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Hi this Julie with Beadaholique.com. Welcome back to our part six of our video series
on how to make this Soutache earring which is covering the basic steps of
Soutache bead embroidery which you can apply to your other projects
so in the previous stage we attached our backing and we trimmed it
and now we need to stitch it in place, to do that you need some seed beads
I'm using size 11/0
for this project I'm using the same seed beads I'd used to make my bridge in an earlier
step just for a little bit of
consistency
so I've taken my needle and I've put on it
about twenty five or thirty inches of thread
the length thread will depend upon your project
and I'm just going to make a knot
at the end
and I'm gonna go ahead
and double that
trim my knot
close to the end
so go ahead we take your needle with the knot on the end
put it through one of these
side beads
I want my thread
to come out not the backside
but along the side part
of my Soutache. It can be a little tricky
That's
right where I want it
pull it. Now we don't want our little knot to show so go ahead and
pull it through until the knot catches on the inside
of the bead
now if you're familiar with brick stitch it's gonna feel very similar. We're picking up two
seed beads
sliding them down
and then we're going to go from the front
at an angle
about the width apart of these two seed beads side by side
go down
through our backing
go back up through the second bead
so if we were bead weaving we would start to be talking about things like thread
bridges and how we just created a tread bridge between the two beads
for this project I'm not going to have you go back and add extra embellishments but you
would have those thread bridges if you wanted to add another layer of beads on
top
of this first one
so now instead of picking up two beads I'm going to just pick up one
We're going to do the same process. We're going to go ahead and place our needle
through
the Soutache
going from the front
to the back and coming out the back of the ultra suede
then
secure it coming back up
through the same bead
and pulling
Do that all the way around. I'm going to do a couple more for you so you can just
see what I'm doing
I'm making sure that actually sticking my needle through that
bottom part of that Soutache ribbon each and everytime
coming out the back side of the ultra suede
then up
through that bead
and let me show you how to do this when you hit something like a jump ring
do the same process you're just gonna try to pretend that it's not even there
go ahead
make sure it comes out the back but the bead stays on the front side of the jump ring
we're just gonna go from the back through the jump ring
up through the bead
so we just ignored the jump ring basically do the same thing again
when you see what this is looking like on the back side, you can see a little
bit of the stitches
some are a little bit more discreet than others, you wanna watch that
try to make them as discrete as possible and make sure that they're secure
do a couple more together with you and then I'm gonna finish it off
and when
I get to the very end where my ends meet up I'll show you how to connect them
and tie a knot
and coax your beads a little bit
keep a close eye on the spacing
alright I'm going to do the rest on my own
and then I come back
and show you how to connect
up the two ends
Almost done. Just one more bead to add
if you end up with a space like this and to me just looking at it I feel like I
could get two beads in there
but when I actually look at it
more closely
it looks like just one bead, you don't wanna push it, if your
at a situation where you're trying to decide and it looks like one or it looks like two
usually it's going to be one because if you too many in there
it's going to scoop the other one's out of place.
Keep in mind. We are ready to do our final bead
I'm just going to center it because that is kind of a larger gap than I would
normally like
center between my start bead and last the bead
when it pulls together you would not have been able to fit two beads
same technique for the last bead as all the other ones but now we have a gap
We have to create a nice thread bridge so I'm going to go through
the top hole
of my first bead
down and out the back side
and now they're all secure and we've actually finished our edge. So all that's
left now is to secure it
before I secure it properly I'm going to just add a little reinforcement
up back up
through
one of my previously attached beads
and down one next to it
it looks great on the front but I just gave a little bit of extra
assistance. I'm going to go under
one of my stitches
go under all of it
pull my thread
make sure it doesn't knot on me and unintentionally
there you go
take my needle and go through the loop
pull tight
to create a little knot
go back up through another bead
my thread is getting a little bit warn here just getting a little
curly on me
take a moment if that happens to you what I like to do at least
to resolve it
straighten it out
get all the kinks out
I'm exiting a bead
go another bead and come through another bead
since you have a nice little
stitch right there that I can go under again
trying to go under the stitch more than the suede. You might catch a little suede
as you go under but I really want stitch
just that I can knot the thread
I don't have to worry if the suede every pulls out or anything which it shouldn't
I trust that thread more than I trust suede
create another loop
through the loop
and pull
make nice little knot
go up
through a bead
down through a bead
and trim my thread
there we go
we've completed our beaded edge
and now all that's left is to make the little dangle, the little connecter piece and attach
the earring hook
and since
this has already been a bit of a long video, I'm going show you how to do that in the
final video
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