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Bead Loom Basics - How to use your Original Jewel Loom Bead Loom to make a Beaded Bracelet

April 12, 2024

In this video Jewels shows you how to set up your Jewel Loom Bead Loom & weave.

Starting with the insertion of the metal rod, including tips to flex (not bend) the loom
Warping with cord (she uses Hemptique Hemp for the warps)
Threading your Jewel Loom Needle with .006 Blue Wildfire Beading Thread
Weaving in 6mm Fire Polish Beads
Removing the finished bracelet from the loom
Tying the warps together and adding a wood button clasp

She uses the Original Jewel Loom, Jewel Loom Needles, and the NEW Jewel Loom Branded Bead Kit

Watch the tutorial below

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Transcript:

welcome in everyone welcome to juwel loom School live it's April 11th Thursday what a

beautiful beautiful day and I am so excited I love when I get the

opportunity to go back to the basics and to talk about the original jewel

loom the blue one and to really break down

what it is how it's used and all of the different techniques that will come in

handy when you're especially when you're first starting out so if you're a firsttime bead Loomer it's always good

to know um some of the tips and tricks in order to have a successful project at

the end and of course you're going to be practicing practicing practicing and

that's okay um you know that's just what we do when when we're learning something

new like beating on a loom and so even if you have done off Loom work you're

definitely going to have a period of time where you're adjusting to the technique of actually being on the warps

on a loom so any who I hope everybody's doing really fabulous today again I'm

Juliana Avalar the inventor of the jewel loom Jewel lom's been out for gosh at

least 10 years now and uh can be found all over the world such a blessing such

a little blue blessing and so whether you're shopping online or at a big

retailer somewhere throughout the country or small Mom and Pop um we love

love love that you show the jewel loom so much love and the baby jewel loom and

those jewel loom needles are like hotter than fire right Joan Joan's in the

background and she's like um making sure that your questions are getting answered and so she'll throw them up on the

screen and I'll be able to help you out um and so yeah so we've got we've got

Queen Joan in the background and so you probably can see other looms that

are sitting over in this area so after I came out with the plastic blue loom I

did birth an entire line of sustainable Baltic birch wood Loom and accessories

and so those are very similar you know a warp is a warp and a weft is a we it

just depends on what type of loom you are on and what your

final expectation of your project may be how big you want it um and so like with

the large wisdom Warrior of course you can make really long pieces sunweaver makes really gorgeous mixed media pieces

and the original jewel loom makes super fabulous bracelets and so I

actually put a kit together for us today this is the jewel loom branded bead

kit and we took the logo for the jewel loom and we put it onto a button and so

I super love that and then all of these gorgeous colors of the lavenders and the blues really represent the jul Loom

brand and so I thought well how fun I had an opportunity to get these beads at a really great price and I was like I

will take them all first of all I will take them all and make a fabulous kit at a really

great price this is in the shop the button four strands of the check glass Beed fire polish um deliciousness this

color coating on these beads is just outstanding and two yards of the

hemptique hemp cord you know I love hemptique they've got sustained um hemp that they use and produce and

they're a small family owned business and so we we love that absolutely so

this is a kit and what I want to do today is really focus

on some of the details of the jewel loom so that again if you're a firsttime user

or you just need a refresher that you really understand how it works so the

jewel loom all right that's this tool in front of me that I'm holding up the

jewel loom is a very lightweight very very lightweight I mean if it's a couple

of ounces right like it's really lightweight and it's made out of a

flexible plastic not a bendable one all right so I think psychologically I need

you to get that through your head it's a flexible plastic not a bendable so

you're not going to be bending it in half um you know don't go chasing after the kids or anything wild like that you

want to really get a hold of that in your mind that it's flexible not

bendable all right now it also comes with a metal rod and that metal rod is

inserted into the holes now part of my patent part of my design Pat are the

buttons that you're going to find on the back and on the tops here and the bottom

and basically I did that in order to help save waste because a lot of looms

you're going around and around and around and around and then all of a sudden you have all of this super like

just a ton of wasted product and you know I don't know about

you but like I love my Wildfire and you know it it costs what it's worth and I

don't want to waste it so that's part of the US patent

d76 comma 879 879 if I ever get it to it will be my US

Patent but I gotta get over the fear of needles so okay so we have our jewel

loom and we have the metal rod you might see this packaged in different locations

it's got a cute new little plastic bag and I don't sell that one one but you

mostly can find that configuration at Hobby Lobby Michaels

some of the bigger Stores um and I do believe that it's online and I'm sure

beon actually has it but at JW loom.com I don't have that one so I have had

people say oh I got my loom and where's the bag the bag was in in the picture

that was you know in the jewel loom.com shop it's not the one I sell so if you're bad

crazy then you need to find that one and wherever you buy it from it's all good

love it's all good love so all right so we've got our jewel loom and I just want

to let's talk a little bit more about some of the other things um I will be

using Wildfire today I'm using the

point6 Beeton has come out with a 0.00 for it's called Ultra and I just got a

hold of some what I think it's going to be super great for are the loops especially when we're doing tiny seed

beads and we want to go back through them but we'll we'll cross that bridge

when that project needs that but today .006 wildfire and I'm using their

delicious blue why not jul and blue right so we got the wildfire and then I

don't know if you have tried the jewel loom needles obviously if you've bought

a starter kit for me I include a pack of them in the starter kit people buy the

jewel loom needles like seriously it's crazy we see these needles flying out

the door and we all kind of look at each other like what are they doing with

them like what because I know they're great for what we do but but I think

there's other categories that are using the needle and I think it's because it's so perfectly sized it's three inches I

personally cannot get my fingers around a traditional bead needle anymore I can't hold them because of all the wire

workking and beating I've done I just can't close my fingers anymore so so the

jewel loom needle works really super well and um it's hugely popular so we've

got our jeom needle we have our wildfire it's always great to have a good pair of um sharp scissors when you're beating I

love these robber and Karen gifted them to me I think it might have been last year and flat nose pliers so I use the

flatnose pliers to flatten the Wildfire before I tried

to thread it so the eye on the jewel loom needle is a little narrow and

so um flattening the end of the wild fly Wild Fire And

then trying to get it threaded to the needle is really the best way to do that and I'm going to show you that so we're

just kind of going through what I'm using but again um gorgeous bracelet super beautiful very very easy so if

you're new to beading and you just want to try it and you want to do something that's um not going to to cause like

this big huge investment then then it's got a perfect entry point you know you

can you can get a loom for like $13 I think it is and and uh the kits 15 and

knock your socks off so without further Ado the other thing I do want to once

again visit it's a flexible plastic it's got a shiny

bottom and it Wiggles it wiggles like it's mama that's what I always say it wiggles like it's mama so I've had

people who are like it moves yeah it's not a piece of wood it's a

piece of really lightweight plastic and it wiggles like it's mama so if that's something that you know you want to

solve we've got a jewel loom stand now um it fits perfectly into the stand it

can actually lay in the stand while you're working on it so it doesn't move

if you don't um have the stand yet definitely need to get one but in the

meantime you can work on a Surface like the bead mat you can put some painters

tape on this back side and stick it down you can uh work on the

shelfing um oh gosh I always forget the name of that I'm sure somebody in the group is going to list it you know how

when we line our shelves and it's got that nonskid kind of surface

that stuff okay but hey this is super reasonably priced and it's made for the

jeel loom and it actually stands up right too so I'll show you that okay so without further Ado what I want to get

into is inserting the metal rod okay so again

and I think I want to actually I think I actually want to stand for this because

I like the sh shot right here okay so I've got my

loom okay and this bottom hole is closest to

my body all right and I'm going to take the metal rod you see how it's sticking up right there it's doing that on both

ends and we're just going to place that into the bottom hole and then I swing it

up to the front and then what I'm going to do and I'm just going to use my belly

right there and it just snaps in okay so

if I were to come back and try to get it out and it wasn't budging do not force

it okay do not force it all right what you're gonna do I'm G so you're not like

okay what you're going to do is you're going to turn it and I don't know what magically

happens but It's Magic okay so like the tension

shifts but don't ever force it to come out again you're working with a flexible

plastic not a bendable plastic super lightweight it's got curves like its

Mama by the way I'm its mama okay so when I say it wiggles like me it wiggles like me and it's curvy all right so

don't ever Force the rod to come out um turn it around like I just did

okay pop it in and this is what it's going to look like this is what your loom should look like after you put the

metal rod in so it's got like this perfect you know indentation down here

it's in this warped State and it's ready for its warped threads so we're going to

go to the overhead because now we want to do that and I'm going to make sure my chair is in the right spot so I don't

fall and bust my butt all right

and do you want to bring me up

Joan so I don't mess it up okay cool beans there we go and you can hear me

okay I'm not sure that I got a did you say you could hear me

okay once in a while I'm hearing like a little like electrical sound if I hear

it again I'll let you know okay but you can hear me yeah okay cool all right

so I'm GNA turn the loom over and you can get rid of my shot Joan

if you want to as long as you can still hear me okay and I it's so funny I feel like

I'm just like completely sitting on top of myself here all right okay so what I'm going to

do now is I have turned the loom

over and I'm going to refer to this as like the front part or the let me see

because this is the back side of the Loom but but it's closest to my body all right so here's my finger and my body is

over here and so I'm going to

attach the hemptique hemp cord and I'm just going to

make wh I'm going to make a

little thought I was going to make a little knot I was going to make like a little n Loop right here just trying to

attach it to the back button and of course it wants to dance everywhere then I'm going to pull nice and tight and I

can do another um another knot

all right and so awesome okay now let me show you this

you see where these this knot was made okay you want that knot to follow you

and what I mean by that is you see how it's starting to tug a little and I pulled the hemp over to the side of my

loom I want that knot to be facing me because if the knots way back here and

you don't pull then you're going to have this tiny tiny little bit of material of

warp threads that are going to make your first warp knot taut enough so make sure

your knot is looking at you so then what I'm going to do is I've got

the hemp in my hand and I'm going to lay it down on the grid I'm going to flip

the loom over

[Music] and there we go and so I don't necessarily count how many grooves are I

skipped up on the top and make sure that they're the same on the bottom I can eyeball it and I can see and then I'm

going to bring my finger in and I can feel that

I've got this really nice and taut so I'm going to flip it over again and coming around that back button

make sure that you don't grab the rod by accident because that too is going to

really screw up your tension so make sure that the hemp cord is going around or the Wildfire or whatever warping

material you're working with make sure it's coming around that back button now

I'm working with a 6 millimeter bead so I'm going to want to skip three

grooves so looks like I'm pretty good and then I'll

flip it back back around and I'm going to bring it all the

way back up and let's just see for Giggles we got

one two three so I could actually scooch that over a little bit then I'm going to

flip it back and we're going to wrap around that

back button skip three whoop skip three

again and I could see I'm awful little so one two

three bring it back now I'm

making four warps because I am using three beads

across so we're going to keep doing this

motion okay so one two

three and now what we want to do is we'll take the hemp cord and we wrap it

around that back button a couple of times the cool thing is when you're working with a thick material like the

cord it locks itself into the wrap back here because it's so

thick it's like it's locking so you don't have that stress of like losing

your tension as much as you do sometimes with like say the beating thread like

the Wildfire so now I'm just going to

whoops going to make a

knot

okay and we'll just do that one more

time okay all right so I'm going to trim

this now um let me see really quick here I want

to get up a little bit higher let

me let me adjust because I want you to really

understand what's gonna what's happening

okay okay we're a one a one woman show

here and the one woman on each side of the screen okay let's see if that helps

so the metal rod comes out after you

create your warps all right you may have seen where people leave the metal rod in

the whole idea the whole concept of the jewel loom having the best warp the best

tension is that it all comes together when you remove the metal rod so I've

got my pointer finger up here and I've got a placed onto the warp

threads and what I'm going to do is very carefully and again if that's not going

to come out I don't force it I turn it

around let me stand up I gotta get I got to get the

right so we'll turn it around we never force it there we go so it'll pop

out and so you had to just kind of turn it a couple of times just to loosen up the the totness of the rod but you don't

ever ever want to force it I think um what you need to remember and I'll say

this a thousand times is that the plastic is flexible so you never want to

add any stress to it so this is gorgeous

look it perfect perfect warp so what I do want

to show you next is that and hopefully this is a good

visual all right so I'm tilting the loom forward because I want to show you so

here's here's its belly right and this part of the Loom is facing up to the

ceiling and here's the warps so the distance between the

warps and this Bend in the jewel loom should not be

more than 2 in this is a good 2 in

okay and so it's really important to take

note of that because I've seen some looms that are way too tight and you

have got a lot more distance than the 2 in and you're

stressing your jewel loom okay okay so practice with that I would say that

learning how to do your warps and getting the perfect tension just takes

time you just got to practice play around with different materials and don't be so hard on yourself you're

learning something new and again two

inches okay so I are there any questions

about any of that so far I haven't seen anything come up I did see um Maria yes to your point if you're

using a stretchy type of material like leather or say you take an old pair of

denim pants and you shred them or you take an old cotton shirt and you shred

it or even if you use some Sor ribbon things that have no oomph

right um yeah you could definitely leave your rod in because it's is going to help

to you know keep the um totness of your warps with that type of material so yeah

good good point Maria thank you now with the Jew lium needle as I mentioned

earlier now I had two needles what's going on here do we got a needle down I

think we might have a needle down hold on needle down where did it go

definitely got to find the Neil because we don't want Marlon Brando to

uh it's kind of like the missing sock in the dryer right where where did the

missing sock go okay well we're just not going to definitely let the dog in okay

so what I am going to do though is and it'll work out perfectly so I've got a

needle and I'm using using about two yards of the um blue Wildfire by Beeton

it is my favorite to work with very sturdy and exactly what you

need okay so I've cut a piece off and now what I want to do is I want

to bring my flat nose pliers in and I'm

just flattening the end that's going to go into the jewel loom

needle okay and it just makes life a lot easier

when you're trying to thread um that eye because it can be a little

small this needle that is just so funny where is my needle

at I got everything right here okay so let's just see if I'm going to be able

to do this I'm gonna have to stand up again so I can look

down so I pinch it in between let me get my fingers in

the looks like we have a little bit of a a

delay and

hopefully this is why I had one ready to go oh my

heck nope okay hold that

thought that is so strange Joan I didn't have it when we were talking

right that's so funny the needle

goblins all right so just bringing in a different needle right now I'm sure it's

on the ground

somewhere it's why we always do our

needles the pressure is on

I'm going to go over to the light hold

on I can hear everybody screaming in the background there we go thank you thank

you thank you okay all righty and we probably needed

that light anyway so okay so now we're ready to add our

beads we got our needle all dialed in and our wildfire and so some people start their

projects with a little side knot on the side warp and others don't Maria doesn't

do any knots and um I just basically

do one little

one little knot to get started and then I use my Wildfire burner to secure it my

goodness come on now okay so the first bracelet that I made I use

all of the beads because I wanted you to know how big of a bracelet you can make

from the kit and so this is going to allow for just about eight8 and 1 half

inches for a wrist it's pretty long and so when you're putting when you're building your piece on the jewel loom

you really want to center it so that you have enough

warps on each end in order to come back and tie and make your

Loop and tie and add your button okay so I'm going to Center my project and

usually it's right below that top hole

and my needle and thread okay my needle and thread are in my left hand the jewel loom is in front

of me and this is my right hand and so I'm going to bring the needle and thread

under the warps transfer it to my right hand and then I'm going to pick up three

beads and I'm going to scooch these over so you can see how pretty they are this lavender one all of them killed me that

coating is just magnificent so we're going to pick up

one two three and then I'm just going to help

guide them because I've got a lot of wildfire in fact I'm going to scooch everything

over and I'm just guiding the Wildfire so that it doesn't get tangled or caught

on anything and so right now the beads are hanging under the warps I'm going to

take my pointer and my hand and I just help to guide them up and in between the

warp threads okay and then I'm taking the needle and I'm going back through the

beads and because we're using the 1 mm hemp it's a very tight pass through you

just have to be slow and patient all right and then I'll transfer my hand and

I hold it down and again I'm just very careful taking

my time pulling the wildfire and then when I get to this spot right here I can see that this

little guy kind of jumped out so I'm just going to help him get back in and there he

goes and there's our first row okay then we're going to do the same thing again

we come under the warps transfer it over to my right hand and then I'm just going

to reverse the pattern so I'll pick up a pretty light blue I'm

going to keep all my lavenders in the middle and a little bit of a darker

blue again I'm just going to help guide these all the way down to the

bottom they're going to pop up in between the warps I'm going back through

the beads and my needle is on top of the cord you can see that the needle doesn't

want to go straight across and we're not going to struggle with that we're if it needs to come in at an angle we're going

to let it have the freedom to do so and then we'll straighten it out when we get all the way pulled through it'll just

make life easier whoops so just continue there and then

we scooch that up pull that a little bit so you always want to make sure that you pull just enough that not your Wildfire

is not leaving like a loop because that's a total pain in the end you can't

really fix it so you're just going to pull come back under this time I'm going

to do three lavenders I'm not working off of a specific pattern I'm just doing

what I want to do so um these beads may speak to you in a different way and you

lay them out differently by the way I had four be s

left after I made that uh long bracelet and I made earrings and I'm

actually wearing them so I'll have to remember to show them to you when I get done here so again we're just going to make

sure everything is nice and help guide that little bit of wildfire and then we'll go

back to the dark blue

and the lavender this powder blue is really

really

pretty yeah when you work with a long piece of wildfire it's just like it wants to attach itself to all the

corners and all the edges and so you just have to be really careful and help to guide

it by all means you could split this um these beads up and and you could just do

two rows and then you probably could get I don't know I didn't try it so I'm not

going to say you could get two bracelets but you'd have extra beads so you probably could

try Okay and then we're going to pick up

lavender or wait no we're gonna we went blue

Lavender Blue and now we're going to do blue getting ahead of

myself so the excuse me this type of a

bracelet will go really fast you could you should be able to get to the point where you can whip one of these up um

with than an hour okay so we got another row that

wants to go in more at an angle so I'm not going to force it I'm just going to let it go up and then I'll straighten it

out but hopefully you're watching my hands to how I kind of maneuver with you know putting pressure in the middle of

the Loom and lifting and moving it's kind of

a little dance that we do and then we're going to go back to three left

lavenders so all of the kits have four strands of the beads um they're a

different combination of how many strands of the colors you get like this

one had two lavenders a light blue and a darker blue the first one over there had

two darker Blues a lavender and a light blue so we had to spread the love

amongst all of the kits um they're all G gorgeous they're all a combination of the colors that you

see okay so are we nice and straight got to look up here perfect

okay and then we'll go back to the blue

and

lavender [Music]

and we're going to take the needle going back through you can see how it gets a little easier after you come down a few

rows there's it's not as tight as that first row or maybe even the second one

start to get a little more flexibility but the 1 mm hemp is is

quite substantial and I I love working with it so blue

[Music]

lavender so I'm going to make this one so that it fits me I have a 6inch

rest and I believe for me it's like I think it's 25 Rose we'll have to

see so yeah I just want to encourage you to definitely practice your warps

practice really understanding um you know how the loom feels the weight of

the Loom the bend of the Loom and really not um you know just being really

careful with the insertion of the metal rod and the removal of

it and not ever forcing

it so I don't see any um specific spefic

questions the hardest part is just finding these little holes sometimes it's like where are

you there we

are it's so pretty it looks like candy it's going to be the perfect summer um

spring spring summer oh this would be a great um Mama day

bracelet I was just thinking that that'd be really

pretty and so where are we at we're going to go

back [Music]

oh we got a

barker that's the the one video out there where the dog they say the dogs

saved the human from the UPS man FedEx man the mailman the delivery man it's

like I think about that every time Marlon Brando barks it's like

dude beating and dogs

right

oops so again just making notes see how this one wants to go in at angle so

don't fight it just let it go that way and then guide all the wildfire

up and then you can scooch it and make it right

[Music]

so you could use a lighter weight hemp te hemp cord they do have

5.5 this is a 1 Point millimeter um the five the0 five is

definitely thinner and I just really prefer the

one because it um I don't know just for the bracelets I feel like it's so much

more sturdy but then a lot of people prefer the five and they're happy and so

you know you probably are going to have to um play around with the two different

sizes and see perhaps what works for you I also like the one because when I'm

using the technique of adding a wood button it's just more sturdy to thread

through so that I appreciate and um and again this

is the hemptique hemp cord that we love so

much I don't know if this one I don't think this one is called mermaid I think this one is maybe called unicorn I don't

know what's the difference isn't a mermaid unicorn similar similar color palettes

but I do I I think this one might be called

unicorn you know the problem is that they're all beautiful especially the variegated hemp cords oh my gosh I could

just I could just have a closet full of

those okay so I'm just making sure I'm not pulling too

tight and let's go pretty quickly here

and again this isn't a particular pattern it's just a hey I've got you know three different colors and how am I

going to spread the love on this one and so I'm just making it simple but I think

it's really

pretty yeah this one really wants to go at at an

angle it's also like cupcakes right this kind of reminds me of cupcakes I never have a

sweet tooth and I got to tell you over the last couple of days I've had one and what is that all about I'm definitely

not pregnant

so like where's that sweet tooth coming from I'm usually the salt girl like give

me a bag of chips you know Blue Chips I'm a blue chip girl

all right so going back through always making sure that the needle is on top of the warps when you're going back through

you can see the shininess of it if you're not on top of the warps

basically what happens is right here in this moment a bead would drop and that's

no fun so you always want to make sure that you're on top of the warps when you're going back

through

one of the things to consider as well even though we're kind of I guess I

think it would be fair to say in most parts of the country where we're coming

out of winter but I will say and Joan and I have both experienced this that

when the loom gets really cold believe it or not you need to warm it up like we'll literally if it's been in our

studio and the studio gets really cold or what have you we'll like literally warm up

the loom with our hands just to I don't know what the right word

would be to warm it

up and uh it definitely helps so we've got a lot of

our our bracelet almost done here you know again when you're not trying to talk talk and uh video something uh

you're going to get this done very quickly it's a really easy type of bracelet to

make

and Jan's giggling I don't know why

might be a conversation for

later so I would definitely say you know if you're a beginner on the loom um I

feel like this size bead if you're you

know I don't know if you want something super super easy but then I'm also a super fan of

you know working with the sea beads so I think it's going to be a personal

preference what you want to start with

um but I think once you really

understand the ways of the Jew Loom uh that you will have a really great

experience okay so I still think we have some few more rows to go for my size

bracelet as I said I used all the beads but four of them and that bracelet

length is more than likely going to accommodate a person with up to an eight

maybe an eight and a quarter inch wrist oops y there we

go and you can kind of see I'm just like really just flowing with that

bead hole there I'm not fussing with it I'm just really

letting it be its own bead and then we're going to

go back here they look like little pyramids too

it's like the little unicorn mermaid

house yeah so the other thing too that I want to point

out let me just see here I'm being really careful not to put my needle through the hemp cord because oi that is

a pain in the tush you don't want to go through you know the cord um so you got

to be really careful and you know just kind of every once in a while slow down

and really make sure that your needle's not going to go through the cord because then basically you've sewed yourself

onto your warps and you're not going to be able to move not

exactly what we want right so let me see where we're at with

sizing I'm going to go ahead and get my needle

through another reason why if the beads want to go in an angle I let them

because I'd rather not accidentally put my needle through the

the hemp cord so let's see what we've got going on here let me bring

this um okay so I definitely got just a

couple more rows so where do we we're on the

blues so [Music] blue

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you do gain some length um with your button and the loop and

so you know you can go a little bit shorter I think I'm going to do one more

row and then I'm going to count to see what I got going on

here

oh and there the scratching goes sorry buddy but we got a missing

needle so we got to find the needle before those little Peepaw come in here because that will not be fun let me

scooch this up for you okay so I've got one two three four five six 7 8 9 10 11

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24

25 26 so actually got one more row than I would probably normally do um what I'm

going to do next is I like coming under the warps on that last

row and I try it's a little hard with the with the 1 millimeter but like to get under if I

can it just helps to lock in that last

you could do it on the first row too so and then I'll just go back

through okay all right and then what I'm going to do is I'm going to come

up I think I got to turn myself here I'm G to come up and out and in

between that first bead and that second

bead okay and then I'm going to grab the

warp and I do this just to kind of hide my

knot so you can't even see it and then I'm going to take the needle

and I'm pushing the needle back so that it's pull that to the back here okay

cool and let's see get my scissors and I'll come back in with with

the Wildfire burner in we'll take care of that and I just

feel like I want to maybe let's see if I can get my cold

fingers I love the flat nose um because they just act like that extra hand that

sometimes you need there we go and I'll do the same

thing with that I'll get the Wildfire burner and make a little thingy

there scooch everything over so for my size bracelet for a 6inch wrist I mean

we still got all these beads look at this we still have lots and then if you only did two rows you know you could

probably do like a cool long single strand so don't be afraid to like lay your beads out and see maybe you know

what you can do um with the extras if you do have extra or if you don't want to go three across so I'm just going to

get these um let's see actually we'll just scooch this guy

over and come over here and very carefully so

I like to hold the glass beads in my hand and then I'll come over here and

sandwich the loom so I've kind of like got this whole thing going on we part of

the bracelets in my palm I've got my pointer up here I've got my thumb and

the whole reason is that when I cut the warps it's going to expand and I don't want the glass beads to hit the table

and then we don't want breakage so so just going to be careful here

whoa okay I'm gonna get that out of the way

and it looks I try to I try to leave the longest part

for the bottom end where I'm going to do the loop and then I'll use the shorter

warps for the button okay so what I'm going to do

though first is I'm going to take these two warps swing them

around and I just want to make a knot and I go pretty slow just because I want to get it as close to that bead as I can

so I'll just walk it down sometimes I'll just pull one warp very

carefully pull pull the other one because what you also don't want to

do is you don't want to shift the warps okay

we'll grab this come

[Music] around and again just being careful that

I'm not pulling too tight so I'll just like grab one of the warps and tug

it there we go nice I love when you can actually feel it's almost like you can feel and hear the success of what you

were trying to do okay so so um yeah this is my

top the only reason why I know this is my top is because I just saw my little wild fire string that I'm going to need

to um to use the burner on and so I'm just going to take let's see are we in

the right spot yeah take and put the two warps through the holes here

and I'll just do you know kind of semise secure

because I don't know if there's any adjustments that need to be made so I I'll do like my first

one you know and then come in carefully with my second knot and I don't trim

anything until I know for sure that I've got my sizing

correct okay and then on this end I'll go ahead head

and cut the loops there and I'm going to do the same exact thing so I'm taking

these and again I'm just carefully walking them down with my

fingers and we'll just pull ever so

gently and we're going to do it over here to this side okay

and you can kind of see where you need to pull and okay I feel like I got to get this

guy down a little bit closer to the bead I don't want it to be so uneven so let's

just see yeah awesome that helped so just go slow you know

that's that's my main message there and then what I'll do is I'll put it on my

wrist so pretty okay and then I'll bring the button around and then I'll just

scooch these around the button and kind of eyeballing like well

how big does that Loop need to be right so I've got my fingers pinched back here

I'm like that's pretty good so then I'll just carefully get out of

this and then you know pinch this together and I think that's about right

and what you can do from here is if you have enough length you can do that same

type of knot just want to get all these guys

through and I don't want that to be too big or too

small if that's ever a challenge for you you could always just pinch all those

together and get some wire and do like a wired coil I've done that as well so there we go let's see let's

see oh my heck awesome sauce so now I feel like the the fit is great I'm going

to go back and I'm going to trim all those Tails but look at how beautiful oh

my gosh these beads are just to die for anytime your bead has like a a

coating on it it's you know you're getting like a really

good good cool bead that's like not going to be out there every where so I do want to um I feel like I might have

needed to get a little tighter there

so so I'm G to leave that there for now and so hold on one quick second so I can

come back up Joan do you want to bring me back

up so yeah that sounded very Canadian

I love that I made a bracelet and I went to Canada but I'm still in

California so I'm just going to turn on the

um comments holy guacamole there's a lot of comments this can be quick make in

under an hour absolutely and jeles has kits yes she does she does yeah so um

this was the one I made last night and again this length you know what where's

the tape measure let me get the sewing this is a sewing tape measure so if I were to

Nestle this right up to the button okay so this is using all the

beads but four

again I feel like if you have an 8 in wrist with Loop you should be able

to that should fit you so this is seven and then the loop makes like another

inch so so you should be able to get like a good 8 inch depending on how you like to wear

it everybody likes to wear their bracelet different right and then I've

got a six in wrist and this one if we do the same

thing we've got but yeah so see this would actually go

up to like seven so this is going to be a little loose on my arm which is fine sometimes if I find that the bracelet is

a little more loose than I like I will wear multiple bracelets cuz why

not so yeah and how

funny come on now come on now my ring that I made last

THS and my new bracelet who's going out

tonight look it it matches so the total eclipse ring that I made the other day

and the juwel loom branded bracelet this is my model

pose yay I hope that helps I hope that um I just want to encourage you anytime

you're trying something new you've got a new tool you just need to go easy on yourself and you just need to

practice and um you know Maria is a huge Jewel original jewel loom lover she

she's been using the jeel loom for a long time a lot of people in the group have been using the original jewel loom

you just have to understand those simple details I think

that I shared with you it's extremely lightweight okay it's made out of a

flexible plastic and I don't ever want you to fight with the metal rod okay don't ever

fight putting it in don't ever fight with taking it out shift that tension

turn the loom and breathe just breathe he can I

add something I can't remember if you mentioned this before that if the Rod's a little tight that yeah um you know

about bending one tiny bit at one yeah we haven't had that issue in a long time

knock on wood but if you were to ever notice that the ends of your Rod were

maybe just like to pointed in you could use your flat nose pliers

and just ever so slightly like seriously you're just going to be like well that didn't really do

anything but just the slightest little might be what it needed what it

needs I feel like the Factory's been doing a thousand times better on that so

but it is another little tip but regardless don't ever like I

said don't fight with your Rod be one with it okay I really hope

that this helped and I'm just so excited for all of you that

are just starting it's so fun to see you it's so fun to see you in the group and

I think it's absolutely fine to start with beads that are possibly not all the

same shapes like if you got a jam and deal on something and you just want to practice do that do you know that when I

first started we were warping with fishing line I didn't have wildfire in my life

we were warping with fishing line I still have pieces that are made from fishing line I'll have to show them to

you next time so don't stress about making a masterpiece

on your first go get the technique down really understand your jewel loom make

it your besty and just practice the warp and you

know just don't don't stress about it because weaving is a beautiful

meditative soulful gorgeous magical dance and I want you to

have fun with it and you know just don't don't take it all don't take yourself so seriously somebody said that to me today

not about me but she could have because I love her but but sometimes right we just like

it's so old don't do that I have several original looms and have never had any

issues with putting in or taking out yeah awesome Lori good stuff good stuff

and look it's magical it's magical jul lom's over here going hey you're talking about me I can't you and here I am

because I did not put that screen up there we go there we go yeah so original

jewel loom um if you're thinking about getting started and your question is

like well where do where do I start Jules look at got all these deliciousness behind you if you've never

Beed on a loom I would be as bold to even say the

baby Julie which is half the size which is already warped you don't have to deal with the metal rod it makes smaller

projects but it's a great starter Loom if you're like no I want to make a

bracelet JW Loom all day and I want you to watch this video over and over again I want you to join the free Facebook

group I want you to go julum school.com and get the free videos over

there and everyone in the group is like they're I'm telling you we're blessed

the Facebook group the jwm community we are so blessed with some incredible people everybody helps

each other so super good stuff hi Robin and Lori and Zach and I know I think I

saw carollyn in here I really was focused on this tutorial so I was not

watching your chatter I really wanted to be focused and and really give you all I

got so oh hi Nilda I I went to school with anilda

that's so interesting line is that how you say your name line

that's really beautiful that's like reminds me of just having been in in New Orleans that sounds very Louisiana I

love it and Jenny good okay yeah that's what we're here for we want you to have a great time we don't want I don't want

you to buy products and then you're just like you're not happy like that's silly

so just do your best and uh and we'll go from there so thank you very very much

refer to this video as often as you need to and um ask me any questions that you

might have you can email me at jsj loom.com

and uh or ask questions in the group because there's a lot of really cool people in the group and they just help

so yes till we meet again all right thank you all so very much and Oh Hey

listen next Thursday I'm going to be flying to Texas for the bellacon event

and so I do believe um the the Queen Mother Joan is going to have something

for you in a what we would refer to as a recorded live um the following Thursday I'm super

stoked I'm actually GNA be in Vegas for a big YouTube convention and so that's

going to be a lot of fun if I can figure out a way to go live um even if it's

just like hey look at this really cool place or I don't know and Tiffany

Windsor's going to be with me elan's daughter from creative living she's

going to be with me you know what I think maybe we should try maybe it won't

be at four o'clock Pacific Standard time because we might be still learning but we might be able to do

something so just know next Thursday Jones got the control we'll play it by a

what happens on that last Thursday of the month I love you I appreciate you thank you you everyone see you

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