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Hi. This is Andrea from Beadaholique.com
and I'm gonna teach you herringbone stitch today.
Here is an example of Herringbone
used in a necklace.
What I did here is I sewed together
three separate panels of herringbone.
I also
added four millimeters Swarovski Bicones.
Just sewed them right in between each row
as little accent/
So right now I'm just going to teach you the basics
of herringbone.
Of course you're going to need a needle and thread.
I'm using fire line
and I'm
using it in the .006
size. But I'm using white to contrast against the color beads that I've chose.
I've got about one yard
on my needle and I also have here
two different colors of
toho
seed beads size 8/0 or
eight aught.
I'm just going to begin with a ladder stitch.
So if you're not already familiar with the ladder stitch
go ahead and watch our video on how to do that.
I'm going to be alternating my colors here so I picked up a periwinkle bead and I
picked out a gun colored bead.
You don't need to stopper bead for this
stitch. You're just going to need
to pull two beaded down to
about eight inches away from the end.
I'm going to go ahead and create ladder
of
about six beads here.
Here I have my ladder
of six beads.
Always with Herringbone you need an even number
because
your rows are rows of two and that's how you get that
nice slanted
bead look.
Normally for ladder stitch what I would do is I would go back and
reinforce the ladder making all of the beads lineup
really nice and neat. Actually I have done that on this
necklace. As you can see this
first row is just
perfectly straight and lined up next to each other
but for herringbone you don't necessarily have to do that.
So I'm just gonna go ahead
and start my stitch.
I have a gunmetal colored bead right there
that's where my thread is coming out of. I'm gonna pick up another
gunmetal colored bead
and also
another periwinkle bead.
I'm going to go down
through that
periwinkle bead
and back up
through the next bead
in the row
which happens to be a periwinkle bead.
You do the same thing. Pick up the gunmetal
periwinkle
go through.
This is a fun stitch because it's kind of instant gratification you can
already see
the pattern forming how those beads sit
like a v.
I'm going to go back up through that
last pairing.
One last time pickup the gunmetal
and periwinkle bead
and down to that last.
So that't you're first two rows right there.
What I want to do and what I do with a lot of my bead stitches is
turn it over so I'm always working the same direction.
I wanna do that
in this case
by taking my needle I'm going
between those last two beads
through that thread
catching that thread
and then go back up through both of those periwinkle beads.
I'm going to flip it over
so I'm always working from right to left.
Now since I've got periwinkle, gunmetal periwinkle, gunmetal
I'm going to pick up
periwinkle and gunmetal.
I'm going to go through that
second row
gunmetal bead
but instead of going all the way down and you're always going to have to
help your beads sit on top of each other
so it forms a nice pattern. Instead of going all the way through all of the rows I'm
just gonna go
right next to it
up through that periwinkle bead.
Pick up another periwinkle
pick up another gun metal
and you can even go all the way down and pull you're thread all the way through
or sometimes when it gets a little easier you do a shortcut and go
right next to it
through the bead right next to it.
Once again help your beads into place.
Now I have three rows and I want to go back up
and flip my work and I'm going to catch
my thread between the two
row before.
I'm going to go up through those
last two
row there.
Flipping my work once more so I'm always working
right to left.
I'm going to pick up
a gun metal bead because that's the row on working on and then
periwinkle
go down to the second bead.
You can do the shortcut. Go across
to the next bead.
Help your beads
fall into place where they are suppose to.
So now we have four rows
of Herrringbone stitch
and you can keep going and make it as long you want and
make a bracelet out of it.
How you would finish this off is you would do a ladder stitch
on the last
row and joined them altogether so their side by side
or you can do
what i did here and just make
short segments. I made
two segments
that were four
rows deep
and eight beads long
and one segment that is eight beads long and
eight beads deep.
Then all I did was I
ladder stitched
all three segments together.
So once again here's a really
versatile stitch. iIt's a really fun stitch. I like it. I think it's very pretty
and
I hope you have learned a lot and had fun.
Thank you.
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