Are you making the Grids & Grommets bag?
I just made about 10 of them. I had to put Decor Bond on both interiors of the purse band. This helped stabilize it for the grommets. There was another lady in our guild that was working on these purses as well. She even put a little hot glue (or was it super glue?) in between the grommet sides to keep them stuck together.