Diy: How To Crochet Hair Jewelry For Box Braids

Hi Portia here with stitch story, and today I want to share with you guys how I made my braided crochet, hair jewelry. So if you were able to see my previous video, I shared with you all my inspiration for this piece, and today I am wearing a couple of the pieces that I made and so a couple of notes. The embroidery thread that I use so the purple one was super duper easy to work with the gold. One was a little bit harder because the threads are coated in a metallic finish, so they kind of unraveled. They didn't stay tied, they're, not gon, na stay tied when I tied it. So I did end up finishing it with a little bit of crazy glue at the tip there and at the end here just to ensure that it was secure, but on the regular purple thread. I didn't have to do that. So at this point, let's just jump right in to complete this project. We will need a pair of scissors to clip our ends. I used a size C 22.75 millimeter crochet hook a braid cuff. This will clip it to our hair. Here I have 23 beads in various sizes, depending upon the thickness of your thread or yarn. You may need more or less bees or if you decide to go with something more consistent, that choice is completely up to you. So far, with the way I've been doing it, my pieces have come out to be approximately between 17 and 19 inches, because I like to mix up my beads you'll, also need a needle make sure. I learned the hard way make sure that the needle fits through all of your beads, because I'm using different sizes, if you just test one it doesn't, it might not work for all one thing I did find out too is sometimes the the holes and the beads Aren'T the same size even if they are the same size bead. So I had to keep putting my needle through until I found out, which means work versus not. But I just got a handful of beads and I checked all of these and they work and then some embroidery floss. This is like a metallic one, because I love the bling. So I went with this. So let's go ahead and get started we'll start by threading. Our beads on to our embroidery floss first always like, because I like to use various sizes to put the bigger bead on first. I use this as say the anchor and then from here. I just randomly pick up a bead and thread it on with no particular rhyme or reason other than my very first bee, which actually becomes the last bead that you crochet. So at this point, we'll go ahead and get all the beads on one. Okay and last bead, okay from here, we remove needle go down with Jack and we begin to crochet. Now this pattern is super easy. It only involves the slip stitch. So what we're going to do is make our slip knot, okay, and we are going to loosely chain five, so I'm gon na go one. Okay, we have five there. Then we bring up a bead and now we kind of push that tight to the back of the hook, and then we do another chain. Well, if I can get it to stay, we're supposed to stay: okay, okay, there we go okay, and so that's it, and now we're going to set crown again now one two three four and five: then we pull a bead up and another chain, that's it, and So we continue on in this fashion. Until all of our beads have been pulled up, then we chain around that bead. We pull it through now, we'll say the metallic red is a little bit messy harder, not harder, but it's stiffer a little bit stiffer, but once we add our cuff it, the cuff will be added at this in and then we have our anchor bead here. It will hang exactly the way we want it to and we continue on in this matter, like I said until all beads have been pulled down into our actual work, so I will see you back when that is completed. Okay, almost done here, let's go ahead and pull up the very last bead, and now with this one, we have incorporated it into our work and I'm only going to going to chain two at the end of this one, one two, because I'm going to end up Cutting a length here and I'm going to tie it off and thread it back through, so I don't need it to be the long end piece without nothing attached. So let's go ahead and cut that now we're gon na pull that loop through and now what did? I do okay, my new, let's get it ready. Okay, we have that all threaded through and now what we're going to do to finish this off is thread this through our anchor our big bead pull it through and let's see, I wanted to fall this way and I'm going to make a knot here. My tango price is so low, supposing all right and then we'll do it one more time for good measure, and then I want to go ahead and cut it off. Okay, we're good slip that there and snip this finish me cut it clean it up. Okay, now, what we're going to do next is get our cuff added. So this is the top and all we're going to do. What I like to do is kind of find the center here and we are going to read our embroidery floss through the center here and then we'll tie that off. So, let's thread again all right, we're all threaded through so now we're going to take our cuff and I opened it up a little bit and gon na eyeball. It like this is the center we're going to thread that through and so from here. All we do is not at all so that's one night, then I'm gon na not a few more times for a good measure. I don't want it. I'M gon na lose from its base all right, making it nice and tight. So at this point before I tie it off, I just want to make sure that it looks the way I wanted to so we have our cuff here. We have all of our beautiful beads got our anchor down here and yes, we are safe to tie off. Alright guys, so that is all that I have for you today. 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