How to Make Hat Pins: Cute DIY Vintage Accessories With Beads
If you love wearing hats, but need hat pins to keep them in place, then this tutorial is for you! Learn how to make hat pins with beads and then your hat pins become part of the hat, not just a tool!
You can customize a hat pin for every hat in your collection! Let's get started making these charming vintage accessories.
Tools and materials:
- Plain hat pins
- Assorted beads
- Bead cap
- E600 glue
- Toothpick
1. Cap off the end of the hat pin
Thread a bead cap onto the top end of your hat pin so that subsequent beads you thread on won’t fall off the end if the hole in them is larger than the end of the hat pin.
2. Select decorative beads
Thread your choice of two or three beads (depending on the size) onto the hat pin to get the pattern you want. Use the largest bead as your first one.
3. Secure the beads
Slip the beads off the hat pin.
Beginning with the cap you placed on the top end of the pin, use a toothpick to add some glue to the underside of the bead cap and then gently slide the first bead on so it’s secured to the cap.
Be careful not to use too much glue, because you don’t want it oozing out between the beads.
Now place some glue at the bottom of the first bead and thread the next bead on. Continue until all the beads are secured together.
Tip: The glue is especially important if any of your beads have large holes. You may find that some beads just won’t sit securely on others, so swap beads around as necessary.
4. Hang to dry
Stick the pointed end of the hat pin through the open flap of a cardboard box so the beads are hanging below the cardboard flap.
Stick the cap on the end of the hat pin and leave your beaded hat pins hanging to dry for three days.
How to make hat pins tutorial
These DIY beaded hat pins are so quick, simple, and inexpensive you can make a ton of them. Make them for yourself and your friends! You could probably even think up some themed hat pins for special occasions.
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I've used a similar process to convert old chop sticks into hair, scarf and shawl picks.
I love this and have been needing hatpins!!! Where do you find the base hatpins to buy?