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Right now, as you'll see, we've got our larger dots, our base dots that are a color, coral
and lime green, and our white dot's on top of those. Those are starting to melt in. What
we're going to do is melt those, the rest of the way into the surface. Again, you want
to keep your bead just below the flame and have the flame just touch the tips of the
dots. And again, you want to rotate slowly and evenly. So you let the heat sink into
the bead. Now the center of my bead right now is getting a little too orange, so I'm
going to pull it out of the flame for just a second, let it cool off, and then put it
back in the flame.
Continue to melt that as slowly as you can, as evenly as you can. Your goal is to try
to get evenly spaced dots that are the same size so that your lines will be symmetrical.
And as you can see, as it starts to melt in, the bead is starting to come around again.
It's still a disc shape. We haven't taken that, taken, let the gravity take the shape
away and turn it round. We still have a disc. And go ahead and continue melting this in
until your base bead is back to that original disc form that you started with. So I'm going
to go ahead and do that. We're almost there. And then we'll go ahead and encase and then
you'll see how the stripes appear.