some looser wraps that need to be pushed up against the other ones.

See how I am holding the middle threads tightly? Then I use my finger and thumb to push the wraps up.

Rules?  There are None! 

• You may use 3 or 4 colors, whatever you would like! 
• You don't have to wrap each color for a certain distance, you can change colors whenever you would like.  
• You can place the beads wherever you would like.

How to Change Color

     When you want to change to a new color, all you have to do is put the end of your floss that you are wrapping with through your last wrap and pull it up to the other wrapped threads.  This creates a knot to hold that color in place.  Then, choose which color you would like to start wrapping next.  Take the first color that you wrapped with and hold it with the other center colors and simply start wrapping as you were doing.  

​Adding Beads

     You will see that I decided to  add beads after wrapping 3 colors of about the same length.  This is how I added the beads.

• End your color as usual by creating the knot by slipping the end of the floss through its last wrap.
• Choose the next color that you are going to wrap and put it through the bead.  I found that sometimes it was easier to use an embroidery needle to pass the floss through, or you could use a piece of tape on the end of the floss.  
• Next gather up the rest of the floss in a taut bundle and start wrapping with your new color.  
• I found that it didn't really matter which floss you put through the bead, it will still work out fine.  I made a knot under each bead to help hold it in place as I wrapped.  I used the same type of knot that I used to end a color.   In the end, you will have one strand of floss going through the bead and the rest following behind the bead.  

You can see how the wrapped floss is tight together from pushing it upward. Also, the beads come down the string in a tumbling affect.

When you start wrapping after putting on the beads, the wrap may want to twist on you.  It helps to do a bunch more loose wraps and then push them upward, holding that bead still.  As my hair wrap got longer, I would clamp the bead up under the clipboard to hold it still! 
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Finishing the Hair Wrap

     When your hair wrap is as long as you want or need it to be, simply take all of the floss together and tie a knot at the end.  Then, trim the bottom of the wrap to leave an even tassel.  Voila!  You are finished! 

Jayda only wanted a knot without a tassel. I left a tassel on Little Amelia's wrap.

How to Wear Your Hair Wrap

     With the slip knot at the top, you can make a small braid in your hair and then tighten the slip knot over the top of the braid and let the wrap hang down with the braid, like we did with Amelia's long beautiful hair. 

     We didn't really mind the extra tassel at the top, but you could twist it into the braid somehow.  Or, the wrap will stay in much better if you put a small elastic at the top of the braid and the hair wrap over that.  Then, it will be easier to tuck in the extra floss behind the braid.  
     (Don't I have beautiful granddaughters?)

     Jayda has shorter hair than Amelia, so she made her wrap shorter.  Then, she also tucked some of her hair back and put it in under some of her hair for more of a peek-a-boo effect.  She used an elastic and her hair wrap stayed in all day! 

     I think that these wraps would be beautiful intertwined in a updo of a bun on a little girl.  They are just so much fun and now I want to make lots of colors.  
     The colors Jayda chose remind me of the colors she chose for the eye color bracelets that she let me in on a while back! I can't wait to see what new ideas she has for me the next time I see her! 

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