Hi! This Megan with Beadaholique.com and
I'm going to show you
how to attach one of these new
TierraCast ribbon ends findings
to a piece of peyote stitch bead weaving
these are really handy and you can use them with ribbon
such as the name would suggest
you could use them with
leather, faux leather
but I want to use them with
bead weaving. So I've got a
piece of even count peyote and I've used size 11/0 delicas
and I have
ten beads wide
I basically just
held it up when I was stringing it to see how many beads would fit across the opening
and what I'm going to do
to attach this and make a really cool and different way to attach my clasp
to finish my bead weaving
I'm just going to
when I finish my length
on the weaving
I'm going to weave my thread and my needle attached. Tied it off
and just pull its through the wider loop
now with peyote stitch
you have
I a high bead and a low bead alternating
and you also have
this little
layered brick
pattern happening in the rest of it. So what you can do is actually fit
this last row
into the recesses where the beads meet here
so when you have two ends of peyote stitch that you can
zip up like that. We're kind of going to do
something similar
but we're going to
fit it into the ridges between the rows
overlap a little bit you can
see if you do it
right here it's going to be kind of snug
or you can do it
more loosely, depends on
preference where you want it to be. I'm going to overlap it about a quarter of an inch
maybe just slightly more
and then you're going to go
into the bead weaving and
what you want to do is you want to
line up your first high bead between
two beads in that same row it's in
and then you're going to go
into
the bead next to that
you basically
just going to do the same thing you do when you zip up
two connecting pieces. Go through
a bead in the longer piece and then through the end bead. Through a bead in the back
bead piece through an end bead
and just match them right up and you wanna make sure
that you're going through
the same row
on the back piece, the whole way across to keep the seam straight
and you'll be able to tell how it fits in there
don't worry about pulling it too tight right now, you can
get the thread through where it's trying to go and then pull it snug
finish off
with the last
bead on the end piece and then pull that tight
and it's not going to be a seamless connection
like it would be when you zip the ends of peyote together
but it is going to fit right in there and
be a secure connection and all you do then is just tie off and
weave in your thread
like you do with any bead weaving. You could see on the front side now you have this
really nice clean way to end your weaving and you can just use a jump ring
and attach a clasp a right to the ribbon end. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!