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Hi. I'm Andrea with Beadaholique.com and in today's video I'm going to
teach you how to decrease
in brick stitch.
And while I'm at it, I'm going to show you how to make this neat bracelet.
So what this bracelet actually consists of
is twelve separate segments of decreased brick stitch in the shape of pyramids or
triangles.
Now if you watched the video on How to do Brick Stitch you'll know exactly how to do it and
you'll know that that beads lay staggered
just like bricks.
Instead of
just doing long rows of brick stitch for this bracelet,
I did separate segments, is that
it has a really cool kind of
scallop effect
if you do it this way.
And it looks sort of art deco. It's really pretty.
Once it's on it has a very cool structure to it
because the separate triangles kind of keep their shape.
First things first
you're going to need
some four millimeter Miyuki
beads
I choose two similar colors but you can do a real contrasty thing if you want to
pick two
different colors.
You're going to need two tubes of each color. So four
tubes total.
You're going to need some 11/0 seed beads as the little turnaround beads at
the tip of each pyramid and also I use them as a little
decorative edge
on the finished bracelet.
So I've already gone ahead and zipped them
together. All eleven
of these segments.
I;m going to make the twelfth segment.
to show you how
and then I will show you how to
add it to the bracelet.
If you are not
familiarity with
ladder stitch
go ahead and review our video on how to do that because and it kind of go quickly
through
that step.
I have about one yard of Fireline thread
and I've got a little stopper bead.
An adjustable one. I don't have it tied on. It's just
on there
about eight inches away from the end.
I'm going to do my first row which is the bottom row of the pyramid and it's going to
be seven
beads long of ladder stitch. So I'm going to go ahead and do that.
I have my base row done. Seven beads in a ladder stitch.
Also I just wanna point out really quickly
that each one of these segments is staggered
or alternating
so
the ones with the
base, the wide point on this side of the bracelet, have the gold
iridescent beads
at the bottom
and the ones facing the other way have the green as a base
row.
I need one more segment and it's going to be facing
this way. So the
beads I'm using and in the base row, the green iridescent.
So just
like you would do in
regular brick stitch
I'm going to pick up the next
color of the next row.
I'm going to pick up two
at one time.
I'm going to thread my needle
underneath
the thread that's connecting
the second and third bead, not the thread that's connecting the first two beads.
I'm going to skip those and go to the next one.
And those beads should kind of start to sit in place. You can help them along.
I'm going to take my needle
and I'm going to go up
through that first bead of the second row.
Pull tight.
Now they're really sitting close together.
Now I want to go back down the second one of the second row
and underneath that same thread that you passed
under the first time around.
Then back up through that second bead.
As you can see the next row already staggered a little bit and set in from
the first row.
There's a different way to do this but it
would require
you to start with only one bead instead of two
and also you would see the thread on the outside of the pyramid which we don't
want. We were our thread
to be hidden.
So now I have my first two beads of the second row on.
I'm going to pick up one more of the same color, the gold color.
Now I'm just going to go through
underneath
the thread that connects
the next two sets of beads in
the first row.
The back up to that third bead.
Again I'm going to do the same thing just adding one bead at a time now.
Go underneath
that connecting thread
in the first row
back up
through your bead
I've got two more in this row.
Now I have my first two rows of my pyramid done
and I always love to do my beadwork in the same direction so I'm going to flip
it over.
I'm going to work on my third row which is going to be a green row.
So just like I did in the previous row I'm going to pick up
two of my green beads.
Remember I'm going to skip this first
connecting thread and pick up
the connecting thread between the second and third beads.
I'm going to go
back up
through the first bead
of the third row.
So my beads sit nice and tight together.
Back down to second bead and underneath that same connecting thread that you passed
through the first time
and back up.
Then the rest of the row is
as easy as the previous row was. You're just going to pick up one at a time now
and pass your needle
underneath that connecting thread
directly underneath where you want your bead to go
and then go back up
through that bead.
We only have two more for this row.
Once you've added the last bead on the row
flip your beadwork over so you're working in the same direction right to left.
At the start of the fourth row we're going to do exactly what we did
with the previous rows. I'm going to pick up two.
Skip the first connector, go through the second, the thread bead between the second
and third bead.
Go back up to your first bead
down through the second and under that same thread
and back up
through the second bead.
Now we're just doing one at a time.
This is going faster and faster as you can see because
your pyramid is getting smaller and smaller.
And flip your beadwork over.
This row only requires
three beads
but still you're gonna pick up
two for the first
go round.
Always skip the first connector thread, go through the thread between
the second and third beads
and one more for this row.
Remember we're alternating colors
Flip your beadwork over and in this row you only need two.
I'm going to pick two
of my gold beads up.
Once again skip that first connector so I'm just going to go right under that
last
two bead connector
back up through the
first one
back down through the second
underneath that same connector thread
and then back up once more.
Flip your beadwork over and now we only need one bead.
I'm going to pick up my last
bead for very tip of the pyramid
but then I need
somewhere to go from here.
I can't just go down back down into the bead or else
obviously my thread will come undone.
So I'm going to need a turnaround bead. That's why I have these little 11/0's
here.
I'm going to pick up one of those.
All I'm going to do right now
is go back down through the tip of the pyramid. I'm going to go all the way
down
one side of the pyramid
and pull tight.
This is where I'm going to make my half hitch knot.
I'm going to thread my needle
underneath my connecting thread right here.
Go around my needle once with my thread
or twice.
Now I can go
back up
if I want to
just for a little
added security.
I can go through
the turnaround bead
again
and now go down
the other side of the pyramid.
So I have my thread coming out of
the last hole
right next my bead stopper.
I'm not going to cut the bead stopper thread.
I'm just very carefully
use my
Thread Zap II
to trim off
my working thread.
I'm going to remove the excess thread from this needle.
You can use a different needle if you want.
I'm just going to
take off
my stopper bead
and I'm going to add my needle
to
the tail.
Okay now that I have
my needle added to the tail
my thread.
I'm going to do what I did with the other
working thread.
I'm going to run my needle underneath the connecting thread between the first two.
make a little overhand knot.
Pull tight.
This time you don't have to go back up through the pyramid and catch the
turnaround bead and come back down.
You can just weave
the rest in if you'd like.
So I'm just going to go up
through levels.
Once I feel like it's
thread work is sufficiently hidden and sufficiently
secured.
I can go ahead
and trim off the access.
So now I have my nearly finished bracelet
and I've got some thread
coming out of
where i was zipping
the pyramids all together.
I'm going to sew on this last pyramid
just to show you how to complete this.
As you can see the thread is coming out
from
right underneath the tip of the pyramid.
I want to catch
this bead right here.
What I'm doing essentially is I'm going to be doing
and kind of a modified ladder stitch
to join these together.
I'm going to bring my thread up
through this bead
back down and down through
the second bead
down the side of the pyramid.
Then I'm going to
come and catch this bead and go around
and back down
catch that bead and around and catch the next bead
until they're all nice and snug, up against one another.
I want to kind of explain it first because once I get started it's a little
difficult to see.
So remember I'm going down the pyramid and I'm going to go through the next bead.
I'm going to
cut across
to the bead
in the newly formed pyramid here and go up.
Pull those two tight
go back down through
the second row and also through the third row.
I'm going to catch the last bead in the tip of the last pyramid here
and go back through
the base of the adjacent pyramid just for
good measure
and that's
the bulk of the bracelet.
So at this point I can either
tie off my thread and weave the best in
or I can add my loops and my decorative edging
and done with the bracelet at that point.
Also
another really
easy and fun thing to do with this weave
is to leave the pyramid separate, make only two of them
and they're
little christmas trees that you can make into earrings.
I think we're gonna have a upcoming project on that
ready for christmas time.
I hope you've enjoyed this and you've learned a lot. Thank you so much for watching.
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