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Okay we're going to start by marking off our wall hanging in a one centimeter intervals.
And I like to use pins because they don't leave any mark on the fabric, and you don't
need to wash the project when you're finished with it, you can just pull the pins out of
it as you go. Now if you find the pins get in the way you can use fabric markers or chalk,
and experiment with whatever you prefer to use. Let me mark off a small section so that
I won't have so much in my way. And we'll work on this and then we'll remark the rest
as we go. You want to thread your needle and knot it, and we're going to start at the corner
here putting the needle into the back of the corner. So that you don't see it. Now if can
you want to hide that knot so you don't see it. And we basically a lattice is an open
diamond pattern, and we use a combination of the bugle beads which are the longer glass
beads and the seed beads. And we make rows and then we connect the rows to make sort
of a netting effect all the way across. So we're going to start with two dark colored
seed beads and then I'm going to alternate the bugle bead with the dark seed bead. Until
we have four bugle beads and four dark seed beads, like this. And to pick up the beads
you just you place your needle you catch the side of the bead like that and put it right
on. And for the seed beads you just put your needle right into the center and you use your
finger to push it on to the needle. So now you have, whoops I caught my thread here,
you have a row of four bugle beads separated by four of the dark seed beads. Now I'm going
to take three of these green beads to make a drop at the bottom of our row. And you return
through just one seed bead right here, the first dark seed bead you want to return through.
Which I'm having trouble seeing the hole, there. The green beads are going to be a drop
so we're going to hold onto the green beads and pull that up tight like that. It makes
the green beads make a little cluster at the bottom of our row.