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Hi this Julie with Beadaholique.com and I we have something really fun to show you today
I have a Deluxe Kumihimo beading kit in front of me and I want to show you
everything that's included with it. It's great if you're new to Kumihimo
it has everything you need to get started or if you've already done Kumihimo
and you're looking to add to your supplies. It's a wonderful assortment
I feel like I'm opening a present here so I want to show you everything that's in this
wonderful box
first off you have two
beading discs and these are full size
and you have a square one, which is going to allow you to do a flat braid. You've got
numbers at the top and the letters on the side
and then you have a round one that's going to do a round braid
so both of these really easy to work with and the come with instructions for
various projects inside as well as tell you how to do a Kumihimo braid
if you're not familiar with Kumihimo we do have lots of
free instructional videos on Beadaholique.com showing you all different sorts
of braids and finishing techniques
now along with the Kumihimo disc you'll get some bobbins to wind your cord onto
we've included ten bobbins
which is going to give you enough to do a round and flat braid
and several different variations of your round braids, so that's fun. You'll have
all the bobbins you need
and now my favorite part
is you actually get twenty colors of one millimeter rattail cords
I'll pull all of these out so you can see
how many colors you get
you'll see a
wide range of colors
you could do a bunch of different patterns
you can do one that's all
naturals
something like that
or you can do a really bright one
whatever you like, there's going to be lots of combinations here. Each length is
six yards long each
I'll open one up so you can see how soft and flexible the satin rattail is
and they're wound, they're not going to tangle when they come, you can see
just pull it out you're going to have your have six yard piece
now once you make your braid you need to have a way to finish it and we wanted
to make sure that with this kit we gave you enough supplies to actually finish
fifteen projects
so we've included five
complete Kumihimo accessory kits
and each one of these is gonna have
each one of these is going to have
Kumihimo cord ends
either shaped like a barrel or a bullet
they're gonna have a little slide which can go over your Kumihimo braid and you
put a little charm on it
a toggle bar and a toggle ring here for a clasp
and they come with jump rings which allow you to attach the clasp to the
cord ends
there's five different kits ranging in size from six millimeters which
the diameter of your braid
to eight-millimeter
they come in a variety of metal finishes as well
so those are great for the round braid and four attaching these to your braid
you're going to need some glue
so we've included some E6000 glue which is an industrial strength adhesive
it's great for Kumihimo
and then if you're doing a flat braid
we've included everything you need to finish a flat braid
you'e got ribbon pinch crimp ends
and for your flat braid
you just going to put them on the end like so
and then we also included two different sizes of jump rings
and ten lobster clasps. That's going to let you finish ten different flat braid projects
then we have one final item in here and this is a Kumihimo weight
if you're familiar with Kumihimoing
you know that you feeding the braid through the center of the Kumihimo disc
it's coming out of the bottom
you attach this weight to the base of your braid and it'll keep your braid at an even
tension level
the entire time so you get a nice smooth braid
just to recap everything you get in here: you get the two discs, you get the
Kumihimo weight
you get some E6000 glue
finishing components for ten
flat braids
you get finishing components complete kits
for five round braids
ten bobbins
if you're not familiar with what a bobbin looks like
just looks like that, you wind your
cord into the bobbin itself
snip it close and what it does is it keeps your
cords from tangling and keeps them on while you are doing your
braiding
and then
you get this wonderful assortment of
twenty different colors, six yards long each, one millimeter in diameter
of satin rattail cord
and before I sigh off here I want to quickly show you a few projects that have been made
using Kumihimo
first thing I want to show you
is actually this long braid right here
so what I did to make this braid is I actually took directly from the kit
I took four
colors. I took the white
the green
the red and the gold
I took four colors, they're six yards each so I cut then each in half so they are three yards
each
and that would give me eight which allows me to a standard warp
braid which is what you see right here and I thought I would be fun to just
keep braiding until I ran out of cord length and what resulted was a forty
four inch braid
and what you can do then is you can cut this down
to make a series of necklaces and bracelets or all necklaces or all bracelets
what every you want to do
so if you do all bracelets and let's say you had a six-inch cord for
the bracelet
and you would add an inch for the clasp
you'll be able to make seven bracelets out of these four colors alone and then you're
gonna get twenty different colors
in each kit. You see you'll get a lot of
product you're gonna be able to make
if you're not sure how to cut this cord and how to finish it we do have
those instructional videos on Beadaholique.com
showing you just how to do that
so now I want to show you some more examples of use some of Kumihimo braids
I've got these guys over here
and here you'll see two examples of a flat braid, both were done with one
millimeter ribbon
you can see I have a short one which just goes around once
and then I just braided a little bit more and then I can wrap around twice
just same technique, different style. That's a ten warp flat braid
here I have one I actually used
just some Super Lon cord, it's a little different
cord than what's included in the kit
it shows you can add beads to it, this the exact same braid as this
one here I just added some beads
here we have a necklace that has some larger pandora style beads added to it and
some beads as well, little tiny ones
and you can see we just braided it longer to make a necklace
here is a spiral beaded Kumihimo bracelet
this too used the Super Lon cord and added beads in spiral pattern
here I did some Kumihimo
and this was the eight warp braid and I just added long Magatama beads to it
here I have one that was used with Griffin silk
and I added little Miyuki delicas
and here's a little wedding choker I did
using combination actually of Super Lon cord and cord that's in this kit
here which was the
satin rattail cord
and then we added
some swarovski crystals and some other seed beads as well and here is one of the
toggle bar kits that you'll see is included in your kit, this particular
style the gold bullet shape
so I hope these have given you some inspiration of what you can do with the
kits ingredients and what you can perhaps add to them
all of these were made using those same Kumihimo plates, the round and the
square
the same bobbins, the same glue
the same
Kumihimo weight and in some instances we just added a different type of cord or a
different type of bead and did
our braiding that way
so I hope this has given you lots of inspiration. That kit is a great way to either
get started
or supplement the supplies you already have. It's so much fun to open it up and have
everything you need right there
so you're ready to go and you can make a total of fifteen
complete projects with that kit. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!