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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I want to show you how to chain stitch crochet
with beads
It's actually fairy very easy to do and it's a fun way of incorporating beads
into your crochet work or incorporating your crochet work into beading
what you're going to need is you're going to need some type of string, for
this particular video I'm using pearl cotton size eight. It's very
soft
it's very thin which is nice and flexible
I'm going to be using size 10/0 miyuki delica beads. They've got a nice
big hole in size they're pretty easy to put onto my pearl cotton
I've got a size nine crochet hook
see the tip is quite small but that's what we want
I have a bigeye needle which is going to help me get my bead onto my pearl cotton and I have
a pair of scissors
so I've preloaded my beads onto my pearl cotton and the way
you do that is very easy. I can just take a few off here and show you
take your big eye needle
open it up
put your string
through
the needle
and then you just going to
go ahead and pick up some beads
slide them down
and pull them on to your
thread
so that is how you get the beads on there. I've preloaded them
just keep sliding them down
because you need to make sure that you start with enough beads to complete your
project because you're not going to be able to go back and add them later
so the way that we're going to start this is by making a slipknot
you want to leave about an eight-inch tail
and to make a slip knot
you just go-ahead loop
the thread or whatever you're using
a round, a couple fingers
push
it through
and pull
and then what you have is a slip knot
which is adjustable
I'm going to show you how to do that again. Pull out your slipknot
just pull
loop it around
basically making a hole
your putting
your thread through it
but you're not pulling the tail all the way through
and now you have an adjustable knot
so that's how you're always going to start chain stitch crochet is with that
slipknot
and then you're going to insert your needle through it
and pull
now if you have not done crochet before the way you're going to line up your thread, you take
your thread
put it between your pinky and the finger next to it
loop it around
cross over
your fingers on the inside part of your hand
and then around your index finger
and likes so so that it comes back out and you're holding it up between your middle
finger
and your thumb
I'll show you that again
so loop it around
between our pinky and the finger next to it
loop it around
cross over your other two fingers on the inside part of your hand
make sure it comes out
so you're going around your index finger
and then you're grabbing it between your middle finger and your thumb
so that's how you're going to start
so this is keeping the tension, this finger right here is going to keep the
tension of the thread
the way we're going to do a chain stitch. It's all involved in a chain stitch is take your
needle
loop it so that you grab
the thread
pull it through your loop
and that was just one chain stitch
do that again. Go under and loop around the thread
grab it with that
little hook
pull through your loop
keep repeating that
and right now your chain stitching and that's all there is to it. It's so easy
and here you can make your loop bigger
or smaller
you've got a lot of flexibility in there. You see how
this finger's keeping the tension
and then if you end up with it too loose, go ahead
wrap it around your hands again so you have a better grip on it
make a loop
and pull through
loop over
and pull through
so that's all there is to chain stitching
if you want to pull-out chain stitch
all you got to
is pull
put my needle
back into the loop that's keeping it from pulling out now. I'm going to add beads
the way that I find that is easiest to take
five or six beads
and pull them down
so that they are up against the crochet hook
loop it around our fingers
so now
our bead are caught between our index finger and our crochet work
put one at a time. Do one
that's up against our hook
do the same process for that chain stitch
and now trap the bead
now we're going to not add a bead and do a single chain stitch
and now we're gonna add a bead
scoot a bead
and we're gonna just pretend it's not even there, make sure it's trapped
do a chain stitch
and we're going to not add a bead and do regular chain stitch
add a bead
scoot it down
go over
pull through
do one without a bead
add a bead
I'm going to do a few of these so you can what I'm doing, making sure that I add
the single chain stitch between each bead and that's just gonna make your
actual length a lot more flexible
see I want to be able to make sure that it can move
this is what we got
when you need more beads all you do id grab another five or six or however many you are
comfortable with
scoot them down
reloop your fingers
and then continue as normal
you do that for as long as you want. I'm going to do a couple more because I know it can
be a little bit hard when you're first learning this
if I need to have
a little more thread I'm just pulling so that I was pulling it so it's coming nice
and loose off of that spool
then
time to add another bead
I'm just going to add one more bead, do another chain stitch and I'll show you how you
would end this
do one more
so let's say you've made an earring, that you want this to be the length of an earring
or you've done a long strand and you're ready to tie it off
what you're going to do
you make a loop a little bit bigger
and hold it, pinch it
go ahead and cut your thread
take your tail
put it through the loop
pull
that creates a knot
and now you're crochet work is not going anywhere from either end
and that is how you chain stitch crochet
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