Hi this Megan with Beadaholique.com and I'm going to show you How to Bead Weave a
basic
Beaded Bezel
onto a Swarovski rivoli
and this an
embellished beaded bezel on this necklace here
and I'm gonna show you how to embellish
your bezel and in another video. In this video
we're gonna learn how to do just the basic bezel
so that you can use to mount
the rivoli
what you're going to need
is
a rivoli. I'm using a sixteen millimeter
Swarovski crystal rivoli in just crystal
it's pretty the way that it
picks up the colors of the beads the plain crystal color
and then you're going to need
seed beads in two different sizes
I'm using 11/0s and 15/0s
and I'm using two colors of the smaller size
then you're going to need
some beading thread. I'm using fireline in the .006inch
size
I'm using
size twelve beading needle
and then you'll need to add
scissors and a Thread Zapper is really handy for
cutting thread
so go ahead and start by threading your needle with
a length of the fireline about as much as you can
deal with comfortably. I like to work with about six feet at a time
now what we're gonna do to start the bezel is we're going to
do this in a even count tubular peyote stitch
you'll need as many
of the larger beads around as it takes to fit around your rivoli
so for the sixteen millimeter and the size 11/0 toho seed beads
it's thirty six beads around but you can experiment if you're using
a different
size
go ahead and put
thirty six seed beads
on your needle
I put on 36 seed beads and
pulled down
to the end
and you want to leave yourself a six to eight inch tail
you can go back and
weave the thread in later
go back through your first bead
and make
a little loop
and you can see
that the loop
when you tighten it should be
about the right size to lay your rivoli
right inside
and now I'm going to
this is actually rows one and two. The way that it works with
the tubular peyote stitch
it'll get offset when you weave in. So we're gonna start row three by
getting one bead
skipping the next bead
on the string and going
into the third
and then
pop that up. It will lay
if you let it so you want to go ahead and start making it more like a tube
and you just work the whole row by
picking up a bead
skipping the next bead and going through the one after it
and when you get ready to put in
the last bead
you go in
and up
also through the next bead
and that will take you up to do the next row
you can tighten this up a little bit to make sure everything's laying
nice and flat
too
once you get it on the rivoli it'll also be
easier to tighten it
now you have
three rows
of the tubular peyote
with the 11/0 and now we're going to do two rows
with the 15/0
and it's going to be
smaller because of the smaller size it's gonna pull it in a little bit
so you're gonna do exactly the same thing
but you're gonna put
15/0 bead in between each
of the bead from the last row
and again
on that last bead
go through two
to come up into the next row
now that you have
the row of smaller seed beads
you can see when you
pull that tight
it's gonna start create a little bit of a lip
then you're going to do one more row of
the size 15/0 beads
on this side
to help bring that in a little bit further
to give the back of your bezel a nice
strong
foundation
and on this row when you
put your last bead in
instead of going back up
to make another row that way were going to work to the other side
so that we can make a row on the other edge so go ahead and go through
the next bead and then go right in a line diagonally
to come out through one of the beads that's in the
first there
pull nice and tight
push in
your rows of 15/0 beads
and pull tight
at this point we're going to set our rivoli
into
our bezel
the shape will
stay nicer once we're all done with the rest too
if it wiggles around a little bit
don't worry about it too much at this point
just make sure that your stitches are eight
go through and
tighten them up
now we're going to do arrow of
15/0s
on this side
and make sure that you hold your rivoli in place as you work
keep your
tail out of your way too so it doesn't get tangled up in there
so you're going to do two rows of the 15/0s on this side
just like you did on the other side. Pull them nice and tight
and when you're done with your two rows of 15/0s
go right up
into the next row
and pull that really tight
be gentles so you don't snap your thread
pull your thread tight
and then you can kind of
get it evened out a little bit
then you're just going to go through and add
one more rows of 15/0s to the front
it will help secure it and
it adds a really pretty
decorative touch
and you go back through
for the last bead
pull nice
and snug
then you're just going to tie off your threads and weave in the ends
we have a video on how to do that if you're not sure how to do that
and that is your Basic Beaded Bezel
and you can
bead weave
onto that
to embellish it
I'm going to do another video that shows you how to do an embellishment like this
with this kind of starburst
decoration
where you can leave it plain but it's a really pretty way to connect
your rivolis
together or onto a piece of jewelry