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Hi this Megan with Beadaholique.com and I'm going to show you
how to Attach a Button and Loop
Clasp to a Bead woven bracelet
so
I'm going to use a beaded bead
that I made for my button. You can also use a shank button
we have a video on how to do right angle
beaded bead. So
you can watch that video if you want to use
a bead like this
if you
are going to use
to the beaded bead go ahead and when you finish up and you tie
the knot at the end, don't trim
your tail threads
and you want to go ahead and give yourself a longer tail to start with so
that you have a nice long length of thread
on both ends. Now I'm going to attach this to a strip of peyote that I made
just to
show how to do it
it might be very slightly different
depending on what stitch you're using
based on what the edging looks like. So this is peyote
for reference.
The first thing I want to do is
add
a bead or two
onto both strands coming out of the bead
if you're going to use a shank button then you can
just take your thread through the shank button and then add the beads onto the two threads
that come down from there
I'm only using
one needle for this so you can switch them back-and-forth or if you using a sturdy thread
like wild fire you can usually get it through a couple of beads pretty easily
and not have to put a needle on for that
and pull
that down.
It's gonna do two things, one it's going to bring your threads together and
two its gonna space
the bead out a little bit from
the project. So you could go one, two, three how ever many you want, how out far
you want to space it
So I just put a couple on there for right now
then i'm going to put
another bead on
just one side
and i'm going to go through
you can where you want
you're button or you're bad
I'm going to put one on the end here and you can put them in the middle, you can put two on
the ends
I'm going to show you on the end. Let's say we're going to put one here and one here
bring that one through there
and then weave into
your piece
careful not to catch the other side
and go ahead and
weave in
enough that you feel that you're giving yourself a nice stable foundation for this
It''s going to get pulled on so you wanna make sure that it's strong
and then you're just gonna tie off and
weave in
your end
on there
and we do have a video on how to do that, how to tie off
and weave in your ends. It's called
How to Tie Off and Add New Thread in Bead Weaving
do the first part and don't add any thread
then you're going to put a needle on your second strand
grab one bead
on that strand
and again
go into the other side there
then you're going to
weave in this side as well and again you wanna make it nice and strong
then you will tied off and weave it in
as well
so you can see
with peyote and I'm using a smaller bead attach it, then I did to weave it, it sits very nicely
between
these beads in this top row here
so if you're going to add this to another weave you just need to kind of experiment and
see
how it sits best
how many beads you wanna add to
your connecting piece
that's how you add on the ball
to attach the loop
on the other end of your strip
go ahead and
cut yourself another length of thread
and I'm going to have
the loop,
you can either go
around a single bead sticking up or you can come out of
the little ditch, it really depends
if your
weaving
is symmetrical or if it's
ended on a different row
right now what's going to be directly across from my button
is another spot in the weave where it goes in
so I'm going to need to attach it there
so what I'm gonna do is to start I'm going to weave
up through
the last few rows
leave yourself a tail
that you can weave that in
and now I'm going to string some beads and
I'm going to string a few and then check the length and then
keep working
until i find the right length
you want to be able to make a loop that is gonna hold tightly but
still going to be able to go
somewhat easily around
your button or your bead because
you don't want it to fall off but you also don't want it to be really hard to get it on and
off especially if you're using a woven bead like that
it'll put a lot of stress on it
if it's too tight
so once you have some beads you can
hold it in a loop
check it out and see what you think about the size and it should
fit around your bead
this one looks like it's actually
plenty big already eddy I'm going to go ahead and take a couple of beads off
and try it that way
if you're doing multiple
clasps along the edge
it's really easy if you
got it for one so it'll be the same
so now here you could go through
the beads that stand up
and make a nice loop like that. That's
a complete circle or
what I'm gonna do in this case to have it line up better with my bed is
just go
through the next
one there and it's gonna
make more of a
loop instead of a circle
you can do it either way
go ahead and
put it through and then try it. You still might need to make some adjustments to make sure
it's gonna fit
I want to get the idea of whether it's the right size
go ahead and hold your thread
try it out
this is still
a little bit big
It is just a matter of
getting the right
size
I took off a couple of beads
and again when you're weaving in
your ends
for this you wanna make sure that you weave them in
nice and strong. If you can loop them around to meet up and tie a square not
between your ends that will make them
really sturdy
your clasp is
obviously going to have stress on it so you want to make sure that
you're making it as secure as possible
I'm just going to
bring it back around so that they are meeting
tie a knot
and then of course
weave in those ends
you can see I now have my loop on the side and lined up on that side
I have my beaded bead button
or whatever you want to put
and that's gonna hold that nicely
and have really pretty look
that's how you're going to
a Attach a Button and Loop Clasp to Your Beadweaving