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Hi This is Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you
how to use the Jewel Loom Beading Loom and it comes in a box like this
and you'll notice it's flat. So I wanted to go ahead and show you how to use this
one because it does require
very basic bit of assembly. What's great about it coming
flat and in this nice little pouch is that it's really easy for travel
if you're one of those crafters like
myself who can't bear to not bring a project with you when you go somewhere
so it comes flat like that and then it has
a little metal rod
You'll also get an instruction booklet and
a needle threader and a needle and this needle is
nice because it's extra-long. So when you have a wider piece
on your loom you're going to be able to go through all the beads. So I'm going to
put that aside for one second and I'll show you
how to put this together. So what you do
you'll notice that one side has the title on it and it's just raised. I'm not sure
if you can see it but if you
have the loom in front of you, you'll be able to tell it says Jewel Loom and the other side
has these little knobs
those knobs are what you're going to use to
secure your thread on the loom. So you wanna make sure that's
at back.
Take the little metal rod and insert
one end through one of the little holes
and then its flexible the plastic and you wanna gently
bend it until you can slip the other side of the rod into the other hole
It'll give you a curved loom to work with
and that's all the assembly. It's not a lot of assembly to
get ready to go. To thread this kind of loom
it is very similar to any other standard beading loom
you're going to use this little
knobs here. So go ahead and
tie your thread onto one of them
and you wanna go ahead and knot it tight enough around there. It's not gonna
slip of
but don't knot it so tight, you want to be able to cut it off later. Give yourself
a little bit of wiggle room there
If you've ever worked with a beading loom before
you're going to put your warp threads
across the loom and you want one
more warp thread than bead. So if you wanna do a piece that's six beads wide
you do seven threads across
and you can kind of center it. So if you're going to do something narrow you can work in
here. If you're doing something wider you wanna go ahead and start further over
give yourself enough room. I'm just gonna do it a narrower piece
just a few rows to show you how it works and just
wrap your thread in the little groove
across and then you're going to go
around the notch
and back. Go right to the next groove
continue
if you're going to use a very wide bead
such as a till bead or a tile bead, you can
skip some of the grooves
in general for seed beads you want to use every grooves
but you can kind of hold your bead up
and see
if you held it up to see how many different
warp threads it covers. You can kind of learn how far you need to space them if
you are using
a wider bead
so I have got seven threads. I going to do 6 beads
wide just to show you so that's enough for me. Go ahead and
cut your thread off the spool
leave yourself a little bit of a tail. Now you just wanna secure it
it just needs to be secure enough to hold
while you work. So go ahead and make sure it's not gonna
just pull right out and then you're fine. Now the beading needle that
comes with your loom as I said it's a little different than standard
beading needle because it is longer
that will make it really easy for a wider piece
it's not super tiny, so if you're going to use a smaller
bead like an 11/0 delica
especially if you're using anything smaller than that you want to make sure that
this is gonna fit
through the bead before you get going. I'm just using a
10/0 delica. I know that's going to be fine. So you've got a nice
dull point and really nice
long length on these needles here. You can always
use a different needle. You don't have to use the one that it came with
so go ahead and cut yourself a length
of thread to work with. I'm using nymo
I find for a loom
piece that I prefer using a basic nylon thread like nymo
it leaves a little bit more fluid because there's a lot of thread going through it
now you will usually need to
tie off an add a new thread as you work and you would do that the same way that
you would do it with an off loom piece
and we do have a video on How to Tie Off and Add New Thread in Bead Weaving
So to start I'm going to do a few rows to show you
go ahead and pick up six beads on the needle
now
you can decide how long your piece needs to be. If you
want it longer you're going to go ahead and start all the way
at the ends
to give yourself more room to work. You can slide a little bit if you end up
needing to move that over later
so take your needle with the beads and
position it underneath the warp threads and then I'm
going to push the needle with the beads
up under the threads and get
that threads to go in the spaces between the beads
so have you'll have a warp thread to either side of the thread
and then one between each pair of beads
Now pullover. You wanna leave a tail
on the end and I like to myself a nice long like eight inch tail
when I'm doing loom weaving because you don't want it to pull out
Once you have
your beads all set up
you're going to take the needle and you're going to go
back through the other way. Now the most important thing here
is that when you go the first time across
underneath you want your working thread which is called your weft
thread, the one that's gonna go back and forth, you wanna go underneath the weft
thread and now when you're going back across you're going to go over
so you need to make sure that you're needle is over all seven of
your warp threads as you go back across and if you miss one
you will have beads fall out. It's easy enough to pull it out and
fix it. Pull across
don't pull so hard that you lose your tail at the end. You just wanna pull snug but
not too tight
that's your first row
so
all you do is continue rows and you can
use a pattern, you can make up a pattern, you can do
solid colors, you can just use a mix of seed beads
it's entirely up to you. I'm just alternating colors here to show you
from row to row. Don't get your tail stuck in there
underneath and then you're going to go back across
over the top and pull that tight
you're going to continue that for as long as you want
on the piece and one thing to mention
If you have a nice
sturdy needle like the one that comes with this loom
I prefer to push my beads into place
on the needle and then pull the thread through, you can also it's
perfectly okay to do this this way
if you find it hard to hold them in place while you pull the thread through
you can just
pull the thread all the way through and then just put your finger position on the
beads
I just find that the needle hold them in place
while I'm getting them where they need to go. It's actually really
easy to get them in place after the first few rows. It's a lot easier.
If you having trouble with the first few rows, don't despair
That's all there is. It operates
just like any other beading loom and
we do have a whole other video on how to
Finish and Back Bead Loom Weaving. So if you need
tips or pointers on what to do with your weave when you're done
you can watch that video and get a few suggestions on how to do that but that
is how you set up
and use the Jewel Loom.
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