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Join two of Interweave's Top 5 Trendsetters, Designers Danielle Wickes & Nealay Patel, as Danielle shows us the simplest way to make a very colorful bracelet using the SilverSilk Jewel Loom and large seed beads. She shows us how to warp, weave and finish this bracelet using a few simple methods for a clean and professional finish. This project is great for leftover seed beads you may have or another fabulous excuse to shop for SilverSilk and beads!
Materials List:
The SilverSilk Loom
3ft SilverSilk Capture Chain
20mm Wooden button
1.5mm Leather Cord
1 Double-strand end cap
Beadalon Wildfire .006 beading thread and a beading needle
good evening everybody welcome to the silver silk and more channel uh my name
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is neela paton the owner designer and educator here at silver silk and more and i have got the fabulous i'm going to
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do an unveil ready danielle wix with me
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hi danielle thanks so much for um just hanging out with me this evening
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anytime it's always a pleasure i feel like we we've planned this class for a little while and
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some time passes we win awards i don't know i'm just saying and then um here we are
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i know time's going really fast it is just like speeding my eyes
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it is we were just talking um for everyone out there we were just talking about how i had a week and a half i feel like um
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with work-wise stuff not even the fun job of my day job and then i was just like these weeks man we gotta stop
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then danielle kindly reminded me that there's going to be another week next week so
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yeah there's always weeks in in our lives so in our on our calendars
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uh well how's everything going on on the john bead and and your
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personal creativity oh it's going great i've always got so many projects going so it's
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you know three things on the table at once um minimum and then you know
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planning for more it just keeps i hear again yeah absolutely
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that's good i'm glad i can understand i'm planning for several things myself for the end of the
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year um some stuff i haven't really solidified yet i've been talking to miss
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joan dice on the back end who's helping us today with our um
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our shares and also teresa and greta are in the house as well over on the silver
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silk silkies um facebook group but joan is going to be posting links and
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answering some questions and occasionally flashing some questions on screen if you guys have anything
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um so big shout out to joan and let's give her some some little golf claps for helping out
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with silverstone and teresa and greta too of course thank you ladies colleen is also in the house
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um who usually helps out on my youtube and i love colleen so much she's quite the treasure
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um and i just wanted to say hello to her as well so um what do we got today i gotta add
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this to this stream here because we got uh you really i feel like you always outdo yourself
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with the next project eventually i'll have to keep
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yeah well yeah i mean i don't know you bring always something special and so delightful to the table
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each and every single time and this week um or at least this class for silver silk and maura is no
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exception um you're just you're so creative and i love to see what you do with
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um you know coordinating silver silk tools whether it be the jewel loom or just um really just anything with silver
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silk in it so do you wanna talk through uh well
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i'll i'll shut up now so you can talk thank you so much um hey that's a huge compliment coming from
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you because every time i see one of your designs i'm like oh wow how do you think of that how do you think of all those things that you come up with and every
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time there's something i love the one you did last week was it last week that where you put the seed beads on the jump rings
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yeah it was last week or yeah it was last week that season time and its concept is it doesn't matter for
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me but yes yeah that was um that was a little like leather tie on at the end and just adding some jump rings with
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seed beads which actually those seed beads belong from the jjb kit that was yours
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oh they do oh wow that's so cool so i brought a little bit of your um
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your mind and design sense into my design too so we feed off each other's creativity
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yeah that that what's on the desk we'll get work with like i've noticed that if it's out and it's on my desk i might it's gonna get pulled in right
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there and i'll have to go digging in a box for it so exactly that was also a very appealing
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part of the whole process it was just right there and it coordinated so perfectly so
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oh i'm glad oh awesome so yeah um i got to meet um juliana at
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fest when i was there earlier in mid-august so was that like two weeks ago already
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yeah i know right i don't know it was sometime around the 17th 18th or so we were there and uh
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so i just got me thinking and she sent me these buttons these beautiful like little wooden oh wow
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oh my goodness juliana is another creative force to be reckoned with she's just such a great
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inventor of design concepts ideas tools and just such a
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great human being and spirit and together her and i had um
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and i would say mostly her birth this loom that was inspired from the silver silk
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chains and we just um came up with this entire new series
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of designs that we can do and then uh artists like yourself and designers um use it in such creative ways like the
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class that we're about to get into like this um that it just it's so mesmerizing
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i love it i think it's it's really cool that you can just throw the silver stuff on it capture chain it works pipe chain
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all of it and just start stitching and right into the medium like that that's just the coolest thing ever
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and that's literally all i did was i took some beautiful pearlesque capture chain
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and i had a couple different colors going i think this one was like a like a gold inside mm-hmm
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yeah that one looks like the fall chain and i think this one might have been that um that one is
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it's what i named fall because it kind of reminds me of seasonally yeah the fall
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kind of colors the golds and browns um and then you've woven these gorgeous
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beads that coordinate with it so well i just went to town just kind of coordinating the colors that were in the
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chain and in this pearlesque one has there's like little hints of green
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uh-huh that's um the tinsel so it it's weird how that tensile is because with
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any sort of aurora borealis finish there's always some hints of like greens and purples i
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feel like that kind of creep in there but i think that's what gives it its polish and it's sort of shimmer
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you make it look so good on camera i can never get it it's just like popping
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out of there i grabbed blue and i grabbed some green when i switched to this one because i
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thought that's just going to just be perfect and it came out so cool like you can see it
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shining in the light here so i'm going to look those colors really brought it out
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yeah and so yeah i thought i would just show you guys like and this is all kind of
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stuff i feel like in some way it's been done before all of these steps um but putting it all together it's
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really fun just to see and it's fast it's really fast to do and i've got this one ready to finish it's
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ready for its button um but i've got another one here to show starting it
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sweet all right let's just get into it and so all you'll really need is um
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we'll figure out your closure option first if you want to do it exactly how we did this one you'll need a button
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and then you'll need um one side of the finishing clasp so this
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is one of the three prongs i found that one to be a really nice fit for how wide i made the uh the loomed section
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but i think a two would also work you just pull it together more so you could even put like one on each
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side if you only had a single you could just do each end with one
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that would work but on this one like i was noticing it really worked with the three nicely
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yeah there's almost like a little um three millimeter three and a half millimeter gap um
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between the last two channels so it really does accommodate those seed beads pretty well
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yeah that came out really well so i was really happy with that i made my loop too big on my first one this was my
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prototype and so all i did was just stitch a little speed in there to make it smaller you could put some charms on that
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but i'm like a good idea yeah so it you can turn it turn a mistake into something amazing and on
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this one i think i've i've dialed it down to where like it's really going to fit the button true like
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without me having to do that so we'll see when it comes off okay by the way i've got got options there
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um and so that that's the let's see you'll need some pearlescent capture chain of
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your choice um the loom you know you'll need a clasp and a little bit of leather to finish uh your
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button if you wanted to do the button this way it's just one of many ways you can do it and then of course seed beads and thread
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and needles so let's see um all of my seed beads are size eight
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and i literally just grabbed all of my favorite colors off of the table earlier just i kind of went with some frosted
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rainbowy but the ones here are there's like a picasso sea foam and a map root beer
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with a light bronze and this one called limestone
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i listed all these colors out um i actually have this one as a mix in my shop so i listed all those guys out if
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you want to know what the db numbers are they're all miyuki ones you can uh snag those numbers if you like that mix
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perfect and then this is the wildfire i'm just using regular .006
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i love wildfire yeah me too it's i think i use it every single day like
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there's not a day where i don't use it for something yeah they well especially the fact that
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it also comes in a ton of different colors it just makes it so easy to bead weave with
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it does yeah it really does and then you'll just need a beading needle i've got a size 10 beading meal here
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but i think you could use you know like the jewelry needles those will work too i just like to work with them
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when i was kind of poking it through the capture chain i kind of liked i like using the harder needle and the
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shorter one okay good good tip i think that that's a
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good sturdy way to just sew it right through it worked for me but i think they'll
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they're all going to work you know and so let's see just set it up you
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don't need a much capture chain just um enough to run back and forth and leaving some space for your button
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and so what i did is i i kind of let it hang over about that much
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which is probably three inches or two and a half inches or so and it's more than i needed but it's just to give me something to maneuver
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when i'm attaching the clasp later you could maybe get away with making a little shorter if you want to save some
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of your chain and you know just kind of making it
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tight i love how it stays put once you've locked it in there like that it's really nice
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yeah the wood makes it um it's like soft enough and not as a
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abrasive of a material for a loom so that the chain can kind of stay
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its shape if that kind of makes any sense um some other types of blooms that are a
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harder metal or whatever might end up scarring some of the chain um knit
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or you know marring it or bending it out of shape but i've noticed that this loom really does accommodate nicely
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and you're able to just um pop it off the grooves pretty easily
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and the grooves channels were designed to fit the chains specifically too which
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is great she was and i say she but juliana worked with her designer to kind of
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figure out what that length was going to be for each between each groove
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but so it was just it was really genius the way that they made it happen
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i think it's amazing i'm just i'm always amazed by the inventiveness
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um jewelry designers aircraft you know our industry is
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just full of inventors right engineers right really yeah for sure i'm glad to
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do that so kind of kind of cool just to see what everyone comes up with too
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and i get to enjoy using them yes yes that's it that's setting it up super
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simple super easy and yeah that's a great tip a little extra oh i see he used them for earrings
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yeah that was uh nugget from joan there
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oh that's a great tip yeah that's because i do have a little i'll have probably maybe like that much left at the end
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so see i always save all my little pieces and so what i did here is i just kind of
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measured um i'll turn it this way but where i'm starting is going to be
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like right about let's see right about here i'm thinking so giving me room for my button right
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yeah i'm just going to grab some wildfire here it just needs to be vegan i wonder if um
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juliana since she's in over on the youtubes can list what the size of that button is uh or give us a millimeter
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um oh yeah i can give it to you in inches it looks like it's about one and a quarter inches
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oh perfect yeah so that's how much you'd go down maybe just a tad more um on that
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loop and that way you have enough to kind of slide it through yeah exactly that would be
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even better like more mathematically sounded weird
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for sure and knowing that i got it wrong the first time i tried it also noteworthy
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that's okay we all eyeball as artists who um i think i've just gotten into the habit of asking for measurements because
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everyone uh of my customers keep asking me for measurements
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because then you're not sitting there at the end trying to wing it you're like okay you set yourself up for
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an engineering task at the end well creative um
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creative problem solving i'm gonna use one of the um i know you
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like this colors oh my gosh i freaking love mustard it just goes with everything every season
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i don't care what anybody says i just love it
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so let's see this is about you said an inch and a half or yeah so i'm going to go with like
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i had my tape measure i set it aside somewhere so i'll just
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go with my old school way but i just went straight through the through the chain so here's let me show you a
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little close up what i did is this how you also do it you just kind of try to go toward the center
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yes yeah definitely i also um appreciate because i don't know if everyone does it
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if they work um from closest to them and up if that makes any sense instead of working from
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the top down from the top notice a lot of loomers they'll start up here and work right now themselves
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i can't do that i have to go from the bottom up i'm here i work from i work from here up but that's just i've always done it that
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way i don't know where it came from i must have been taught that way maybe or
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that was how whoever i watched on youtube do it the first time had their cameras [Laughter]
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well it's definitely um nice to see that i'm not the only one but also helpful i think um because it is easier
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i think to work that way yeah me too yeah and of course now that
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i have it formed doing it this way it's like i'm stuck that way
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and so for um i start my looms kind of differently than um a lot of folks will do some kind of securing
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to their side um warp but i i never do even on the other looming styles like when you're just
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doing you know a regular wildfire warps i i never not i wait till the end and
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then i just take this one and just weave it in same process if you add thread you just
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come along and start a new path just like we're about to do here
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and at the end you just have all these little ends to weave in and it's kind of it's a habit from a different uh kind of
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looming where you can pull your works in it just kind of comes from that
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but it also oh go ahead no no that's so i'm just saying it's also kind of quick you know to get
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started but it is loose that first time you're doing a stitch you've got loose thread hanging up
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um something that i don't i have these like miniature bead stoppers that i like to use for almost
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everything and that's been a little helpful to kind of keep it in place for the first few stitches and then you can
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always just remove it there too but i like what you're doing which is just adding a loose um
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woven bead yeah that's that's great i like the little those little mini um
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uh so that means you kind of start these the same way then if you're using the the stoppers i think you can have some
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of those somewhere i should try that i noticed joan was using them um i watched jones tutorial the other day
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and she was just really um beefing up on the tutorials lately i'm
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uh i'm very impressed with her style of working and just her way of instructions
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yeah she was using it to secure the beading wire um on if i remember correctly
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and it worked like a charm it was like on the other side of the loom had that little bead stop secure
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it's really cool um so what i did here is i just threw four beads on these are again these are
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size eight but you could use any size beads you want i feel like you could use sixes you could use 11's whatever you got
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but i just go ahead and try to eyeball a what's mostly like a straight line from there
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and then just go through the capture chain on that side
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and i think um hopefully it's been a bit easy to see where you are between
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the ball chain between the beads of the ball chain and maybe stitching through that um
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kind of more purposefully yeah that is a it's a good point i have
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i can see them sometimes i have to try a couple times before i get i get it to where i'm happy with once
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i've got one um one started then it's easier to get the next one
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the first one i always struggle with that but so i'm going to try looking for the ball chain like you said
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let's see [Music] on this one here
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so yeah i want to go just roughly right through there and i do i do try to circle around the actual ball chain itself when i come
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back through oh going through the
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really pretty brilliant
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and just being careful not to miss it but i'm trying to capture the
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actual center of the um the ball chain that's inside ah
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coming all the way back through yeah i like how you um you just basically use it as a cording that you can sew through uh in and out
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fairly easy it looks like yeah is that how is that how you do you
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do the stitching i couldn't remember from you've done a couple where you've sewn with the chain but i wasn't sure if you
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actually stitched through it or went around it i've done both actually um yeah
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and i think i approached it the same way that you're you're doing it now um with your sewing
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just kind of going through the chain and then for how much tension to use i'm
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trying not to use too much because i don't really want to indent it over there
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but i want the thread to be tight enough that you don't really see the thread if that makes any sense yeah for sure
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let's grab another color here and in fact um i know you're using a black it looks like a black thread but
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wildfire comes in a uh i believe a tan color or even a brown
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one yeah like i feel like the green or beige would be even better it'd be harder to
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see for for this demo but i do have um i feel like i have some floating around here
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but i could even show it next to it oh that'd be cool i had it and now it's
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walked away it was here um
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i might have actually put some right here here we go okay
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so this is green sorry this one oh yeah okay yeah green color you can
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see that would be hold it up a little bit that would disappear in the tinsel wouldn't it because utensil has a little
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bit of green in it i feel like it would yeah so you really can't go wrong green the beige should be gorgeous
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perfect but yeah so all i'm really doing here is
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just going through it and i'm trying to well my goal being to hide the thread as
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much as i can um not to put any um super pressure on the sides
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and then also keeping my lines as you know and so they don't buckle i'm trying to
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make sure that each one has space to move you can see it on a little bit on my first sample they do buckle a little
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bit like that so i found that on my second attempt
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making it have a little bit more space than i feel like it needs gave me a long
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look and so like it feels like there's too much space there just looking at it right now
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but that's what i did here and it looks a lot cleaner this one's still beautiful but
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definitely there's room for where i could have improved a little bit with getting it to kind of be flatter
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i still love that though i i think the buckling like it's so minimal already
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yeah you might have just some superior uh eye for details i think
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perfectionism yeah exactly but let me check it out like when you wear it you don't see that yes all
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people see is hey that's like the coolest bracelet when you never see anything like this in a store it's just like 100 unique and
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awesome and you made it um but yeah that's a really good tip on
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the spacing i i have um experienced that whenever i'm working on
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the loom too it's just to add a little bit more than what you think it would be and then
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it whenever all is said and done it does light a lot flatter yeah for sure
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and it's something that i didn't used to have to think about until i started using the capture chain because you know how on
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on just a thread like thread against thread you can slide it around
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but this one's kind of locked in place which is a win because now whatever i do here it's it's not going to change on me
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which is great yeah and it's not going to stretch like sometimes the thread does
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uh so we've got a question what do the numbers mean on seed bead size oh um they are well they're kind of like
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in the same way wire gauges they get smaller as the number gets higher
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so like an 11-0 um is smaller than an 8-0 for example
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and uh as far as like a millimeters i know a six millimeter bead is roughly equivalent to like
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uh sorry a 6-0 seed bead is roughly equivalent to about a four millimeter bead
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okay gotcha so yeah these would be pretty tiny
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yeah so i'm thinking are closer to like a two millimeter
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yeah that's what i would probably need or something like that i guess um and they're they're a little bit
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squished too so that's it's more like a one and a half by two millimeter ish
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sort of a size give or take um but you know i have found that the size eight seed beads are the most
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comfortable um to stitch with i used to be able to do 15 size 15 seed beads 15's
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yeah i mean are just like what like sand grain by that point right yeah
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those are so tiny i can't definitely have the roll in a design like if you're doing something beating
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yeah designs they're definitely they're indispensable but oh my gosh
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i mean yeah that's uh i think that's actually historically how i've used it too is just for like the end of um
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fringe or pico or something yeah i think the these days i appreciate when
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i don't have to really use them but it's the eight the size eight and the
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size six seed beads offer quick gratification it's a gratification for
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putting together a design fairly quickly i feel like that's you the size 8s are
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they still are small enough to look very intricate and beautiful but they're not going to take you as much time as 11's
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yeah less exactly you know over achievement mode when i start
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working with them but i make the exception for delicas because oh i love delicates
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it's been a while since i've worked with telicas but i feel like that day
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if i find the right project i think is really what it comes down to i had some ideas
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for making beaded beads for the capsule or burlesque chain i just haven't done it
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yet maybe one day oh i'd love to hear those ideas
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yeah some beaded beads um which i feel like would be right up your alley
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yeah count me in for that class you start getting faster i noticed that
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after you get going what's the thing about looming is it's like this
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um i think it was actually juliana that was saying it's meditative it's it's just really fun
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well and you're once you're past the part of setting up and you're just kind of like rolling the
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only thing you really got to pay attention to is a pattern here um i feel like but everything else is
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basically a repetition so for this pattern how does it work
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oh well i'm actually freestyling it but i could um if anyone would like me to send like a pdf over i meant to do it
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actually and it slipped my mind but to do a pdf of the ones that i've
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got here they're super easy basically all i do is i add a new bead
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so like i'll start with a solid of four and then i'll add one new bead at the
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bottom so string of three and one and then two and two and then just one and three and then a solid row of that new
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color and now from here i'm switching the order so it's gonna look like a little triangle but i'm just so clever
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super randomly you can also just make it like stripes if you repeat by adding new colors
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or you can make that triangle shape by either by accident i could listen up in this line or i love that i like the
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variation of different shapes and stuff um you could even do solids and like a block of color and then start
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with the triangle against it there's so many possibilities with this pattern exactly and i kind of like i've been
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challenging myself to introduce more randomness and that's kind of something i was doing here
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it's not totally random because you can see i couldn't help myself i still did a pack
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but it was mostly random yeah i love that thanks
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yeah so this is it this is um uh straight on until morning you just keep doing that until you have the link
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that you want um and then kind of trying to compute in my head a little bit like how much uh
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overlap are you going to need for the button to close about that but
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what i usually do is i will just add an inch for a button closure
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and so knowing that i like to wear my bracelets a little bit tighter
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yeah then making it kind of like maybe give yourself and
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end it maybe three quarters of an inch before you would otherwise um have stopped a
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bracelet knowing that it's going to come around and it's going to loop through and then you're going to have once
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something's on it's going to do this thing where it pulls so you're going to have that space right there
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gotcha okay that makes sense so what i did on this one over here is i
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just gave it about six and a quarter inches or so six
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and three quarters or six and a half i don't remember exactly the measurement but i kind of
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just compared another one to it i held the other one up to it and saw but it's going to be different
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depending on what length you're going for but once you've got it here
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um i i added what i think is going to be my last row
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and so all that's left to do is weave in our beginning and our end
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and then um finishing the end and that's pretty much it oh awesome um well let's see what's up
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um yeah let's do it i'm curious to see how the how you end it i took it off the loom but you could
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also weave it in while it's on the limb too i just did this so i could get into the sides of the beads a little bit
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and i did some of the um the same kind of weaving in that i would
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do on like a regular loom piece with the exception of i don't have warps running in here so what i did is i kind of went down to
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this next one down here i'm just jumping down from from there to
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there and then i'm just picking up the top work
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it's really hard to see but inside there you remember how we have we had a a strand running through the beads and
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then they come back and go through it again so there's two strands running through each of these right
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yeah yeah needle under the top one oh okay so you kind of pick them apart
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with your needle and then just run it through those two yeah and you'll know you've caught it
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because you'll see the little thread it's really hard to see but you'll see the little threads sitting on top of
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your needle there as you walk see that little and i'll do that maybe through two or three of them there's the
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next one down and then here's the next one down
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i can get that one and even with the black thread it's
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pretty well hidden yeah you really can't see it much but this really gives you a solid woven in
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i'll do this um two times i'll go through three maybe three rows right
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and then pull that down and try not to catch my other strands
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and so from here i'll jump over through all my beads and over here i'm just going to try to
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exit on top of my capture chain i can if i end up going through it go ahead
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and just go through it
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and turn and come down to the next row i see okay so yeah you go halfway in
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through the captur chain and you end up on the other side and then you just um go through the two
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threads that run between the top sides of the beads i guess
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yeah exactly and it's like like what i was doing here i couldn't quite exit from this row
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without getting through the capture chain so i didn't even really try i just did a turn and now i'm i'm working
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i'm in a position where i would go right through this row below it but instead of doing that i'm going to
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just do that same thing again i'm going to try to pick up my weft thread that's hiding
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in between the beads there and it's it's a little tricky to do and
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there's other ways you could even that's just kind of my go-to way
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there we got the first one and i got
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got the second there we go
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a little tighter weave on this side but looks like i got through it and i'm going to go through one more row beads and then just trim it
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better safe than sorry [Laughter] yeah so that's like you could do that
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one more time if you wanted to be extra extra sure that it made it but
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and there's that side then excellent i like ads and all i would do over here is the same
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thing just weaving that in and so this is the part that actually
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is hard for me putting these on i've watched a bunch of your videos though in prep for this moment
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and of course uh now you have an audience
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the tool magic really helped me and then i i think i got this tip from your video to
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um open it up first before you try to before you try to put it on is that
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right yes um i just do a little bit to help um help the chains fit in a little bit more
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easily into those channels yeah so just a little bit got it yeah
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that's perfect and so once again i'm just going to take a look at it and i'm measuring at the
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really really question right here but so i wanted to be like right there
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confidently trim
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and just kind of fold these in a little bit
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there we go brilliant look at that
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it's like you've been doing it forever [Laughter] i'm like cheering in my head right now
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like yeah [Music] yes it looks really good
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these findings are really cool you invented these right i did not um i've been working with a
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um a manufacturer one of my close vendors that i work with a lot and
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we've sort of helped improve them and also expand the color line but i can't really take credit for inventing
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unfortunately i just continue with the the good good stuff
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really just uh keeping it out there and um you know letting people
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have access to them and they're perfect they're they use them for their jewelry yeah thank you i'm
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glad to hear that this way it's just amazing
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i will say the antique copper and the antique um brass color within the same line didn't
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exist before so that was that's kind of a fun addition and um those colors definitely get used quite a
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bit with design so i'm glad that that was a pretty successful add-on
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i love them the um brushed copper is my favorite yeah i really love the brushed copper
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and it just is it's perfect for the more earthy
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tone designs that i sort of gravitate toward
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and so i've got some leather here i think this is about 1.5 millimeter i had to guess
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looks like i didn't label my spool [Laughter]
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yeah it looks like a it looks like a pretty um small on the smaller gauge i guess that
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one to two well it's probably not one millimeter because that's one i've seen the one millimeter so it has to be 1.5
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yeah i'm thinking it is because there is um yeah downstairs i just got a bunch of the one the smaller diameter ones i
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think it was one so this has got to be 1.5 it's a little bit on the smaller side
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but i could probably get away with even two millimeter leather with this button
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one thought i was having was um you could also it's a little tricky to get your capture chain through it but if you
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wanted to you could put the button on that side and then just do button loops i feel like that
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you know i think juliana did that with one of her pieces if i remember correctly it ended up really well
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oh so cool and she was able to make it work and go through pretty easily
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on all i really did was just overhand knots um you could do a really pretty barrel knot too they both work
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i feel like there's a lot of different ways you could do this this was just what i i was just playing and
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trying to give it some air if that makes sense when it clasps and um yeah i just
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brought it through it'd be fun to put some beads on the end
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i think so too i mean more is more exactly
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but i would love to see other ideas for how how do you guys finish your buttons with leather
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so i'm not a leather worker by you know by any by any means i just kind of play
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i might have to grab some size six seed beads and put those on the ends before i trim it but yeah
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that's pretty much it so stinking cute i love that i love these buns
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i also like it kind of has a nice like nostalgic vintage feel to it too and i think the button definitely adds that
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extra i don't know like to the color palette
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kind of reminds me of a little mandela or something i love this one and the sunshine one
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look at that it just gives me so much light [Laughter]
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so i definitely gotta finish uh i gotta finish this other one i've got a few other buttons and one when i finish it i'll post i think i'm gonna do all
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orange and yellow uh mustard for that i think that would be so so great it's
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definitely i wish like i could have gotten out my jewel loom and did that tonight too but
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um didn't get quite to my my supplies quite in time uh to be able to make that work but i feel inspired now just from
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looking at what you've done and um you know what's funny is that you were
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able to make two bracelets which you can do with the set of materials if you just purchase a
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or have a spool of the three foot capture or per less chain and then you
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get a set of class or a triple strand end caps because there's two per package you could easily get two bracelets out
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of that yep yeah exactly no it's perfect and i have so much left
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over too there's the um rest of my chain is here and i have just one of these packs right
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okay so this is at least another bracelet maybe more
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yeah yeah looks like you've got the six footer um i think packaging which is a lot of that's a lot
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of silver silk um to be making lots of these
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yeah yeah make a whole series about my fear of running out like no way
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and the tip from joan absolutely i'm going to save these ends because look this is an earring right here
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it really is like you fold it in half and you could put a little double strand end cap on and you got yourself a little
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airing on the fly yeah even that even even if i just put that on the end cap and put a charm or a
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gemstone bead super simple yeah do not throw away the
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scraps because i i have kept a lot of my scraps um just with and then
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i used them in my tutorials and stuff too just because i'm like well it's too good to throw away so but might as well
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just get creative with it so let's get some extra mileage of the silver stuff
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yeah it's so beautiful thank you well i
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love this project so much danielle this was such an incredible um
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exercise for this design let me flash the graphic one more time
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i saw another idea pop up there from is that from that's from joan right she's saying you can put one of those we did
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that beaded end cap that was one of the projects we did i think maybe the last slide
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yeah that would be cute that's a good idea yeah
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oh yeah i'm remembering now that's such a great idea that would have been a cute little like um
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beaded bead at the end or a beaded end cap i need to bring that back with this color though like with the mustard
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you know i would be all over that just the color mustard it just goes with
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everything i don't care what anybody says it goes with everything that turquoise is how i feel about it
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yeah and turquoise see if this had trick wasn't it yeah and like sold
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make me two [Laughter] i might need that turquoise pearlescent chain
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done and done you know actually i haven't made one but i was kind of
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toying with the idea the thing with the tinsel because i've
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had to sort of um really evaluate and audit my chain lines is that some it
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reacts better on some chains than it does other ones so for example
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i tried one time to make um the seafoam capture chain which is just a silver ball chain with the seafoam color wire
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on it um into a pearlescent chain and the silver from the ball chain
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drowns out the tinsel completely so it looks like just seafoam captor chain
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and i was just like kind of a sad production because it's not very it's not as sparkly as i was
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hoping um but i'm wondering what the gunmetal ball chain would do like if it would
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enhance it enough it's just it's a lot of weird chemistry
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stuff that happens on the back i can bore you with it all day oh yeah i know i would go crazy
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but i was thinking like the one of the what you said it drowned out the the chain but the tinsel would still
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hide thread so yeah that's true yeah yeah more so than
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the the capture chain would um because yeah there's nothing inside that so you could really see everything unless you
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used a coordinating thread but even even then you'd still be able to see some thread path i think um
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so the pearlescent chain is a great one to stitch on because there's a lot of meat inside of the actual sleeve
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of the knitted wires yeah looks so nicely it does look really like it makes it um like less bendy right
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yeah there's no um like what did you say earlier it was like the kinks that
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thread kind of makes if you pull too tight an indent um that seems to be a little bit more
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resistant to the indents and stuff it's like so perfect
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i love it so yeah [Laughter]
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i'm saying i'm ready for it cool
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well um i am so delighted that everyone out there can join in on our little class and some
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fun time i learned a few tips and tricks from danielle and i know you guys have and um it's always just such a delight
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daniel to be around and just such a calming like lovely spirit lovely human being
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[Laughter]
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these are really fun for me so i'm happy to be here awesome well i was gonna if joan wasn't
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gonna run away quickly could i bring you on let's bring john john are you there
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i'm gonna do it
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you're like nope i gotta go oh yeah there we go like can we just
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[Laughter] so cool oh the camera broke no
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i just love watching you danielle you gave me a lot of great ideas with that because i hadn't you
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know i i have been wrapping my um wildfire around the capture chain but
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because of the big beads i didn't even think about it be a lot easier with the seed beads because the big beads kind of
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get wonky you know but the little beads stay in line so that's so cool thank you i'm gonna
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now i'm gonna have to fit in time to make one i'm gonna write so many projects there's some
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you don't want to see around my laptop right now all the stuff around oh we're all there we've all got
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yeah i mean i had to really do some work to like i left something out that i was supposed
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to put away but um i i kind of just shoved it all behind the camera for now all of my
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my unfinished things so i get it
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well um thank you ladies for joining me this evening and i want to thank everyone out there i had such a great
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time learning from the miss fabulous danielle wicks and hanging out with her
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as well and we'll definitely bring her back if she wants to come back [Laughter]
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if you say yes it's a commitment i think yes
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we'll make it happen all righty well i will leave you guys to
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create for the evening and i will catch you at the next uh tutorial and or roundup that will happen i believe next
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tuesday so um i guess we'll just hug it out out there in the digital world
