Beaded Wire Wrapped Headband Tutorial By Kimberlie Burkhart Kohler Emerging Creatively Tutorials www.KimberlieKohler.com Materials and Tools: Blank Headband (get from a craft store. I picked mine up at Hobby Lobby) Wire – small enough to go through the hole in the beads (I used 22 gauge) – you don’t need to use sterling silver wire. A strand of beads Wire cutters Needle nose or wire nose pliers Instructions Step #1 Your beads will probably come in a strand, cut it apart. HINT: When you cut apart the beads, cut them over a tray or mat so they don’t go rolling off your table in every direction. Step #2 Line up the beads around the headband. See how far around they go and decide where they will start and stop. Step #3 Cut off a long piece of wire. Step #4 Start wrapping the end of the wire around the blank headband where you determined the beads would start. You want to make sure that the wire is going to stay put and not slide around. Wrap a few times around. Then catch the end in the wraps so it is secure. (See photos below.) Step #5 Slide a bead on the wire. Step #6 Wrap around the wire a couple of times. Then add another bead. Step #7 Continue until you go all the way around and have used all of your beads. Step #8 To make the end extra secure, after wrapping a couple of times at the end of the bead series, wrap back in front of the bead again. Step #9 Wrap back around the bottom of the bead again. Step #10 Use pliers to tuck in the end. Step #11 Completed headband! © 2012 Kimberlie Burkhart Kohler and Emerging Creatively Tutorials Terms of Use: Please feel free to use this tutorial to make projects for yourself or to sell. You can teach this tutorial in a workshop; however, if you know another teacher who would like to teach this, please have them get the tutorial directly from me. You DO NOT have permission to sell or distribute this tutorial. Any questions, please feel free to contact me directly. xoxo, Kim Email: [email protected] P.S. Do you want even more wire wrapping tutorials and want to delve deeper into making wire wrapped jewelry? You don’t want to miss my Wire Wrapping for Beginners eBook, which will be released soon! Make sure to check out www.WireWrappingForBeginners.com to find out when it’s available. .