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Okay, we're going to start our beading at the corner and you want to try to find a place
to bury your knot so that you're not seeing it. So in the corner there's a little bit
of an indent and I'm going to pull my thread through there and you can make an extra stitch
to hide your knot if you'd like. I'm going to do that. And that will kind of tuck my
knot into the corner. Oops I'm losing a pin. Okay, now we'll take our first bead. If you
put your needle into the hole like this, it's nice to have trays for your beads. These are
actually just covers to plastic containers. They're nice to have. Anything with a really
small lip and a reasonable size to hold the beads and that keeps it from, the lip doesn't
get in the way of your hand when you're picking up your beads, but it holds the beads in so
they're not rolling all over the place. Okay, so you want to put the needle into the center
of the bead, and then this finger can just push the bead up onto the needle, and we'll
pull that all the way down. And then I'm going to take another bead. These are called seed
beads. They're very small, and the seed bead is going to hold the larger bead on. So again,
you put the needle into the center of the bead and you just push it on. I've already
got one on my needle. Okay, now when I get to here I'm going to go back up through my
large bead but not through the small bead and you want to make sure that the thread
doesn't get knotted or twisted anywhere and if you hold onto the seed bead and just kind
of pull the thread until the seed bead comes right up to the large bead and then do, put
your needle into to fabric and we'll do just a little knot here. We'll go, we've made a
loop and now we're going to put out needle back through the loop and there's our first
bead.