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Hey there. In this video I'm going to show you how to make
these beaded
beads
using right angle weave.
So what you're going to need
is some four millimeter beads. I'm using some Swarovski bicones.
They come in packets of fifty. You're going to need about thirty of them so
it works out great.
You're going to need two needles. I'm using two big eye needles because and really like
the fact that you
can string it quite easily.
Need some beading thread and I'm using fire line in the smoke color
size B.
I've got my
trusty Thread Zap II.
Now this is
using right angle weave like I said but this is using the two needle method.
I'm going to
cut off about four feet.
I'll zap off four feet.
I'm going to thread each end
through one of my big eye needles
and how you use these I've explained this in other videos but I'm just gonna
show you again.
Going to open up my big eye needle,
insert one end through,
pull it down
and it'll stay there.
You do the same thing with
my other needle on the other end.
Now we can begin.
With my right needle
I'm going to pick up five
Swarovski bicones.
You can use any other kind of
four millimeter bead you'd like.
Here I've used some czech glass druks.
Here you can use
fire polish.
I'm going to bring those five
Swarovski's down to the center of
my thread.
I'm going to take the left
hand needle now.
I'm going to go back going the opposite direction through that last bead that I
added.
I'm going to grab both of my needles and make sure that this loop
ends up right in the middle
of my thread
like so and you've created a little circle.
One unit
if you will.
So I'm gonna meet make another adjacent unit.
This bead, were my thread is coming out of,
that is going to be the first bead in that unit. So I'm only going to need four
additional beads.
I'm going to pick them up with my right hand needle. One
two
three, four
and once again that last bead that I added take my left needle
go through criss-cross going the other direction
I'm going to pull.
Now I have to adjacent units.
I'm going to take my left needle
I'm going to thread it through the next
bead
the closest bead to the left.
So now as you can see
I'm making units of five.
This first unit is the central unit. I'm going to build
rows of five or units of five all the way around that central unit.
Now that I have may thread coming out of this bead and this bead
I have two beads in this next unit.
So if I want a unit of five I only need to pick up
three more beads.
As always
take your left needle and criss-cross
and pull tight.
Once again
left needle
left bead
always on the outside perimeter
pull tight and now I only need
three more beads.
One
two, three
criss-cross on that last one
using your left needle
going back the opposite direction.
And again
going to go through the next bead to the left with my left needle.
You can kind of see a pattern being formed. That is the central unit and there are
so far three units
surrounding it.
So I'm building
the fifth unit by picking up three additional beads
and going back through the opposite direction with my left needle on the
last bead.
When you pull tight right now you can kind of see that
a half dome shape is appearing.
So this is my last
unit that I'm adding on the top half of my sphere.
Instead of just going through one and I'm going through two to the left. So I'm taking my left
needle
going through the bead directly to the left
and then directly to the left again
on the outside perimeter.
Now as you can see
I have three beads
and I want to create one more unit of five so I need
two more beads.
One. Two.
As always
left needle goes back through
that last bead
and pull tight.
Look. You already have
half of your sphere done.
So now how do we build onto this?
Well
just like we've been doing
we're going to go
one bead to the left with your left needle.
Pull tight. Since there are two beads there
pick up three
'cause we're making units of
five beads.
Cross back through with your left needle on the last bead.
Left needle
goes through
not only
the bead directly to the left
but the one directly to the left of that as well.
Since we need to build another unit
of five this time we already have three going on
we need two more.
Criss-cross with the left needle
through the last the bead.
Left needle
goes through
one bead to the left
and to beads to the left.
Once again
we have three beads in this unit.
Pick up two more
with your right.
Criss-cross on the last one with the left.
Again
go through one bead to the left
and a second bead to the left.
We have three beads there and we need to pick up two.
Go back through
the last one
with your left needle
pull tight. This is almost done.
This is going to be our last round.
As you can see we have
one, two, three, four beads.
So instead of just going
one to the left or two
this time we're gonna go three with your left needle
to the beads to the left.
All we need
since we have four is
you guessed it
one
and that makes five.
One last time
criss cross back through
pull tight
Yay!
As you noticed this very last round up here
doesn't have thread around it
and your thread is going in two different directions.
You what your thread to meet up so you can tie a knot and you can
tighten your sphere.
So I'm going to
take my right hand
needle I'm going to go through this last round here
until it meets backup
with my left thread.
If your sphere doesn't feel too
stiff at this point
this is the part
that will
solve that because you're gonna tie
a square knot
or a surgeons knot.
Tie once.
You can feel it right when you do that first knot that this is
turning into a nice solid structure.
And I'm going to tie another over hand knot.
All you have to do now
is weave in the rest of your thread.
So as long as you're going around those units a five you can go
where you want.
You can even tie a couple more knots
and weave in some more.
I think that's good for right now so I'm gonna
cut my right turned off.
Weave the rest of my left
thread through
and I'm done.
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