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Hi this Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to bead
weave this little decorative accent which you can then turn into an earring
or I'm also going to go ahead and make these into a necklace as well. There's a
lot of things you can do with this design and it's really very simple to make
quite fun actually
you need these little spacer beads that have an extra loop
it's a variation on your classic daisy spacer. It just has this little additional loop
which is going to make these super easy to connect
if you are going to connect them you're going to need some jump rings
and then for this particular design I have two colors of size 11/0
delicas
and then I've got my needle which has been threaded already with some fire line smoke
in size .006
and what that does is if you can look at the finished example
you can barely see the thread and that's what you really want to go for, you want
the thread to disappear
the smoke on this antique copper plate looks really good and it blends right in
first off
go ahead place your needle
all the way through that hole
until you have a tail
of about six inches
take that tail
tie a simple knot
and then when you're pulling your knot down
pull it right
up against the loop
and go ahead and make a double knot
and pull as well
we're not gonna cut off this tail because we're going to go back and weave this back in
incorporate our thread back into our bead work at the very end
so now
take your needle
you can hold the thread out of the way if that's easiest, tail part
put five
beads onto your needle. One, Two, Three, Four
and five
slide them all the way down
go from the back side
through the middle hole
and we're gonna wanna pull our
thread. It's going to make a little arc
and we want
the last bead, the fifth bead, to rest on the junction
between the two little decorative
metal beaded
sections of the daisy bead spacer
I'm going back through
the fifth bead
in the opposite direction
and coming out and you see how that's just resting right there and we have our thread
bridge
which is nice and laying flat
so now this time I only need
four more beads because this is bead one already
put four beads onto my needle
slide them down
again I'm going from the back side
through the front
go up through that fifth bead again
which will suddenly become the first bead in
of my next beaded segment
it's almost like you're making petals at this point
four more beads
from the back
to the front
you want that fifth bead
to rest
between the
metal beaded
nice little metal beads
at the decorative edge of the daisy spacer
back through it
if you need to you want these to form a point so if you need to you can help it along
do that all the way
to the other edge of our loop
almost to the edge, one more final one
again
four beads
slide them down
back to front
go back
through that last bead
be careful on this one that your thread doesn't get caught
right here on the other side of the loop, you wanna make sure
you're able to pull it tight
so at this point
this is what we've got, now this is actually the first part
of the earring
and so
for this one
if you were making that first component you would just tie off your thread at
this point and incorporate
your tails back into your bead work but I want to show you how to do
this other
edge
to do the other edge. We are going through what was the fifth
bead
go through the one next to it
make sure you're continuously keeping tension nice and tight
go through the bead next to it as well
now for me this is a little bit easier right handed, I just
flipped it around to work
going left to right, so now I'm going to add five
of my other color
and then you'll just
the fifth bead
in all of these arches are petals or whatever you call them
sticks out a little bit
you can see that that comes to a point
so you want to go through that bead that is on the edge
it's sticking out
we just made
almost like a double petal here. You've got the first row and we got the second row
so now we can add another five beads
when you start doing a lot of these, these are going to go really fast for you
we've got five beads
go through the next
that middle top bead of the next petal
five more
if you wanted to, you could do this on the daisy spacer that doesn't have that
extra loop just for this design, that's gonna work really well and
it would be very easy to connect these but if you want to you could just use
another spacer bead
I'm going through these middle
arch beads, the middle top ones
the tension of the thread and just how the beads are and the fact that they we're using
an odd number, they're creating the shape on their own
I'm not having to do anything special to create this point
like petal like shape
this is the final one
do five more beads
go through it
go down through
these last
two beads
so conveniently
this actually gets us back to our original starting point
I have the thread, the tail end that we started with
I'm going to tie these two threads together
so I'm not removing my needle
tie a knot
and another one
you want to make sure that that knot is secure
take my thread
that has a needle on it
and I'm just gonna go back up through
some of my bead work
go in any direction you want just make sure that your retracing
your original thread path, I wouldn't want to go from here
like right over here, you want to
make sure that you're not seeing the thread
just going back through
so what this is doing is it's incorporating your tail but it's also
reinforcing your bead work
you can do this for as long as you like
when you're happy
I have a thread zapper here
and I'm just going to
zap off the edge of the thread
close to my beadwork but make sure you don't zap my actual bead work
take the needle
off of this cut piece of thread
thread it onto
my tail
the original tail I started with
now I'm just going to incorporate this thread into my bead work as well the same
way
now you can retrace the same thread path or you can retrace a different one
zap this off
so I have this little component now
and then if you want to attach two of these together
all you need to do is take a jump ring
I have little four millimeter jump ring right here
we're gonna open it up
just like so
this is where that little extra loop really comes in handy
I'm just going to actually through my bead work
this is the center point
just gonna go through it
there you go
close the jump ring
careful, you don't wanna
accidentally crack a bead or anything so just be patient
we have these two
which are connected
they dangle very nicely, so here's the finished piece again
you got this great earring and remember this was just
first part, this was step one
and then you just did an extra layer to do these more embellished pieces
and this project is available on Beadaholique.com under free projects
in the earring section. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!