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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com
and today I'm going to show you how to do circular
beaded crochet for left-handed crocheters
so what you're getting
need is to have your string
and you're gonna have your beads what I'm using here
is just Super-Lon nylon
string and I have size 6 seed beads on here
the circular crochet
with beads kinda looks like a beaded Kumihimo. It's just solid beads
so your cord will only show a little tiny bit through
and it'll be mostly beads
I am using four colors of beads
and it's going to really help you if you can
use four colors when you're learning how to do this
to keep your place basically so that you know the next place need to go in
is the next color
for this size
bead and string. I have a
size 6 crochet hook
so first you need to string your beads
and string them in order. Mine
I have strung red, dark blue, yellow,
turquoise, red, dark blue, yellow, turquoise. If you happen to have those colors
of beads will be
even easier to follow me, if you don't then just substitute out
the colors that you have and keep those in mind when you watch
how I did this. So just for the purposes of showing you I just strung
that many. It's really going to depend on how long
your piece is going to be. How many beads you'll need, you might want to just do a
little swatch
and say like okay for an inch I need this many beads
count them up to know exactly how many you'll need
if you're not following pattern that gives you the number
so you also need to know how to do
chain stitch crochet and specifically beaded chain stitch
we do have a video on how to do that for lefties also, so if you don't know how to do
that
go ahead and watch that first and practice on that. So once you have your
string and you have
your beads on the string ahead and make a slip knot
I am making a loop and
pulling on the end but don't pull
all the way through and pull it tight and you want to leave yourself a nice
tail of about six inches there. Go ahead and pull that tight
this is just like chain stitch so far and the first thing we're gonna do
is chain stitch so the first step to do
we're doing a four bead circular crochet
so you can do different ones, I'm doing one that has four around
the first thing you gonna do is do four
beaded chain stitches in a row. You're not gonna skip any between, you're just using for
beads
in a row, so go ahead
grab a bead every time
for the first four stitches
okay so you have your first four chain stitches
with a bead in each one like that and the next thing you're gonna do
is take the tail and
pull it up so that you want your chain stitches along the top and you're beads hanging
along the bottom. Then you're going to take your hook
and you're going to put it into the loop
of the first bead. For me that's a turquoise bead
and when you pull it through you want to take your turquoise bead
your bead 1 and put it to the left, then you're gonna bring
your string up between
this last red bead before
and the turquoise bead. So bring it over here on the left
you're going to drop down the next
turquoise bead, the next big one and its gonna sit right on top
of the one before and
bring your string across your hook
and you're gonna do a slip stitch which means
gonna pull that loop through
both of the loops that are already on your hook
then you're going to go to the next color. This why it's important to color
code when you're learning
and our next bead is yellow. So go to your bead 2
you wanna make sure that your bead is
to the left of the hook and that your string is coming between
that bead and the one before. You want to make sure that it's always
coming up
right between those two beads here and that this is over to that side
drop the next bead and again
you can see that you're working with one that's gonna sit right on top of the
same color
of the one below and
bring your thread to the right
across the hook and make another slip stitch, pull your
hook through both of the loops on the
hook. Do the dark blue bead
this third bead next to the third color so
through that loop move the bead to the left
bring your string between
that bead and the one previous. Drop down the next bead. It should be the same color as
that next one on the hook
and
bring your thread around and
make a slip stitch. Next is the red one
that's the last one form our original four beads
bring the bead to the left, bring the
string up between that bead in the next. Drop down the next bead
bring your
string over the hook and pull it through
so that's the first row. You're doing this in a spiral so you don't really have
much of a chain between rows but those are the first four. So this the first row
to continue just gonna keep going right around
the next color in the pattern is turquoise, bring it
your hook through that loop, bring the bead to the left
drop the bead down
make a slip stitch
and just keep going to the yellow
hook through, bead to the left
string between, drop your bead down
make a slip stitch
and thats all that there is to this
it is
kind of tricky to figure out the first time. I've crocheted for years and years
and years and this was tricky for me
to get the hang of but its kind of one of those
things that has an aha moment.
it will be really hard to understand until
all of a sudden it makes sense and then it will be very simple
so you can then move onto
projects that don't use four colors. You can use
one color, you can use two colors. When you
work in this way it gives you a really pretty spiral pattern so you can decide
how you want to arrange your beads
best for the pattern
so there's a little bit more of it. What you mostly see
is the beads and depending on what size hook you use, what size string you use
what size beads you use. You'll either see more of
the string or only beads. So you can kind of play with that a little bit
and as I said you can see a spiral
forming as the beads go around
and that
is how you do circular beaded crochet, the left-handed version
finishing this there's a few different ways to finish it
we'll actually do a separate video
on how to finish this, so check for that video on
how to finish circular bead crochet.
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