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Welcome back to Beadaholique.com's Learn to Bead Video Series. In the past four videos we're learned all about
the types of beads available,
findings to go with those beads, stringing materials to link them together and the tools
needed to do so.
Now we are ready to start beading.
A bracelet is always a good first project. It's relatively quick and does not require a
lot of supplies.
To begin measure your wrist.
Do so by just taking a piece of string,
wrapping it around your wrist
until the two ends meet.
Hold that piece
and measure on a ruler.
The average wrist is about seven inches.
You can see mine is about six, yours might be seven or eight.
So that will give you a good indication of how much beading wire you're going to need
to cut.
Before you begin actually beading you may need to gather all your tools and supplies.
For this project that we going to do today, it's called the Summer Rose bracelet.
You can look on Beadaholique.com's website for the free instructions
under free beading projects. It'll actually have the detailed ingredient list as well as a step-by-step
instructions.
In our bead category we're gonna need coin pearls, they're name for their shape,
round beads,
bicone beads again they're named for their shape.
In the findings category we have a little bead caps.
We have a toggle clasp
and we have two crimped tubes.
We also have some stringing material. This is some beading wire in silver color.
Now I took my wrist measurement which was six inches and I
added about five inches to that measurement. I cut myself about eleven inches of stringing
material.
That way you'll have some to work with
and you're just gonna need three tools. You're going to need a bead stopper,
a flush cutter and
crimping pliers.
Let's begin beading.
Open up
your bead stopper
and place your beading wire into the stopper. It's gonna hold it tight now. Have a tail of
several inches.
We are going to begin
with our crimp tube.
We're not going to worry about putting a clasp on at this point.
We're just going to start stringing on beads. You can tell that they're just gonna stay on
that
bead stopper.
If you want you can lay out your beads ahead of time in a set pattern. Just lay them out
on the mat
and then you can bead them
according to lay out you have
or you can just start beading.
And you just
put some beads onto the beading wire.
We've got to the end of bracelet
and I just put on the last bead. Now I'm going to put on a crimp tube.
So i started my bracelet with a crimp tube so I'm going to end with a crimp tube.
Before I do anything else I'm just going to
visually check over my bracelet. I just make sure that my bead caps are all facing the
right direction. That my pattern is the same.
It's not too late to change it. Everything's still loose on here. You can take off the beads
if you made a mistake and just restring them.
So now what I want to do is I want to take one half of my toggle clasp
I want to put my
beading wire through the hole.
You can see it's now just sitting on top of the crimp tube.
Now I'm going to take
my end. This is why you cut extra beading wire. You didn't just cut it to the length of your
wrist.
Pull it through the crimp tube.
Actually what I want to do as well is I wanna pull it through
a couple beads
next to it as long. That's going to help to hide that that tail
once I crimp it.
So I'm not worried at this point that I have kind of loose on here.
I'm going to pull that up there
tight.
I'm going to take my
crimping pliers.
I'm going to hold it.
I'm just going insert it so it's resting in that notch which is closest to the handle.
Pull it so it's pretty tight so that the
clasp can still move.
I'm just going to squeeze down.
It's the first part of my crimp.
Now I'm just going to
rotate it
squeeze down.
You now I have a nice
finished crimp tube.
Now you can tell that my little tail came undone there which is fine.
I'm just going to thread it back.
Now I'm going to take my flush cutters
and make sure that I cut not the
beading wire which has all the beads on it but the little tail.
Just cut that right there.
So I have my
bar part of my toggle clasp secure. I'm just going to go to the other end now.
I've put this crimp on to begin. I'm just going to
take my other half of my clasp.
Go ahead to the same thing you did on the other side.
Loop that beading wire back through.
Go through a couple beads next to the crimp tube.
And on this one
you want to make sure you don't have a big gap
so I'm just going to carefully ease it down
and pull.
You want a little bit of give. You don't want to be so stiff that it
doesn't have any flexibility to it.
I just want to make sure that I have some movement.
Hold it up and you can pull it down.
Now I'm going to go ahead and crimp this end as well.
And I'm going to cut off that tail.
This is why you use a pair of flush cutters. You don't use
wire cutters you find at the hardware store. You're going to want to get a really nice precision type cut.
And there
you have a very simple bracelet
that you can enjoy.
So I hope you were inspired by this video to begin a beading project of your own or make this
Summer Rose Bracelet.
In the next video we are gonna talk all about necklace lengths. What each length is called
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