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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you how to bead weave
this ring shape that also resembles a wreath shape.
See how it looks on the back.
I've taken this one element and turned it into an earring.
You can go ahead and link them together and turn them into a bracelet or a necklace
or do what every you like.
I actually came about this design while trying to do another design and the beads
kind of led the way and this is what the end result ways.
So a good lesson to follow is when you're beads tell you to do something
follow it and see what happens. For this particular project you're gonna need six
size four millimeters czech pressed glass beads you can use another type of bead if
you like but the four millimeters is important.
Then you'll also need
three millimeter beads.
I have some seed beads. I have some size 10/0. These happen to be Miyuki delicas.
I like their shape to play off the shape of the czech beads.
In terms of tools I have a thread zapper,
a pair of scissors,
size ten beading needle
and I then I've got myself some wildfire thread.
To start you're going to want to cut yourself
about a yard of your wildfire thread.
So about three feet.
I'm just guesstimating. I'm not going to need this much. I'm not too worry about it.
I'm going to take
a Stopper Bead. A stopper bead is a random bead that's another color that you're
going to use as a place setter to hold your thread.
You're going to remove it in the end, so don't worry about it's color.
Just tie it on.
It's going to stay there until you want it to be removed.
I'm going to go to the end and thread my needle.
And for me I like to pull the thread
so that it is doubled and I don't have that much to work with. So almost all the way
to my stopper bead.
So to start
I'm going to put one seed bead
onto my thread,
one of my four millimeter beads, another seed bead,
four millimeter,
seed bead,
four millimeter,
seed bead,
four millimeter,
seed bead,
four millimeter,
seed bead,
and one more seed bead.
Scoot these down when it gets to be too much for your needle and finally my four
millimeter beads.
Pull those down to the base until you reach the stopper bead.
Now what I want to do is go back up
through the first bead I strung.
I'm going to try to hold that bead down by the stopper bead
pull my needle through
make a ring.
Now I'm going to place four more
seed beads
onto my needle.
Now I'm going to pass over so I'm not gonna go to go through the four millimeter bead
I'm going to pass over it. I'm going to go through the very next
seed bead.
You can see that made almost like a petal shape.
I'm going to repeat the same action so four more beads. Three. Four.
Skip over the four millimeter bead and go through
the seed beads which is between your four millimeter beads.
I'm going to check my tension as I go to make sure that these bead are
staying nice and near that stop bead.
I don't want my beading to be too loose.
You could probably figure out what I'm going to do next. I'm going to do four more
seed beads.
Go through the seed beads between the four millimeters.
I'm going to go all the way around.
When you get to the end
go ahead and go back through that original bead that you first strung
and pull through.
Now this is a pretty cute flower shape right now. You could leave it as it is
or you can proceed to the next step. The next step is actually the same
step you just did. You're going to do
four more beads onto your needle.
So one, two, three, four.
And again go through that middle
seed bead between your four millimeter beads.
You can see we're making almost like a double petal.
I'm going to go all the way around
doing to exact some process.
When you get to the last one
again go through that original bead.
This is why if you use a size 10/0 seed beads because I wanted a hole inside of them that was going to be
large enough to do all these pass throughs.
So this is what we've got at this point.
You see we have a double row like a double petal on each of the four millimeter beads.
So I'm coming out of that original seed bead.
Now what I want to do is I want to get through
one of the four millimeters,
the one closest so this is technically the
first four millimeters I strung.
After I've done that I'm going to pick up
one of my three millimeter beads
and I'm just going to go down through
the next four millimeter.
You can see my thread keeps getting my way and I'm just kind of working it so that it
doesn't.
I can even hold it with my fingers.
You see how that twisted, make sure it doesn't twist like
that. Just help it out.
There you go and I'm just going to go all the way around
adding a three millimeter to go in between my four millimeters.
Final one.
Now that that one's added we've actually completed our round.
Then you'll just tie off your thread. You'll go back and remove your
bead stop. Tie off that thread as well.
We actually have another video from Beadaholique.com which will show you how to
add and tie off threads
and you'll be using your Thread Zapper for that.
So there's the finish round
and this is what it looks like on the back side.
So identical to the one in the sample.
Then for this earring all I did was I took a four millimeter jump ring
I connected it to this ornate brass connector link
and then at the top I just added
an earring hook. I actually put a little extra seed bead on there just to help make the
bottom match the top.
And there's all there is to it.
I hope you had fun learning how to do this quick and easy bead weaving technique.
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