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Hi this Julie with Beadaholique.com and this is part two of our video series on
how to do soutache bead embroidery and in this series we're going through the basics
soutache steps which are required to make this earring here
and we are in stage two which we're going to be creating a two-sided join
so we already created this much work in the first video
you can find it on Beadaholique.com if you did not watch it already
and now what we need to do is join the two sides together, you can see
they're separate at this point
we'll end up closing the little gaps that we have
between our bead and the inner layer of our soutache ribbon
and then we're going to connect and anchor so that then we can start to make other
flourishes as seen here in the example
so your thread should already be attached to your needle. You're using the same length of
the thread that you started with. We haven't tied a knot and we haven't cut
anything
and your thread should be exiting the bottom of your bead
we're going to on the left hand side separate out our
soutache cords
so what we need to do with this is just take your needle
and put it through
the center
core
of that first
soutache on the inside
I want to do it a little closer up to the bead itself and there you go
we're going through
the one on the left
now go ahead
take your needle
go back through
that same ribbon
pass below your bead
and go through just the one
soutache cord on the right side
try to be as much in the center of that soutache cord as well
pull through
retrace your steps again
go back through
and this time
good through your entire stack
come out
on the outside in the center
you see at this point I am pinching these together a little bit
now we need to do is connect the other ends
I'm going to pinch these together
make them nice and even
take my needle and I want to go through it again
all of them
and come out the other side
like so
don't want my thread to knot. Pull tight
and do that one more time just to make sure we are nice and secure
although through all of them
coming out on the left hand side
and there we have just created
a two-sided join we got rid of the gaps which was up there by a bead
now what you can see
when we separate this
it's anchored there in the middle
so we're ready to add some beads to each side and we'll do that in our
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