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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you how to do tubular netting.
I have a little example here that I've started. You can make this as long as you want
but I want to show you how the pattern develops
and this is three bead netting, there's also five bead. There's different variations but
I want to show you the three bead. It's a really pretty grid like pattern
This one has a stripe going on as well
so it's really actually quite easy to do. Take this off of my tube just so you can see
it's hollow
kind of squishy
could make a great ring or napkin ring, a rope for a necklace, a lot
of different applications
It's not very hard to do
so what you're going to need is a needle and some thread
the length of thread is going to be dependent upon how long of a tubular netting
piece, you can always add more thread as you go
and you need a tube of some sort. You can use a straw or a pen
you can use whatever you like
and the
diameter of the tube is going to determine
how big of course you tubular netting is going to be
so if you want to use a straw maybe something a little narrow
if will be a little narrower band of netting as well. You want to have some firmness to it. I
like this tube a lot actually because it
squishes a little bit but doesn't really change shape
so keep that in mind as well
and then you'll need some beads
I'm going to do it with two different colors here so you can see a little bit more
clearly what's going on
you can use the same color, different colors, different size beads, whatever
you'd like
so let's begin
I've got my thread
on my needle and I don't have a stopper bead and I don't have a knot tied at
the end
so what we're going to begin with. I'm going to pick up
an even number of beads which is divisible by four
and will fit nicely around this tube
It probably sounds confusing right now. I'm going to show you how to do it and makes
really a lot of sense once you see it done. So I'm going to pick up
just every other
color
green and blue and green and then blue
make sure you have an even number, so I started green so I gotta end with blue
so keep that even number
and then I'm going to slide them down
You notice that I haven't counted them yet. I'm not at that stage yet.
slide them down and leave a tail of about six to eight inches and what I
want to do is I want to make sure that it
comfortably fit around my tube, there's equal space between all of them, you can
see I definitely don't have enough yet, add some more
and there's no exact number, it's really going to be depend upon
how big your tube is
let's see if I'm closer yet
I'm getting closer, I'm not quite there
and since I know I'm close I wanna make sure that I have a number on here
now that's divisible by four so I'm going to count it
four, six...
...fourteen, sixteen,
eighteen
twenty, twenty two, twenty four, twenty six
so that is not divisible by four and I'm just almost there but I do have a
little bit more room
so add two more
and the divisible by four is really important if you're doing a three-bead
netting like we're doing here
let's see
that looks pretty darn good
so I'm going to go ahead
take my end
and loop it around in a simple overhand knot
loop that together
go ahead
make that nice knot
just so that all my
beads form a ring
now I'm gonna go ahead and slip that ring
onto the tube
and then I'm gonna hold
the tail
down with the thumb
and I'm ready to start my first row
to begin with I'm gonna go through
this blue bead right here just so I have an
end for it to come out of so, now it's coming out of a bead instead of coming out of
the knot
and now since that this is three-bead netting I'm going to add three
beads and you're going to mimic
the three beads I'm going to skip over
I've got green, blue
and green, so it's the same amount of beads
skip over those
and I'll go through this blue bead here
just like so
and from now on I'm going to refer to that as a link bead because it's linking
these two together
go all the way around my whole ring doing that same process
add three beads
same color sequence again, it's three beads, I'm going to skip over
go through this blue bead
which is
now a link bead
and this might wanna
go over on the other side, you just wanna push it up
so that they all stay on the top
because we're working our way up
keep going around, same process
you'll see I missed a bead
that happens when you're doing netting, sometimes you'll get
a little off track, make sure you're looking at what you're doing carefully and
paying attention
we're almost back where we started, so we're just going to go ahead
continue our pattern
go through that original bead we went through to begin with
and we made an entire loop and this would make a nice ring right now if we wanted to
finish it off but we don't want to. We're going to keep going
so now I'm going to introduce a new term to you, we've got
the bottom link bead
which is going to be on the base
and have the top link bead, so this would be a bottom, that would be a top, that would
be a bottom, that would be a top
so what we're going to do is we need to step up
so we're gonna go through
the green bead right here, so we're going in an upward direction
and also the blue bead
and that's our to link bead
and now you want to continue with the same pattern, so we want to mimic the
three beads we're going to skip over. It's going to be green, blue and a green
just the same as before
and then go after another top link bead
put on my needle a green, a blue
and a green
go through the top link bead
keep just going around and that same pattern
tubular netting is really just a matter of going around and around
following the same pattern and going through these link beads
you want to make sure the tension on the thread
is always pretty taut because you want to form an cylindrical shape
so you don't want it too loose
if the thread gets caught just work its way around
we're just building
add another three beads. It's the same ones as always, it's the green
the blue, the green
go through the top link bead
pull through
I'm going to do a little bit more so you can see it, you see how we're getting
almost like little stripes here
so it's getting a really nice pattern
if it comes your tube, don't worry
just keep working
just put it back on
but as you can see this actually makes a nice little ring
put it back on the tubes so you can see what's going on
we came back to our starting point again, so we're just gonna
do the same process where we're going to step up
and go through that top link, so the ones that were our top links are now our
bottom links
step up but go through the green bead
through the blue bead next to it and has a new top link
just a couple more. Hopefully you have this down on how it is. It's just
repetition
go around and around until you get your desired length
or you can make a mistake like I just did where I added
two beads
almost to the end again and I'll show you one quick thing
so we have a nice band. Hopefully you'll see the pattern how it's developing
now you can use it like this
where you don't taper it but I want to show you how you can taper it if you
want
maybe come down and have it end in a nice point
take it off of my tube
so if you want to taper it down what you're going to do is you're gonna do a
decrease
in your netting stitches
it's a little easier to do decreases when you have
a larger netting pattern, where you're going from maybe
a five bead, to a three bead, to a one bead. we're starting at a three bead so
we're just going to go through one bead
take one blue bead
forget about the greens
and just go through the next
blue bead
we'll see how that just pulled everything a little tighter
keep doing that all the way around
so we're decreasing
our netting stitch
so you can see we've just taper it a little bit
if your beads will allow you can try to fill in some more by going around again
or you can do a reinforcing row
where you go all the way around the beads you've already woven in
making a nice ring
and pull
the next couple, just a little bit extra
and then if you're happy with this you would just tie off the threads and incorporate it
into your bead work
the same as you would with any other bead weaving. Here's the end which
has been tapered down
and here was an end that we did not taper. A couple different ways of doing it
just depending upon your design
so that's how you get three bead tubular netting and also perform a decrease
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