Hello everyone its Hannah, and today I'm going to show you how to attach ends
onto your ribbon so you can use it to make necklaces and bracelets. For this
tutorial you're going to need some ribbon, some ribbon ends - this is the
small size they fit perfectly for this ribbon, but you can use larger ones if
you have either thicker ribbon or you want to use a couple of strands of
ribbon. You may also need fold-over ends instead if you prefer. You need some jump
rings and some clasps as well. You need a pair of chain nose pliers
these are completely flat inside and then also some fabric glue. So to start
with I'm going to show you how to use the ribbon ends there are teeth on one
side and it's straight on the other personally I like to have the straight
side facing upwards it's just a bit tidier so start with I'm going to take
my fabric glue and I'm just going to put a small amount of glue on the inside of
my ribbon end you don't want too much glue in there because you don't want to
start splurting out all over the place and making a big old mess and then
I'm going to just pop my ribbon in now this ribbon is slightly shorter than the
size of my wrist and then I'm going to just gently push together the two sides
of the ribbon end it can be a little bit tough but they will go eventually and
then grab your chain nose pliers and give it a squeeze and that's one end
attached and then you just repeat with the other end. The glue isn't essential
with these ends, it just adds a little bit of extra security
and so that's your two ends attached and then you're ready to add your
clasp. For more detailed instruction on how to attach clasps please check out our
How to Open Jump Rings tutorial, it explains it all in there. So to
attach the slightly smaller fold over ends is slightly more complicated but
it's worth it in the end, and it will give you a look like this. So to do this the
easiest way I find is just to roll the end of your ribbon
and then once the end of your ribbon is nice and narrow
you can grab your fold-over end this just takes a bit of balancing but you
just hold your ribbon in there and then take your pliers and squash each side of
the cord or squash each side of the fold-over and flat
as before it's not essential, but you can add some glue in if you think it will
make it a little bit more secure that's not a problem. Give it a good tight
squeeze and so that's all contained in there and then we just repeat with the
other end
Then you're ready to attach your clasp just like before and then
your bracelets are ready to embellish in any way that you choose. Here are just
some designs that I've created with this one I stuck on some lovely diamantes, I
sewed on some beads with this one and with this one I simply added a charm
thank you very much for watching this video if you enjoyed it please feel free
to let us know the link to our website will be in the description box below and
please feel free to share a picture of your makes with us! We are on various
social media platforms and the link to all of those will be in the description
box below thank you once again for watching, bye!