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Hello. This is Julie for Beadaholique.com. Today I want to show you how to
create a various of loop fringe in bead weaving using briolettes.
Here's what the finished piece is going to look at like. In a moment here
I'm going to take this apart so that we can put it together together.
You can see I haven't secured my ends yet and we actually have another great
instructional
video that shows you how to start add and finish and ends in bead weaving.
The basic structure of this necklace is a traditional right angle weave
and you can see that here is probably how you're familiar how a right angle
weave looks. Then as we progress down the length of the necklace I actually
continued with the basic right angle weave I added more beads to my stitches.
Really simple thing to do and I just continued along
and kept adding a few more beads
but keeping up with the same right angle weave stitch.
When you get down here I wanted a little bit more interest so I created these
draping loops
and I added briolettes at the base of it. So let me show you how to do that by
first taking apart the work I've already done.
Just going to pull that thread out.
I know this is painful to watch for those of you who
do a lot of bead weaving and sometime you have to take out your stitches because of
mistakes but this is actually a good reason to take out my stitches.
I do want to show you how to do this.
So here we go. Here's the basic necklace again just a right angle weave all the way
around.
I've threaded a needle with about four feet by fire line.
What I'm going to do now
is I'm going to
start
by seeing how I want my pattern to go. I'm just going to
follow my curve here and I know I want to start right here
at the beginning
of where my black bead starts. My black bead pattern.
I'm going to pull my thread through so I have a tail of
about eight inches.
Now I'm just going to
go through the bead work which is already been
secured.
I'm following the same line of the original
bead weaving.
Because I would want to crossover in the middle here and have my thread show.
So for your own personal project you'll just going to decide where you want to start. You'll
have a different pattern than you might be using for this technique but for my pattern
I knew I wanted to
start at beginning of the
black beads and then I knew I wanted to come out on the fifth bead.
So having done that I'm going to
thread onto my needle
two of my little
seed beads. I'm going to do a little three millimeter czech bead,
four millimeter czech bead,
one of these great little deco drops,
a briolette.
Then I'm going to make an mirror image of that same pattern. So another little deco
style drop,
four millimeter, three millimeter and two seed beads.
Pull that all the way down.
For this pattern I want to
skip one of my beads in the middle and I want to go backup through the
next one.
See right where that lies.
Pull that snug and I have my first a look.
I'm going to repeat that process now,
make two more.
So now I've got my loops and what I'm gonna do now is I'm going to do what I did on the
other side where i woove my thread back through my original bead work.
I'm just going to do that on this side.
And there we go.
I will just secure my threads
before I cut off the excess.
As you can see
we now have three lovely soft drapes using briolettes.
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