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Okay, now we'll complete our first fringe piece. And you want to bring the beads up
close to the edge of the pillow and we're going to grasp those five pink beads that
we're using for a loop. We're going to hold onto those and we're going to return through
all the rest of the beads, not the five beads that we're using for the loop, but all the
rest of the beads we're going to return the needle through. And hold on to your looping
beads, the three, the five pink beads and you hold onto them and you pull the thread
until the loop comes up taught. Now you want to be careful not to pull too taught because
then you have a very stiff piece of fringe. You want enough slack in your thread so that
the fringe will lay down and drape nicely. When you finish that piece of fringe we're
going to do a little bit of a half hitch knot just to secure each piece of fringe. So you
grab a little bit of fabric, go into the fabric just a little bit, pull, hold the loop with
your thumb, just, or finger and then put your needle back through that loop and pull it
down snugly. Now to go to the next fringe section you put your needle back in exactly
where the fringe starts and follow the needle along the seem line, hiding the thread and
coming out at your next marked point. Now be careful not, again, not to pull that thread
too tightly. You want to leave that piece of fringe nice and loose and draping and now
we'll redo our sequence. Following exactly the same as our first one.