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    Posted: February 12 2005 at 11:57am
Can I sew on clips to a hand-tied weft?
I can't seem to find the kind of hair I want on machine weft.
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Hmmm I dont know too much about making clip in's but I think Metalgirl wears them daily and makes her own so she may be able to help you out with your question.
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I have made many a clip in with hand tied wefts.

First of all, I decide how many of the hand tied wefts I want to use to make each track. I usually take 3 and sometimes 4 of them (I like to wear a lot of hair) and zig zag stitich them together on the sewing machine.

I also decide how wide I need the track, and as you know, those hand tieds usually come in 10" wide pieces. So, to make my top tracks which are 12" wide, before I zig zag stitch them I stagger the hand tied pieces to achieve the length that I want. Hope this makes sense.

That does cause a little more bulkiness, but not bad. Because of the zig zag stitching, there is something more sizable to sew the clips into.

I like hand tied because I it doesn't shed. However, my current clips in are machine wefted, and I zig zag stitich over each one 3 times, so it hardly sheds at all after that.
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