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Hi. This is julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you how to do a
circular brick stitch for bead weaving.
To begin with I have thread onto my needle with about
three feet
a fire line thread. You use whatever thread you're most comfortable with.
I've chosen to use black. I might of choosen to use blue if I was doing this for
myself but for the video I wanted us to be able to see the stitching a lttle more
clearly.
I've selected three colors of seed beads and these are size 8/0.
So what you want to do to begin with to start the circular brick stitch
is you want to thread on
two beads.
We're not gonna be using a bead stopper.
Thread on the beads
pull them all the way down your thread till you get to about a
six to eight inch tail.
We're going to start a ladder stitch.
So we're going to take our needle and go back through the first bead.
As we're pulling it
we want the beads to line up
with their edges touching
so we don't what them to be on top of each other.
I'm going to go back through that second bead
and pull that thread again. I'm kinda holding my bead so that they're
sides are touching.
Now thread on a third bead
and now go back up and under
that second bead
and down through the third bead.
So this is a traditional ladder stitch what you're doing right here.
As you can see we've got three beads on so far. So now we're gonna reinforce
our ladder stitch. To do that I'm just gonna go
back through the second bead.
Pull my thread tight.
I'm going to go back through the first one.
So you're stabilizing your beadwork. Now I'm going to take my thread
skip the second one but go down through the first one.
So I've created
a little loop.
So what I want to do is I want these beads here too
form a circle. To do that
I'm going to help them out a little bit with my fingers
I want to keep the stitching on the sides, that
bridge.
I don't want them to collapse into each other
so I'm going to
guide them
into a circle. Now I wanna take my thread and loop back through what was the first
bead
to create another bridge.
So this is going to be the center of the circular brick stitch.
So to begin the second row what we're going to do is thread
onto the needle
two beads.
Pull them down.
You're going to go from behind
and go under
the bridge
of thread
pull it
and then go back
through
the second bead
you strung on the second row and pull tight.
We're just going to do that all the way around that
adding just one bead instead of two.
Put the bead on the thread. Actually I find it easier just to go under
right here.
Go under that thread
pulling
back up through
the bead you just strung.
You're just going to work your way around. There's no rhyme or reason to exactly how many
beads you're going to need to use for the second row or the third row once you
get there.
It's just whatever fits comfortably with your beadwork.
So I'm just going to go around.
Alright now that I've gotten to what is the end this is a little too small of a gap
to add another bead.
So to connect
my first bead of my second row and my last bead of my second row
I'm going to go down through the first bead
and up through the last
and I'm going to pull it tight.
There's one row.
To begin the third row
we're just going to the same process. We're going to pickup
two beads to begin with for the first stitch of each row.
Go back up through that second bead
and pull tight.
Then continue along
the circle just adding one bead at a time.
We're at the end of our third row again so we're going to do the same thing we did to
end
the second row. We're going to go back through the first bead of the third row
pull tight
go back up and under and through
the last bead of the third row
and then we'll be good to start our next row.
So that is a circular bricks stitch. It's very handy and a lot of fun.
Here's an example the piece of jewelry using a circular brick stitch. I've actually
used three different circular brick stitch rounds
all with different numbers of rows. The bottom one has six. You could see how much
larger than the middle one which has three
and this one here has four. So you can really vary
the amount of rows you have to alter the size.
So here with this bracelet we've actually used
the circular brick stitch round as little embellishments which has actually been sewn
on top of
another bead woven panel which is the right angle weave.
So have lots of fun with the circular brick stitch. It has lots of different applications and you can use it as
an embellishment. You can use it as an actual piece of jewelry itself
and you can make it as large and small as you want.
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