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- One of my favorite things
to do with my fiber art

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is to make it wearable.

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And that means I'll often be turning

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my little crocheted pieces
into hair clips or pins.

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My favorite glue for that
is, once again, hot glue.

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It's a fast grab, it's a good grab,

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and I have very awkwardly
shaped pieces for the most part,

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so I can't be clamping things,

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and hot glue is really
my number one favorite

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for metal to fiber.

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This is a super cute hamburger bear

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that I actually made into a tree topper.

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So it has these hair clips in the back

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to clip onto a Christmas tree.

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And this is just hot glue.

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I made this years ago,

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I use it every year on my tabletop tree,

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and it's still hangin' on.

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I created some swatches so
that we can do a fun pick test

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and you can see the
performance of different glues

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with metal and fiber.

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This is OK to Wash-It.

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Very peely, it was really
easy to peel that right off.

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Here's Fabri-Tac in the center.

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Oop!

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That came off much more
quickly than I thought.

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You're not getting a lot
of glue stuck to the metal.

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Here's our Ultimate White glue,

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which is actually pretty good,

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but the reason why it's not my favorite

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is the dry time is a little bit longer,

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so for awkwardly shaped pieces,

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I just can't be sitting there

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holding it with my hands forever.

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But if you have a flat piece

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like this pin and hair clip backing,

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you can certainly use the Ultimate,

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or your white Tacky Glue,

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and that should hold on quite well.

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Here is Super Glue.

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And I cheated.

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This was actually glued twice.

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The first time I got no grab,

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there were a lot of empty spaces,

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and then I went over it again
with a second helping of glue,

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and it's actually pretty good,

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but I just don't feel like Super Glue

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is a super reliable metal glue.

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Here is my favorite, hot glue.

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You can see you can get really
good coverage in the back.

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With the super glue, it's kind of spotty,

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but the hot glue just smooths right out.

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And is a pretty seamless adhesion.

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And here's the Gutermann glue,

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which I also really like.

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It's a good alternative, but again,

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it feels special, it's
a little more expensive.

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So I'd always defer to hot glue for metal.

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We're gonna add a pin back to
this little crocheted pretzel.

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This is acrylic yarn.

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And a good tip for when
you're using pins like this

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is to open and close it first,

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because I have glued pins on

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only to find out that
they didn't work later,

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and I completely ruined my crochet piece.

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So make sure that opens and closes.

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They do have holes in the back,

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they're meant to be sewn,

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but I feel like even with sewing,

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there's a little bit of
wiggle, so I do prefer glue,

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and it's an excellent grab with hot glue.

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Squirt a little bit of
your hot glue out first,

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it looks like I can also stick
a new glue stick in here.

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I like to squirt out a little

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in case there are any sudden explosions

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and I don't want it to
explode onto my fiber art.

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So go carefully,

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and just put a line of glue on
the back of your metal piece.

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You have to move pretty quickly

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because this will cool
off and harden soon.

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And press down, wanna make
good contact, and don't let go.

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I'll show you what happens if
you let go right after this,

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but I'm gonna keep holding
onto my pretzel pin.

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You can let go and move on

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if you have to glue more
pins onto more pretzels,

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but I would come back to
this guy in like a minute

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and just keeps smushing 'em down,

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and make sure there's good contact

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until it's completely cool.

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For a curved hair clip like this,

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you definitely need to make
sure you hold this down

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until it's cool,

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because otherwise you'll see
the curvature of the metal

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will start pulling away
from your crochet piece,

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and it'll harden,

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and you'll get these
really ugly glue strings

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coming up from the back of your work.

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With an awkwardly shaped piece like this,

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you can't use any sort of clamps,

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so that's why you have to use your hands

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to make sure the glue stays on.

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Just to show you, this
is the Gutermann glue.

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It also has really great grab.

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I did have to hold onto this

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maybe for a good three to four minutes

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before I was confident
enough to let go of it,

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so there's a little more
hold time with the hot glue,

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but if you have a tube of
Gutermann, it works just as well.

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I thought it would be fun to talk through

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some of my finished projects

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so that you can see how
many different types of glue

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can go into one piece of fiber art.

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For this ice cream cone scarf,

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I used Aleene's OK To Wash-It

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for the little pompom sprinkles,

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and I used Fabri-Tac for
the bigger cherry pompoms.

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For this pizza broach,

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instead of sewing the pepperoni on,

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I actually used hot glue.

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And here on the back,

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the felt is attached with Fabri-Tac,

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and the pin back is attached
with hot glue as well.

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For this cream puff tower,

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the raspberry doodad on top
is glued on with Gutermann,

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the frosting, or the icing, squiggles

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are attached with Fabri-Tac,

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and I actually glued this
whole cream puff tower

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to this metal plate with Fabri-Tac.

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A lot of people really like using E6000

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to glue metal pin backings and hair clips

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to their fiber art,

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however, I find that E6000
is messy, it's stinky,

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I never really get a great grab,

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it works best with clamping,

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and something like this can't be clamped,

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so that's why I really prefer Fabri-Tac

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and hot glue and other glues.

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Now you have all the
glues, tips, and tricks

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to embellish and where your fiber art

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in new and exciting ways.

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Don't forget to refer to your
chart that's in your PDF.

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I also encourage you to
experiment with all kinds of glue,

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and make your own chart.

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There are certain elements such
as temperature and humidity

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and the materials that you're using

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that can affect how your
different glues work.

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So go ahead, have a glue adventure,

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and I can't wait to see what you make.