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OK, let's start by threading and knotting our, our needle and our thread. Now, I want
to mention here, that, I'm using about twenty inches, double, of the, the polyester thread.
You want to make sure that it is smooth and it doesn't have any bumps or imperfections
in it. And, you, I, you don't want to use too much more than twenty inches. If you get
too long, you're prone to get a lot of knotting, and catching on things. So, twenty inches
is about good. Now, we'll start at the corner. You want to look for a little bit of a tuck
or a fold, to stick your needle into, and that will help you hide the knot. And just
pull that slowly. You can go through one more time, to secure that. And then we'll start
with our pattern. We're going to start with four seed beads. Now, to pick up the beads,
you can, you put your needle into the center of a bead, and then just push it up, the bead,
with your finger, your other finger, and then secure it, or hold onto them with your other
finger here. Now, it, as you practice, you'll do this a lot faster. I'm starting with four
gold seed beads, and one brown seed bead, one bugle bead, a nice gold bugle bead. Now,
for the bugle beads, you'll just, the bugle beads, if you have them in a single layer,
and you can just look for the hole in the side. And again, just push it onto your needle
with your finger, and then catch it with the other finger. And then, as, as you go, you
pull the beads down onto the thread. Another brown seed bead, another bugle bead, just
chase that bead around. Two brown seed beads, and now we have five of the pink beads, one,
two three, four, five, and that, we'll make the loop from.