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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com
today I'm going to show you how to weave
the CzechMates™ two hole brick beads into
a brick pattern which is good to know how to do since their brick beads and
this makes them
look like cute little bricks and this stitch is kinda
a cross between a latter stitch and a *** stitch and its
actually also the same stitch that I used on this bracelet
with the CzechMates™ Two-Hole triangle Beads. So if you're going to be
weaving two hole beads together
it's a really good way to just do a nice standard stitch
to cover something with and both of these I've just used
pieces to cover these really great Nunn Design channel bangles
so I'm going to show you
the basic technique and if you do know how to do
a ladder stitch and *** stitch it'll be
very familiar. I'm using
a darker thread here so that you can see my thread
and I'm just going to do a small piece. Once you've
get how it goes it'll be very easy to figure out the rest
so I'm going to do a piece that's three beads wide
you can do also with this one I did this is four beads wide so
it can be even or odd and it still works the same because the two holes
help you out with turning so
I'm doing three beads wide. I'm going to go ahead and string three beads
onto my thread, you going to you
flip your beads around so that you have them
alternating which side of your thread they're going to
and if he had more you just keep alternating and you just want
your top bead to be facing in the direction that you're going to work
you can definitely use a bead stopper
or use a stopper bead
so then you're going to go
back down through
your top bead into that second hole and then
you have this little space here
you're going to pick up another brick bead and continue
through the second hole in the next bead and if you have
more than three you continue all the way down
picking up a new brick bead in between
the ones you already have and now we want to
just like in ladder stitch you want to reinforce your stitches to make them
lay nice and flat. Go right back
up through your original holes
all the way through the three beads that you have there and then in order to
move forward we need to go back down through the other side again
again you're just gonna go through following the thread path
Now we're going to go ahead and move on
and you just wanna fill in wherever you have an indent
right now I need to pick up another brick bead
then go through the one I have that's
sticking out there and then I need to fill the space
and pick up one more
and to connect this to the last row
going to go back down through make that a
complete loop
and then right back up through the thread path
you'll do a lot of looping around but it makes it really
even and sturdy. It's just like in ladder stitch when you have to loop all the way
back around
a lot of the time and then we're going to
go on to the next stitch. So go down
through the other hole in your brick
we need to fill this spot. You're gonna pick up a new brick bead
and then continue back through the next hole
and at this point we're just repeating
what we did in the last section
so back up and back down
through the other hole
then were going to now add
a brick at the beginning and a brick at the end. So pick up one
go through that second hole
pick up one and then you're going to go
back over, go down and then
back up through
and it is possible to adjust your spacing if you pull these nice and
tight
you will get less of a gap between your bricks, if you want them a little
bit looser you can show more
between them. Depending on the tension that you use
will determine whether or not you have any space between the brick beads
I'll do a couple more
and I do find it helps to keep your bricks
facing the way that they're going to, in the direction that they're going
to
as soon as you string them it helps to keep track of where you are
to bring them all the way down and put them facing the way they're going to go
instead of flipped around
and one way to know that you've looped all of them the right way is
you shouldn't have any gaps in your thread bridges, you should have
thread bridges
between every pair of holes
and between every pair of beads on both sides
to know that you've reinforced it enough to make it really nice and sturdy and it
also will help
keep it straight and even. Keep it from curving off to one side
one other thing I want to mention is that just like
in *** stitch this can be zipped together
and that is what I did with it in here. I don't
have a visible seem. I just zipped the ends together
and as long as you do you
end it so that they fit together instead of butting up. You want to end it so
that
where you have a bead that sticks out on one side you have an
indentation on the other side and you just
go through and
don't forget to still loop back around to reinforce your stitches when you do
that
just like if you are adding a new
bead
finish up by attaching the outer beads
so that's how you stitch these little
brick shaped beads into brick pattern
and if you're going to do a different two hole
bead shape you can do just same thing. I can actually slide this off here and show
you the bottom
you can see it still looks like bricks
you just need to be aware with the triangle beads and these other
shaped to hole beads, that you're
going into the right hole of the bead because it does have a top side and a
bottom side whereas the bricks
are symmetrical on the top and the bottom
and if you need to learn how to tie off and add new thread
we do have a video on how to do that. You could watch that to learn.
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