Let’s mix things up a bit! Joan is using SilverSilk Capture Chain & beading wire as warps. She weaves some 2 hole & fire polish beads to make this beautiful cuff, besides showing how to use a slide connector. Plus she shows a different way to add more thread when weaving.
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Items Used:
Beading Wire SilverSilk Capture Chain (can use Pearlesque Chain also) Wildfire 6mm Tile Beads 6mm Fire Polish Beads 3mm Fire Polish Beads Slide Connectors 11/0 seed beads SilverSilk Jewel Loom
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Transcript:
hi i'm jung dice and i'm the jewel loom school concierge besides being um like a
background assistant social media um um for jules juliana jules avalar and also
for um the silver silk so um social media ambassador
so this is so i just found this so cool when um this came out because it's kind
of like um you know emerge between my two um favorite people
and um so um julie um jules came out with this um to use silver silk on and
the grooves in it is bigger to hold the silver silk and then also you can even use thicker
cords on the back side so i imagine like you can also put in um
leather into um hollow mesh and also
you can maybe even fill some beads with holo mesh and put it on the loom here with the thicker side so if you want to
straight string some more beads between them so it's pretty good and you can even make a longer bracelet
or even a necklace by wrapping all the way around so i just wanted to show you um
a necklace that i got inspired by this one it's one we made in
the jewel loom school monthly workshop
and i was really inspired by it so i tried it by putting a similar version between
silver silk so that's what i'm going to show you today now last um
recently trish did a project with soft flex and i got
really excited for about it so instead of using s-lon for the warps where i did in this
one i'm gonna use soft flex and the soft flex i'm using is the
champagne extreme flex wire i was gonna use um
some of the blue i got a trio of blues um about a week and a half ago in the mail
right before i got went on vacation and i misplaced it
and so i arranged all this and that's when i found found it because i was gonna make it in blues so um i'm hoping
that this will show up as looking like grout between the tiles
um you know that's how um the original design for this one jules put
um used um hemp in between to make it look like grout
but i changed it to s on something just kept telling me to try that because she teaches us to make it our own she shows
us the techniques and her designs but then we change it up to make it our own
and the other thing i'm going to be using is [Music] oh i lost a little bag for it
it's some capture chain i think i believe it's called is it shimmering copper i had the bag
right here and um well actually it's a copper that has
some dark chain in it so since i couldn't find my tan wildfire
i'm using some black because it'll blend in with the chain and you know the ball chain in the um
in the capture chain so then i'll show you my design which is
really similar to um this design you know just different colors
and so let me go down to my workstation now hold on okay the beads i'm using are laid out
here i mean it's kind of sloppy because of me moving it around but i'm using
six millimeter tile beads three millimeter fire polished beads
and six millimeter fire polished beads i like the fire polished beads because they are usually pretty uniform with the
tile beads and um i like mixing them up because it gives you a lot of texture
you can find most of these beads on jewelry.com
i do have some extras in that was left over from previous workshops so too
and just some of the there are some three miller meter fire polish i got from my own stash too that's been in
there forever so and then i did find it it is shimmering
copper for the um for the silver silk
i don't know if i can put that under the name but shimmering copper i have all the links in the um
in the video under description
and just to let you know i like using
the big eye needle because when i make mistakes i just find it easier to thread an end thread since
the you know the needle is still white wider than the project
okay so there's a couple things i want to do first
um i like using the the um
bead stopper for the ends of the silver so i mean for the um
soft flex because when i tied it i couldn't get it tight enough on here only because i was afraid of breaking
the wood so i found if i use the bead stopper at the end it worked out really well because i'm
only using two strands of the soft flex
so this is so to show you how to string it
i take an end of the silver silk it doesn't matter which groove you put it in we're only going to be using four
trying to find the video sorry i'm not used to doing this but i place one at one of the end
grooves and put it in the groove under above it
and then i go across to that groove that's directly across them and put it in the next one and i
skip i skip the next two grooves because that's what i'm going to use for the
soft flex because these grooves are about six millimeters apart too and so that's
perfect for my beads that i'm using today
oh i turned off my silver sock i have enough hair left for a bracelet
or even part of a necklace and now i'm going to use my soft flex
i hope they still carry this color wire i i found it in my stash
you know looking at all the um different soft flexes i have in my stash to see what would go good with this
collar and i really like this so i did the same for the soft flex
you'll see it'll sit a little bit lower
let me show you the end what i'm going to do now now for the ends just to make it tight
i'm just using the bead stopper there and pushing it again up against it
okay and so it's it's let me tighten it a little more
okay now just to let you know that the soft flex does sit a little bit lower than the um
the but you know we'll correct that when we take it off it might be a little bit longer now i have a seven and
three fourths inch wrist and i measured trying to figure out what i'm gonna use for the ends and things
and i think i came out to six and a quarter to make the beaded section
so um this is eight and a half so i'm going to take
start about one inch from the end for beading
so just a little bit under oh since i have this backwards let me do
so about a quarter inch under the jewelry name
oops i forgot to trim my soft flex
okay now i usually take about two yards of the um
wildfire or fireline whichever you choose to use
so that's like stretching my arms way out while pulling that
i got these special scissors at my local bead store that it's great for um
wildfire or fireline so i use it only for those
okay now if you're using a jewelry needle
just um do it as you normally would thread it as
so i'm gonna string my tie my um thread
to the sock to the silver silk
i like leaving some so when i'm done i can kind of thread the ends into the beads too just so you know it just
protects my knot a little bit more
i may have to turn my board around so you can see
this is our first time i'm doing a beating video on my own so please be patient with me
now if you run you know if you're worried about running out of thread i'm going to teach you a trick
about adding on thread that i've learned you know when i run out of thread i'll teach it to you
um then i learned from gail deluca who owns the local bead shop
white fox beads here and she taught it during bead weaving and i use it in looming also
because that's what we should do figure out ways we can use some techniques in with
others it makes our lives a lot easier and you might come up with some interesting
and i'm gonna push this thread out of the way
so in this one i i start with three i mean
six throughout three millimeter fire polish
so it's really interesting um using different size beads
when you're using them on the loom you want to make sure that they all equal going between the warps
in this case we're using the six millimeter fire polish in this um six
millimeter tiles um do uh work together
but um i had when i went to the smaller beads i had to use three millimeter tiles um fire polish sorry about that
so i could so it they would um i could fit two between each warp so it would
equal you know one of the other beads so when you're mixing beads keep that in mind when you you know you when you're
putting between warps look at what i did i got one too many
i'm always told this is a no-no when doing it in bead weaving but
i don't always follow the rules
okay and the first row is usually harder and to be honest with you i like locking
it in place so i go through i go i do the um under and over
twice so i went under with the beads and fit them in between the warps
now i'm going over the warps with while going through the beads so my
needle is going over the warps
because of the thickness of the wildfire we're going to be playing with this but we'll smooth it out when we take it off the um
off the um loom too so it might look a little wonky so now i'm going just for the first row
i'm going back through again but you know but most people don't do that it's just for me it just makes my life easier
so you go with the techniques that you is easier for you
yeah so when i'm learning things i usually like watching two or three artists how to do things and then i adjust and take pieces of each one
and come up with a technique that's best for me
okay now i'm not gonna make i'm gonna i'm gonna put in on
three six millimeter fire polish like i said lay out your design and do what you think is best for you this is more about
i love this some soft flex because i think it's really going to make the bracelet even stronger
because i'm not like when i've been bead weaving before
i've had you know after i've been wearing a bracelet for about a year i've had it break in a certain place
usually around the clasp i think it was but i'm going uh i don't want to redo all that or try to fix it and this um
soft flex will give you a lot more strength so you know it shouldn't happen
then i'm going to put in um six more
and if you haven't checked out the um monthly workshop for um jewel loom
you want to check that out it you know you pay for the workshop and you also get the kit
and we get a lot of surprises in the kit but jules always gives us
um extra beads you know especially when they're colorful like this one
so i should say always almost always and so um
we could um make it our own and change it up and then also it's usually a lot more to
make two or three more items like this month we're making two pair of earrings
or last month we made two pair of earrings this month we actually got another loom
the um baby i'm calling it the baby wisdom warrior
so it's about the same size as the um baby jewel loom it has that beautiful
wisdom warrior on it and so we can make like pendants or earrings on it without um wasting a lot
and wires now i know jewel says oh
let me go get back to this part now we're going to go for the two hole beads
i do have a case where one of them is two-sided it's not the same on both sides so um
i'll show you that but otherwise just throw it on the um
beads you know if you do have it works two different size you want to make sure they're facing the same way let's see if
okay see i put my needle underneath
oh i see some of that you want to make sure that your thread is pulled tight enough but not so
it warps the everything and i had some extra that i just pulled out there
so i went back through now i'm going back underneath
i was thinking of something pretty cool last night too like if you had this and you wanted to edge it say maybe
um it'd be hard to edge it in um six millimeter you know like if you wanted to put extra rows on the sides it'd be
hard to do it with six millimeters because the holes wouldn't match up right um so like if you want to edge it three
millimeters so you can line them up with the holes the two holes so you see what i did there i i just
went underneath i went through all three holes now i'm going to go back you know on the bottom of those beads
so yeah you gotta keep up the um keep in mind the alignment of the holes and whether they'll align too if you want to
mix up beads that way and i love these beads they remind me of
malachite see the darker green a lighter green i don't know if you could tell that but it's got lighter
green let me see if you can see it
i guess my camera is not wanting to focus but it's got lighter green lines in between them and i love finding um
beads like that that um you know for bead weaving or looming
that look like um that remind me of gemstones
because i love gemstones [Laughter]
okay you see that loop sticking out so i'm gonna pull on my thread to tighten that part
i have to keep an eye on that because i'm pretty bad about that i think i tighten it up and i didn't now
see we're going underneath and i find if you just let them swing under like that and go find the bottom hole
try to line them up so you can just go right through
so now they're not stringing anymore not to get under my silver silk
um oh i just want to congratulate um both jules and
nilay on being chosen like jules was chosen in um
as one of the top five innovators for um by
um interweave and uh and jewelry making
and nelay was chosen as top five trendsetters
you know both are really big honors um so i want to congratulate them and i'm really proud of both of them
because they both work so hard
and they both have wonderful custom companies with great customer service
and they're both one-man shows
as far as their business goes locally
i'm not going to make you sit through all this i just want to show you that two-sided bead
and then you know i'll come back on when um
i get to adding the thread and then also come back on when um
i get done so i can show you how to take it off i have a couple ideas for this i
neely's coming out with a making his silver silk stronger you know coming up with better
ways and so you know he's been updating his
um inventory so if you haven't tried silver stuff in a while you really need to try out some
of the new things i know he updated um the flat mesh
and he's coming out with new um capture chain well it's probably all of them
plus i was really want to use the blue on here like i said i misplaced my um
my soft flex but maybe it would have been too much glue by the time i got done because i am such
a blue freak lose teals and turquoise
give me those and i'm in love with the project
so and i always thought um green and copper look great together so that's why i went ahead and went to this
i have to get stuck back up on my soft flex it's getting pretty low and the blues i actually bought it to do
some um braiding and other beautiful bracelets i saw um sarah makin
a couple weeks ago two or three weeks ago
that soft flex is so flexible too so i made i knew this that would make this bracelet so yummy using that you know
just all easy to put on because i did have some of the seven strand and i thought uh
in green i thought about using it but then i again i thought i don't know because i've made seven strand bracelets
before and they're harder to put on but i like using them like maybe
if you're just using like a little center piece in between some wires you know so it gives a little a tiny drape
that would you know good for that okay now see what i'm saying
messed up because i one of my ends was um
i need to strengthen my i move my hands down
on the um or move my needle down on the wire
you know one time i tried making it because i i just hate okay i have to figure out this design
okay i see what i did okay
no i'm sorry about this this is part of the design got all mixed
up i think i did it that way okay
so see that's my double-sided bead so that's why i wanted to make sure i had it fixed that way
so put my needle back underneath
sorry i keep going off screen
okay so i'm going back over the top
and now i have to go underneath the silver
silk and underneath the um warps for the bottom
you know i like this bracelet because it's full of texture with the silver silk and the um
you know the like the six millimeter raise it raises up higher than the
others six millimeter fire polish does
okay let's see what we did here
we're getting close to halfway down with this bracelet
so you may have been freaking out when i used my scissors to cut the silver silk
and my orange scissors the silver silk and the um
the soft flex but the scissors are guaranteed to cut anything so and since i forgot my
cutters i just went and grabbed those instead of making you wait for me to run into the other room to get my cutters
okay now this is the one where see that this bead
is double-sided it's green on one side and that really shiny um
dark copper coppery color on the other side so i want to make sure that coppery color shows up
so when i'm laying out the beads let me make the holes
i want to lay them out in the direction i'm going
and then you want to make sure you go through the top row once you lay out what how you want it looking on the
loom and when you go to put on your class you also want to be mindful of that so your class is facing the right
way you're not showing the bottom of the of that bead or beads because i did that on another bracelet so luckily
it's the plain side of the clasp showing up but because i didn't really want to remove it that's what i did on that
black one i showed you earlier oops i see that little black loop again
and then all you have to do is go um back through the bottom then
again where they're swinging so they don't have to swing
okay so i'm going to stop here and get caught up until i'm starting to run out of thread so i could show you
how to add thread without having to feed through a bunch of beads and tie knots and things
i'm gonna and the thread burner's gonna help me quite a bit on that so it will return when i get to that point
okay i'm gonna show you how to add um more thread to your um
thread on the loom i'm um and let me feed this
right back through here i like to try to make the thread that's
already on the limit as short as possible so i don't have to fight with it a little bit later
okay so what you do first is you get some more thread that you're
using to weave you know guess about how much you need i'm just going to be on the safe side
and get about another yard
then you tie it to the other thread
i just kind of make a square knot or whatever tie it down
and then you need your thread burner so
here i'm sorry i forgot to get it okay
what you want to do is make little balls at the ends of the threads that you tied
this might be harder to do with size 15 beads but i have done this before getting them through
you just take some more tugging
so once you get the balls on the end
um grab the threads not the ends and just tug and see you got that little
ball there let me see if i can shave a little ball
so but you know it's where the threads met there's a little ball
so then just thread the extra thread now on the needle
on a bracelet i made yesterday i was able to hide that little ball into the silver silk
which made it lucky okay and then just go ahead with your stringing
i got like a little sunbeam bead there only had one left so i'd make it at the center piece of
of the bracelet so now when you get down to that ball
it's gonna have to tug a little bit that one was easier to go through oh what did i do i forgot to go
so until you get the ball you know past the ball you're just gonna have to do a little bit more tugging
but it's not really hard and i've never broken a string yet doing it now i have
made the strings come apart because i didn't make the balls big enough
at the ends of the threads
okay oh i was lucky i got that hidden inside i think that last bead
and you just go on from there and then i'll come back when i'm done
with the um weaving okay i'm almost done with the beading
i forgot that i am planning on using um slide connectors i only have silver
and gold so i'm going to use the gold um in which case i need seed beads 11
size 11 or size um eights for these to go over
and actually i had some it and it doesn't matter what color the those seed beads are because they're going to be
hidden by the slide connector they're going to be inside it and i had some ugly
black wonky ones that i bought years ago
when i was just grabbing things up from my stash so and they're size 12 so just
slightly smaller which i'm hoping to make some more room for the crimps when i crimp together the um beading wire
so i'm going to add it down here and as you can see it's kind of because the silver silk is wider and i got too close
to the end it's got a little wonky here but it'll smooth out when i take it off the loom
and um you know what they say you know i said i'd start a quarter inch below the
jewel loom named up here where i'm really bad about estimating sizes i mean somebody could tell me
four inches is six inches and i probably believe them so okay so let's get started just
finishing up this last row
so um at the top you know when it was where it's smoother i added um 12 seed
beads so even though it's a little tight here once it smooths out i'm um it should be about the same
amount of room so i'm going to add 12 down to the bottom two 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
sorry about this it's almost as bad as some doing a the first row
because it's kind of tight they're all just kind of wanting to go all over the place
so i'm putting four in between each warp set of warps
and if you didn't know it the length going down up and down like this are called warps
and the other ones that go across right now i can't think of it beginning
to the w-2 so i just call it weaving
knows that might be the name of it i just don't remember okay
okay i'm going to do the cheaters way
okay i'm just pulling all the thread from the other side from when i went underneath
now i'm trying to hit the very last bead before i go over the silver silk
now i want to do this actually what i'm going to do now because i want to strengthen it to
make sure that you know when the um the slider clasp doesn't come out i want
to make sure that strong in between so i'm going to go through the second
row again and by the way i did add thread like i
showed you so i can no i didn't add thread i left enough but you can add thread if you don't have enough thread
at the beginning to um do this i just want to make sure that
it's really strong in between the rows that it's still not going to pull out
i'd rather be safe than sorry after all this work i don't want it falling apart [Music]
it doesn't help that my needle's slightly bent i should get my um
um my nylon jaw pliers and smooth them out
see this could have been done at the beginning sorry about this or no i guess this is my ending row but
that could have been done as the first row at the other end if i would have thought about it you know like joel says
always think about how you're going to finish it i sized it for the the um
um it's like um connector but i didn't think it through for some
reason i was thinking of um using something else
i'm just going to slide it through the silver silk i'm going to slide it underneath then and then i can tie it off
okay now we're going to remove it from the loom and we want to do this carefully it shouldn't be too hard to do
um i'm removing the one end you know i took took off the bead clip
and the silver silk and the other end should be able to
slide off pretty easily then
now what i want to do is i want to make sure it's spread um
you know because it was all wonky down here i just want to make sure it's smoothed out
that um you know it's not gapping or anything we're trying to be on top of each other
i want two clipboard no no one there that one has a wire cutter on it
okay i'm going to show you how to finish this off with the slide clasp
just to let you know that i did this once before and i made a big mistake i said to cut
it too short and so that meant that it wasn't working
right so i unraveled some of the ends and put on some um
plain black nicer size 11 so i could um
work through this and get it through the line and bleed me it's a lot easier to do it on the limb than to do it laying
out weaving those things so now i found the easiest way
and these is i'm going to just put a seed
bead on each silver silk now i did tie them in the one that i um
scrapped in that tutorial because um and i glued it the ends and it seemed to be
really strong you know this is a couple of days later but um
you know so you could tie them but mine now are cut too short to do that
so if you tie them i suggest putting glue on the ends because the ties will go through the um you know if you tie
them enough tight enough to the um seed beads they will go into the clasp
and this like connector now since i did this too short once we
we get done with it i'll measure and see what risk risk size is for but you know if you do make yours too
short you can also have the option of maybe um attaching you know wire wrapping some
um beads to the end or even attaching some
you know to these take removing the clasp and um
wire wrapping some beads or um attaching some chain there
okay so i'm just gonna let's see i got the black seed bead and there's my crimp it
doesn't matter what color crimp you use too i'm using a size one just
i mean if you only have size two just put another strand of um soft flex in it
i tried that and it just wasn't working so you know i was i mean i was having a hard time and i wanted to get this done
so i just switched over to these size ones i don't know how neely doesn't
okay so i'm just putting in the back and making a little noodle out of it and
putting in the front slot so i'm just using a traditional crimper and i just broke my seed bead underneath but i'm
not going to worry about that crimson still stay in place
okay now the part where i i said wrong
is i had you just cut right above the seed beads before but don't go up to
they will fit in if you know two above the um your row of seed beads it's going to go
in the connector that way all your strings won't start
sorry one of my connect one of my crimpers has a cutter at the end
and i should still get another cutter there
and i'm going to cut these right above the cramps
so i put that first ball in there i don't want to wrap that make sure the wire the
silver silk is kind of wrapped around there
now you want to make sure these this slot is open enough it's not
i found if i found something flat like i ran these um so there's a third to open it up more
because you can always kind of crimp it close you know with chain nose pliers or something
now the size i'm using here are size 25.4
so that'll give enough room for these you know to move those around
i'm going to open that up a little bit more in the end my other end went through really
make sure that wire ends are in there
let me turn the other and make the other end work better
there's room in there since i'm using size 11s and these cl these
slide connectors can use up to size eight so see i'm just sliding it right through
and i know there's room in this because my first bracelet i used a size um
18 i mean it was old silver silk you know 18 millimeter slide connector it
was old silver silk so it wasn't as thick as the really nice quality silver silk i mean by saying old it was pre
kneeling so i mean i just pushed the last in and now we're going to just close this down
and then i'll just kind of tighten these ends
okay so let's see do i have a
from connector to connector
this measures six inches but you know i had taken off one section
of these fire you know like that on each end of the red ones
so um and my class is going to add another inch so you know if
if you have a six inch wrist and then your clasp for six and a half that's going to work beautifully
but you can also find like um a a bigger clasp put on this
or a wire wrap like i said before that's it for our tutorial thank you for
joining me just wanted to show you the bracelet on my wrist um as you could see it was a little too
short so i um wire wrapped a couple beads the back you know i might have liked to have bigger beads to make a
little bit wider here or you could even use like links and wire up some um some
of the fire polished beads and the links and then i just use the magnetic clasp
you know there's even some clasps like i used one in a project that was like one and a half inches long and that might
you know as a toggle clasp and that would fit in here and look like the decoration so you know there's a lot of options for
when you make the um bracelet too short but like i said there's a lot of people that could still
wear it when it says size i just couldn't um so thanks again and um please read
the description for any um links or um you know you may want to have and
i'm in chat posted links too we decided right before i started recording this that
the links that we would treat this like the jewel school video
joe loom school video this week since jules and trish are at
bead fest so um and also remember to check out our blog um which you'll find a lot of um
the past tutorials besides the current ones in there um and just by looking at the picture
you'll find quickly what you want to look for so i hope you all have an evening a great evening and thank you for joining
