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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you
how to do brick stitch with a half Tila Bead
this would also work with a super-duo brick. I just
I'm going to show you on an half Tila so you can see how to do
this project which is the Silver Wave
bracelet and the instructions are on our website. So obviously
I'm going to be using a big fat black thread
so that you can see my thread but this
stitch is going to look better if you use a thinner thread like a fire line
so that you don't see your thread because it does have thread bridges running
between the rows. So in order to do brick stitch
with these two hole beads you need to already know how to do brick stitch
traditionally. So if you don't know how to do brick stitch
I recommend not only watching that video but learning how to do it first
this is a little bit more of an advanced technique so it is going to be
extremely helpful if you know
how to do regular brick stitch
doing brick stitch with these beads you're going to treat
each hole as a new bead
just like with the regular brick stitch I'm going to start with ladder stitch
and I'm going to treat every hole like a new bead
so I'm going to start by going right around through the single bead
back down
and pick up a new bead
and I'm going to do a piece that's three beads wide
through the next hole just like it's a new bead
pick up my third bead
and don't forget to go ahead and go all the way through to the end hole
because you will need that thread bridge
to build off of
weave back through to stabilize that
now we're ready to start the brick stitch. As you know
brick stitch is going to move
back and forth a little bit. So right here
on our bracelet you can see that I take advantage of that fact
and I move in one direction for a few rows and then I changed direction
so in this particular bracelet I've moved five rows
I did my row of ladder stitch, then four rows of brick stitch for five rows
in one direction and then I added four rows
in a new direction, change direction, four rows
change direction, four rows. So if you wanna do this pattern
thats how I achieved that. So just like when you start
a row of regular brick, you pick up two beads
you're going to pick up one bead but you're going to use both holes
so pick up your bead and go
through one hole and then back down through the second hole. Then you're going
to go through your first thread bridge which is between the two holes of that first bead
and then go back up through
your second hole, pull that snug
you can see it jogs out to the right
pick up another bead and go through
the next thread bridge
back up through the bead just like you used to
and now that next hole is like a new bead
go down through, catch the next thread bridge
and back up to the hole
now add a last bead
third bead, through the next thread bridge
and then on the second hole I'm gonna go through that last thread bridge on there
so that's your first row of brick stitch on top of the ladder
when you flip it over, instead of moving
back the other way right away, you want to continue in that direction
so whereas usually if you want to move forward in that way
you would pick up your beads, your two beads
and then skip the first thread bridge, go through the second
I'm gonna go up through and back down through both holes and then
just like you would, skip the first thread bridge, go through the second
and now
generally in brick stitch you would need to go back around these
to snug them up and have them sit tight. This one's gonna sit fine because it's
connected. So I'm just going to go on
just like in a standard brick stitch, your last
bead, so your last hole is going to actually just go through the hole
below instead of on a bridge and then go
back up through here. Now
usually in brick stitch you'd go through the third hole, back down the second and out
through the end
on this one if you're using a nice thin thread because it's just one bead over
you can just go ahead and cheat and go through that last hole
that's what I did on this one, it's worked out fine. So your just gonna
continue
like that. I've shown you how to have your row go
to the right and how to have your row go to the left. So continue
alternating back and forth to continue in one direction and then just switch to
the other direction when you're ready to change direction
and that's how you do brick stitch with a half Tila bead.
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