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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and welcome back, this is part five
of our video series on learning how to do Soutache Bead Embroidery. We're creating
this earring her right. If you've been following along you know
that were at the point where we need to attach our backing and cover up
all this back work and start to get it a nice finished look
you need some glue. I have crafters pick glue right here. This is
going to work great for this. If you have a fabric glue
that would work really well as well. I would not recommend like a GS Hypo
cement or an E6000. You're gonna really want something that's like a nice
white glue that's going to help you attach your backing but isn't gonna seep
through to the other side. You don't want anything too liquidy or too
saturated
so go ahead
and apply a small dab
glue to the back side of your work
try to not get any on the jump rings or on the front side of your work of
course
you do want to
smear it around the back side pretty well
this is going to have a two-fold affect, it's going to
help keep your backing in place while you stitch it on with your decorative
beaded edge
this is going to go ahead and reinforce
you're knots and also all the loops you've done with your
Soutache cord
so once you have glue on the back side
flip it over
make sure none of those frayed ends
and up on the front side although I could just trim them
place it
on your Ultra Suede
if your fingers are sticky make sure you get rid of any glue before you
touch the front
of your piece
and go ahead
and press them together
it's okay a little glue comes out the edge try to go ahead and just wipe it
away at this point
we're going to be cutting our Soutache here in the next step
we're gonna let that dry
and we're going to trim it
we've patiently waited and our glue has dried. You can see it's dark in the suede
a little bit where it spilled over which is totally fine. Go ahead and take your
scissors now and just rough cut out your piece
and go ahead and put the rest your ultra suede away
and now we're going to trim our ultra suede
I want you to trim fairly close to the edge of your outside Soutache
cord. You don't want to trim to the point where it's below the edge so that it's
actually not covering it so you want it to be fully covered. You don't want too much
though sticking out beyond it
you can see right here how much I've got
go all the way around, carefully trimming. If you're a little nervous about it
you have a nice sharp pair of scissors you can trim a little bit wide to begin with
and then go back and trim closer
as a second step
when you get to something like a jump ring or another finding attached
just pretend it's not there
now you of course you don't wanna snip the stitch work that you did
but you do you want to just
try to make it so that that's not
too noticeable
a good sharp pair of scissors will definitely help you in this task.
it doesn't have to be perfect, the main thing is you don't want to cut it
to the point where you're showing a lot of the back or any of the back actually
if you want a nice neat look you don't want to
over trim it
this is what I've got. I'm going to see if there's anywhere that I want to go and trim down a
little bit more
there is actually
and I'm pretty happy with that
so now we've gun ahead and we've actually attached our back and now we
need to stitch it in place
get rid of this one little notch
alright
there we go
so in the next part of this video series I'm going to show you how to actually
add a beaded edge around
to give it a nice finished look
if you're familiar with bead weaving it's a very similar technique to
circular brick stitch
it's adding a nice
finishing touch. So join us in the next part of a series for explanation on how
to do that. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!