How to Warp the Small Wisdom Warrior Loom

Jewels shows how to warp the small Wisdom Warrior Loom with great tips to help you .

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Transcript:

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tip on how to warp

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the small

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wisdom warrior

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here she is right here she's about 12

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inches long and

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just about three inches wide

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and you can

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bead on her on the top and then the

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bottom is just a solid

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nice base i do try to work on a surface

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always when i'm looming

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on something that doesn't

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skid so like a non-skid surface and if

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you wanted to add

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a bead mat or a big piece of um

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oh you know like felt or contact paper

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or something like that that would help

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the loom from sliding around if that is

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something that you needed help with

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but to warp the loom okay i just want to

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make sure here's our top right here okay

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and

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i'm only referring to it as the top just

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because the design

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lends itself to say hey this is the top

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but in all

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reality it wouldn't matter because

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the bottom could be the top and the top

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could be the bottom um i'm just working

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with it in this position so i will be

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calling it the top

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now my body is this way okay so my my

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body's over here

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and

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here is

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where i'm going to start

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so i have my wildfire

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and this is what i do whether i'm using

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wildfire or another beading thread or

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hemp cord or leather

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i like to start off by

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doing a little

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loop okay

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and then i'm just going to

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make like a little

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little

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loop with the

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beginnings of a knot there

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and i'm going to put that onto the back

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or the top button

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and i'm going to squeeze

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and then i'm going to

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take the other end and so i've made two

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little knots

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and wildfire is so um

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so awesome it's very very strong but

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i'll give it a third for giggles okay

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now

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if i

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am just working

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a portion of my loom

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like just say i'm gonna do a um let me

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bring one in hold on real quick don't go

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anywhere

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okay

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say i'm gonna do a seed bead pattern

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like i have right here with the chevron

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pattern

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that was inspired by

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our um

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kali dale over at off the beaded path

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such an awesome experience

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so say i was gonna do this on on the

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loom i would just center my warps in the

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middle there you don't have to go to the

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far

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left or the far right

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just if you're only going to you know do

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something like this what is this like 11

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across i think 11

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yeah i think there's 11 across just make

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your warps down the middle that will

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really help a lot okay so let me show

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you what i'm talking about

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so i'm going to grab the wildfire and by

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the way i am working on the spool

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okay i haven't cut a piece

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and when

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i

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work with the wildfire you kind of see

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how i'm just i want to get a nice grip

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i'm going to lay

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the thread right lay the wildfire down

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into one of the grooves

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and then i'm going to this is how i do

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it with my hands right so i'm just

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pulling i want to make sure it's really

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nice and taut

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and then i'm going to come all the way

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down here i'm going to line it up as

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best as i can i just kind of do like an

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eye

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by eyesight let's see so for the most

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part i'm pretty much following the sword

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um so i'm going to let that lay down i'm

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not going to worry about whether or not

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it's exact

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and then i really want to make sure that

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this is in the in the shot so i'm going

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to bring this up

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okay and now you see where my hand is in

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fact i want to come up a little bit

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a little bit higher here okay

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so you see where the um the bottom is

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right here right the bottom

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button and what i'm going to do is i

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wrap around once and i wrap around twice

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and so i do that because it will really

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help me keep the

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string the wildfire really nice and

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tight and it's so important when you're

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doing beading that your warp is always

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really nice and tight now i'm not going

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to skip any grooves

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because i think i'll set myself up to do

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another pattern

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and

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i'm going to let that fall in there now

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if i find that oopsie i just let it go

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no worries though because i wrapped

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around twice on that bottom button i

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think i'm good to go let's see

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yep

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good job there okay and then i'm gonna

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come back around now i only do that on

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the first one on the first warp it

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really just kind of helps

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to

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keep that first warp if you're gonna

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lose a warp typically it's the first one

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because that's where our hand gets like

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all weird and

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we're like trying to keep this you know

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keep the tension and then something

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happens and listen it's not a deal

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breaker if you were to come back over

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here and go around twice i don't want

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you to get in the habit though of like

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wasting any product that's not necessary

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i think if you just do it the first time

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on the first warp

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it'll be easy peasy so then i can if i

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have to readjust my hand you see how i

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put my

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pointer finger over the grooves and then

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i readjusted my hand my right hand

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okay and i got this little guy in here

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that's driving me crazy

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okay get him out of the way

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and yeah we're just gonna lay that down

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okay and then i'm gonna come back around

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and

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lay it down

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again

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and i'm holding the thread

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and again whether you were using

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wildfire or another beading material

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or um hemp

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you know this is what you would do i

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just got to make sure

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i got a little bit of a glare here am i

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in the right place

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i think i am so how many do i have

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one two so

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one two

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three four so i have five warps and i

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have four um little alley ways for me to

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put some beads in and you know i think

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i'll just do something small i think

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i'll just start on something thin like

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that that'll be fun

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so when i end i can do the same thing if

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i want right just kind of go around it

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one a couple more times and this is

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something that we do with the original

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jewel loom as well

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and of course i'm over here with nothing

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to cut with let's see if these work

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oh there thank you thank you bead gods

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okay

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so i'm going to just do that again

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and then the goal here is to get to a

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place where we we cannot it you know we

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can nod off right

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i'm not going to tell you there's a

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right or wrong way it's the way that

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works for you

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so let me see for giggles i'm going to

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kind of

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come up on it from the back side

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i'm going to grab this

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and then

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let me see if i can't get back in here

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i'm just trying to make knots

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you know i'm trying to secure

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trying to secure it so that i don't lose

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wow good warp

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really good warp okay

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so let's just um again

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i'm gonna try to get

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um i use the flat nose pliers a lot kind

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of like as my third

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my third hand

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oh this should be good right oh i feel

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it now awesome that really worked so now

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i feel comfortable where i could just

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like let go

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and i could make another knot

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and again i'm just

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wrapping that around

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perfect and then i pulled down i'm

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always pulling down so that you know i'm

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not letting any

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any tension

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now listen you know learning how to do

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your warps it takes

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time and you shouldn't feel discouraged

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um

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if it doesn't work the first round like

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that is so normal you it's a whole

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different thing that you're learning

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you're learning the tension you're

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learning how your hands relate to the

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loom which also relate to the beading

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thread it's a whole thing right it's

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you know it's almost like when you're

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making a recipe you know you you have

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this

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this knowledge this un

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unseen knowledge of how you can just do

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a pinch of salt right and what is that

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pinch well you know what it is right and

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it's perfect so it's kind of like that

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where you're just learning

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um the whole tension and how to hold

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everything how to work with your loom

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how to work with the spool of wildfire

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and just practice

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if you want you could always take

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fishing line you know get a spool of

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fishing line that's not as you know

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maybe expensive as the wildfire or

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another beading thread

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so that you don't waste and just play

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around

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and um you know get to get to know your

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loom and and your warps and you'll be

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making really gorgeous

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seed bead bracelets and and many many

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other things so i hope this helped you

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again always make sure to be on a

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non-skid surface um that contact paper

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seems to be

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uh hopefully i'm referring to that

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correctly it's the stuff we put in our

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cupboards in our doors right and so

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things won't slide around but um yeah

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just do that and i think you'll you'll

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be fine

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so i hope this helped okay have a a

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fabulous beady day

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