you may be familiar with our Deco Noir Kit, it's a great introduction
to peyote stitch and it also utilises the lovely e-hooks as the clasp you can see
that now our original Deco Noir bracelet kit is done in quite dark
colours and I thought I'd try it out in very very pale colours so this is
using the opaque light smoke color in Delicas and also galvanised silver which I
think looks really nice together and you still get that effect of the matte
and shiny together which is what I was aiming for. So I thought now that I
started this project I'd actually show you how to connect the e-hook on to the
end here so using lighter colored beads with a
dark hook I'm going to utilize some red thread for the purpose of the
demonstration which I thought makes life a lot easier. So this I'm just gonna
ignore that thread because after I've done this I will be finishing off properly
with the appropriate thread so for this purpose I'm going to slide that in there
move that thread out of the way and then this just folds over the top of the gap in the
hook and you can see with this particular pattern the actual stripes
line up nicely it's actually folding over you can see on this side the amount
of rows it's folded over and so that it fits nice and snug it's ten beads in
from the edge and if you can line it up (i'm going to zoom in a bit so you can see this
easier) there we go refocus
so with my thread I'm going to go in to the side here that I'm going to be
anchoring in so that is through the bead on the bracelet here, then you kind of
have a zipping effect I'm going to go working back and forth along the two
pieces to bring them together so next I'm going to go through that bead on
the end there in place you can see where thread path is going at the moment so in
there across in there so now I need to go through the next bead on the bracelet
so it's really important as you do this that you make sure that you're working
the same row across this you'll be alternating as you go because you'll be
matching up with the beads on this side as well but you don't want to be jumping
back and forth along there, so then you go back then you can now start to see the
red thread there is connecting together - I find it easier to pull the thread up as
you go so that you can see that it's coming together you can do that at the
end as well if you're particularly struggling to see your row of beads so
your through the next one there, then across there
so you can see the stitches there as I've done them in red, so when you pull that tight
you can see that its zipped it all together and you can't really see the thread
at all there now and it's nicely tied in, keeping all the stripes the same
there so it looks really neat on both sides get the thread out of the way so
that's how you secure that and attach it so still got movement on there but it's
not flopping about and then you would fasten in your threads so I tend to go
back along and zip back so I'll go down the next bead and then you're kind of
sitting back on top of your row of beading it stops these little beads at
the side from flopping about as well and then you just weave in new threads as
you would normally in peyote stitch. So when it comes to attaching the hook we
actually hook it in this side will already be connected to one end of your
bracelet so you need to be able to create a loop on the other side that can
accommodate your hook now having done this and following the instructions and
I know that that's 24 rows in so the easiest way to do that is to count 12
beads on the edge there and then connect it at that point now fortunately for me
that also makes the pattern line up on this side as well so this actually
mirrors. So that laid on top of there actually fits in just neatly so again you'll do
the same where you're kind of zipping and I'm turning this round to do is much
easier I'm starting from one side so I'll go in there and across,
making sure I'm lining up with the right beads.
There we go, thats zipping together quite nicely
it's just back and forth, making sure your connecting to the right row of beads.
When you've got a pattern that's actually slightly easier to keep track
of and there we go so that's zipped together it just means it's created a
little loop at the end again you'd fasten off your threads appropriately so
going back down and zipping, zigzagging across just to show you how it all
works. When that's attached to the other end of your bracelet this and then just
hooks in and as you're wearing it that little curl there just stops that from
sliding out until you actually want to slide it out like so quite a useful
gadget! Quite often with bead weaving the hardest thing is finding neat ways to
finish off your bead weaving and incorporate a clasp so that's really
neat, nice way of doing that
so I'm going to attach one of the e-clasps to this peyote stitch beading now I just
have a look to see how well it will fit and the best way to do that is by
picking up Delicas on your beading needle and actually seeing how many fit
ideally in that slot you don't want them to be too snug and equally you don't
want them to be and sliding around very easily in there so that's ten beads that
fit inside there and this beading is 15 beads wide, and this is ten so it's going to
look slightly offset. However, this side of the clasp is much wider than
this side so I'm going to make sure that I set it in slightly more on this side
so the beading is filling across here rather than directly in the
centre. It will all make a bit more sense as I get going so to begin with I need
to get my thread into the right position to be able to start adding my beading
that's going to sit and wrap around this section of the clasp. So at the
moment my beading thread is coming directly out the corner here I need it
to actually coming out of this third bead here so I'll just weave it through
these beads, can I get diagonally through all three? Yes I can! Okay so I'm now in the right
position to be the cross and need to make sure that I'm beading to two in
from the side and three and from this side and the advantage of doing this
although my bracelets been made with odd count peyote stitch this section
that I'm adding at the end will actually be odd count, sorry even count, which
makes life a little bit easier soon as I get
to this bead here I can start building up my section that will fit through the
clasp. So I'm picking up a new bead and just going directly above here and that
will form the new section.
Now I've reached across this bit, I want to turn again
and continue adding rows here
so just going to continue adding beads at this part so I'll speed this up so
you don't have to painstakingly watch me do that incredibly slowly
so I've now beaded a section here long enough to be able to wrap around and sew
back down to keep the e -clasp in place and so I made this 16 rows long
and so this 8 beads on the edges there which is often the easier way to count
how many rows you've done and it needs to do an even number so then when this
rolls back down back I can easily zip this in between the beads here. So we
need to take the needle and the beading through the e-clasp making sure that it's
the right way round so we let the bigger gap because this side was bigger here so
I've matched that up again and then the beading thread through and fold round
and secures in place along here so easier to pick this up and turn it round
to do the beading, the actual zipping up so you can see here that the thread is
coming out here and you can line the beads up all in these columns here so the
beeping and the thread here is a little bit dark too and fully see so it's
exactly the same process I use at the beginning of the video and where you can
clearly see the thread pass with the red thread and you just zip across and
exactly the same way and again I always work back on myself which makes it extra
secure and then you weave in the threads as normal