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Hi. In this video I'm going to show you how to tie off and add on more thread when
bead weaving.
Here I have a square stitch bracelet that I've begun.
But I don't quite have enough thread to complete it.
So what I need to do is I need to
tie off my tread that I'm working with
or my working thread you can call it
and weave it into
the beginning of the bracelet that I have here
and then I'm going to add more thread on and I'll show you how to do both of
those.
Don't wait until it's too short.
I would give
yourself a good
at least
six to eight inches. This is a lot more than that but
I'll show you using this much.
What you want to do is you want to
thread your needle
underneath
some thread that is connecting the nearest two beads.
Then tie an overhand knot around it. So what that means is I have my loop. I'm just going to go
through it once
and tie.
Just to be on the secure side I'm going to do one more of those or if you want you
can go around a needle
twice
and pull tight.
That's gonna be a pretty secure knot but you don't want that unsightly thing
hanging out there, so
I'm just gonna take my needle and start working my way
through the beadwork and I'm going to back and forth.
Depending on what kind of
pattern I'm doing or kind of beadwork I'm doing.
Sometimes I like to tie it off again.
So down a little I'll do another little knot
and then continue to weave in
the remainder
of your thread.
Now once you have woven down through your pattern just
a bit,
I still have some leftover thread but that's okay,
then you can either use your scissors
or
a thread zapper
to trim off
the access thread.
So now what I"m going to do
is I'm going to remove excess thread and you can toss that 'cause there's not much
left.
I'm going to cut off another length
of fresh thread.
I like to work with a lot because I don't really care for tying off and
adding on.
So I'll use probably about three yards atleast.
So now that I have my new length of working thread
on my needle.
I'm going to tie it
into the bead work that I have going here.
What I like to do
is once again I'll pick a spot somewhere down from the very end of where I'm
working.
I'm going to pull my thread almost alway through
and I just going to make a
surgeons knot and we have another video that describes exactly what that is.
Then I'm simply going to weave
through my beadwork
until I get to
where I was working from
originally.
Now ideally you'd like to come out exactly where your thread was coming
out but in the case of square stitch as you can see I'm coming out of a red bead
whereas before I was coming out of this bead.
It doesn't really matter as much a square stitch.
So now I'm ready to weave on some more and I just have this little tail here
and since these holes are so large in these beads. I can pretty much not
add a needle and
just weave in the tail.
If you do need to you can also
thread that end through a needle and weave the rest in.
Just cut off any excess thread you have
on that tail.
And you're all set to go.
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