Hi there I'm Andrea the senior designer here at Beadaholique
in today's video I'm gonna show you how to do a brick stitch
to teach you brick stitch today
I'm gonna use three different colors a Miyuki
4 millimeter cube beads I've got
lovely brick red color a mustard yellow color
and
nice deep purple color and I've got a contrasting
green stopper bead. I've got black
wildfire thread in the point 016
size threaded onto my size
10 needle and the only reason I'm using black today is as usual to
be able to show you the thread path a little bit more
easily against the colors but normally you would use a similar colored thread
or crystal
colored thread so that you cannot see the thread like most bead stitches
first I'm gonna add a stopper bead leaving about
a six- to eight-inch tail you go through the stopper bead and then
you past through it one more time
and that will keep your beadwork on your thread
And now the base row for brick stitch is actually
a stitch that we have separate video for and it's called ladder stitch
so if you do not know ladder stitch already please review
this video before moving on to the second row
once you have your base row completed
what I like to do is
flip my work over to start work on the second row to do this
I'm gonna pick up the second color the yellow color I'm gonna pickup
two of these beads and I'm going to pass my needle
underneath the thread that is connecting
the last two beads of the base row
this should cause your beads to sit on top
of the base row you gonna go
back up through the first bead
of the second row down through the second bead
and now you're gonna pick up the thread between
the second to last and the third to last bead
in the base row you're gonna pass between those two beads and through
the thread connecting them you can go back
up through the second bead in the second row
pull tight now you're going to add
pick up one more bead
and then you're going to you
pass through the thread between
the next
two beads in the base row go back
up through that last bead that you added
add one more bead and you're going to continue in this manner until you have
the second row completed
you can flip your bead work again so you're always working in the same
direction basically
now as you can tell
think that most people would agree that it would be easy to do
decrease the stitch by
completing the next row the way that we did that row and that row
and it would gradually get smaller like a pyramid
so if that's what you want
then that is very easy to do but if it's not what you on
then what you're going to do is pick up
two beads of your third row and this time
you're going to go through
the last bead in the previous row
and also through
the thread between the
first two beads in your base row
you're gonna pull that tight and then go
up through the last
bead of the second row
up through the first bead
of the third row back
down through
the second bead of the third row and through
the thread between the first two beads
and the second row and then
back up through that second bead and that's how you begin
the third row and then from there on your gonna complete that row exactly how
you did the previous row
and then you're gonna do the fourth row how you did the second row and
so on and so forth now that you have come to the end of the third row
you've picked up your final bead of this row what you're going to do
is you're going to add the bead you can
put it into place if you like
but you need to go past your
needle down through the last
bead in the second row and this is the tricky part
you're going to pass it
underneath the thread
connecting the last two beads
of the base row and then
back up through the layers back up through
the last bead
of the second row
and the last bead of
the first row
to tighten that stitch up
you're gonna go back through those last two
beads of the last row once again
so as you can see your thread is coming out of
the second bead of the third row
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to pass it
between
the two last beads underneath that thread
go back through that same
path that you just made this method is slightly more complex than
from other ways of doing brick stitch but it insurers that there will be no
thread
sticking out on the side of your bead work which is
how some people prefer to
teach brick stitch this way all your thread work is completely hidden
and they have it that's basic brick stitch