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How to Loom a SilverSilk Fire & Diamonds Bracelet -Jewel Loom School with Joan

August 11, 2023

Silversilk Beaded Bracelet on Jewel Loom Silversilk Bead Loom

Learn how to use SilverSilk 3-Needle Chain to outline a bracelet to make the design pop out, besides learning to combine a seed bead pattern & Fire Polish beads into the same cuff. Joan Dice teaches how to use both SilverSilk & Wildfire together as warps, plus how to loom a seed bead pattern as a smaller section of a bracelet. This is a great tutorial to learn combining a couple of loom techniques on the sustainable Baltic Birch Wood loom to end up with a beautiful cuff.

Notice: Jewels is traveling across the country, so new orders, except for wood products, will not be fulfilled until at least August 21st. Wood products will still be shipped on their regular schedule, since they are fulfilled in Missouri.As a thank you for your patience, Jewels is giving 25% off of all products, except the wood products. This is a great time to stock up on your supplies! www.jewelloom.com?aff=11

Fire & Diamonds Pattern -https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O0Z6nRPguOz1WS7X1uzFDEW_r23WQdF6cWAj-OZPfSg/edit?usp=sharing

Supplies Used:

SilverSilk 3-Needle Chain
5mm Fire Polished Beads - 3 colors
11/0 Seed Beads - 4 colors
Wildfire
⅛” ribbon
Ribbon ends
Clasp
SilverSilk Loom
SilverSilk Bead Board

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SilverSilk 3-Needle Chain -https://www.silversilkonline.com/3needle-chain
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11/0 Seed Beads -https://jewelloom.com/collections/seed-beads/size-11-0?aff=11

Buy your SilverSilk Loom, SilverSilk Bead Board, & even SilverSilk Silkies pendants here: https://jewelloom.com/collections/silversilk?aff=11

How to Add A Ribbon Clasp to Your Beaded Project: https://jewelloom.com/blogs/craft-hangover/how-to-add-a-ribbon-clasp-to-your-beaded-project (this shows the easier way to put a ribbon crimp end next to your woven beads)

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Transcript:

hi I'm John Dice and I'm here to do another fun tutorial on the silver silk

loom using um the silver silk three needle chain and

um but before I get started I like to make one announcement please forgive me I'm going to be reading this so I don't forget it any parts of it

um starting yesterday which is Wednesday all new orders except for the wood

products will have delayed shipping um Jules is traveling across the country starting tomorrow Friday so only Wood

Products will ship until August 21st because they ship from a facility in

Missouri so that's a totally different facility all other orders will ship

starting August 21st that are in place between um yesterday through the 21st for your

patience Jules is offering 25 off all items except for the wood items while

she travels just remember the wood items are the bead boards the wood looms and

um like um wood buttons I don't think she has any pendants left but um anything made

of wood um so I just want to give you some examples

of how this 25 off affects the price you know we've been um pushing the Julian

starter kit and it the price on that was reduced to 25 and I checked on the

website um for you know the baby limb the regular original jewel loom and enough

products to make your first project you know so it's

great for Christmas or um birthdays just a gift or even to add to your collection that is now 21.75

that is a fantastic price for the value you get and also um

glass pearls which is usually um four dollars and now three dollars and you

know you can use that on the limb but you can use those on any of your jewelry making

um items and another great value the five dollars check glass mixes are now 375. you know so just think of all your

findings cords and beads are all on sale you know besides some other things I'm

not thinking of offhand Okay so I just want to go over we are using the

silver silk loom today it's um it's a wood made of sustainable

Baltic Birch wood Loom and and the cords are made for the three

millimeter um silver set cords but it is great for

the three needle because it is really less waste using this slim when you're

warping and then I'll also be using another sustainable Baltic Birch Pro product the

um the Silver B board I love how this is sectioned out

so I use that a lot um with my bigger beads

so let's get started on on our project then and just to show you what we're going to be making we're going to be

making this bracelet with the CB pattern and fire polish so um and then this is a great

um sorry my brain's going faster than my mouth and this is a great way to start

on seed bead patterns if you're pretty worried about it because um the fire polish can take up a lot of

room so you only give them one small section of the seed bead pattern so let's get started

I'm going to show you what I'm going to be using today um I have some like rainbow clear

crystals and I had this metallic gold Japanese glass bead I just think that really pops

out these are all 11 of those right here and then I have like a gold lined

um clear bead and blue beads also 11 0's and then for the fire polish

I have like a light blue a darker gold color

and then this is like a really dark one with like blue and other color highlights

so um those are going to be like centerpiece and um end of the bracelets

so and I got those all laid out on my bead board unfortunately I didn't look at my chart so I didn't lay the seed

beads out in the right order I wish I would have put um the blue here and then

move these down so um there is a i there is a chart that um

I'm gonna I'm gonna add the attachment to in the description and unfortunately

when I printed it out it didn't come out good but I also have a um like it written out too for the seed

bead part but all this is right now it's going to be part of it as you can see there's my chart I tend not to use the

chart anyway so um

I want to show you how to warp first and we're going to do it the easy way I decided to use blue just add a more blue

accents to this so blue wildfire

and actually I need to only need two warps for this and they're going to be the center warps so I'm going to add

this first and

I'm thinking I'm going to try this a different way since I only need two warps I'm going to come I'm gonna put it

over the center Peg

try not to waste so much wildfire

and then I'm just taking it around to the back and I'm gonna just tie them together

make sure it's pretty tight

okay turn that off

now I'm using River colored um three silver cell three needle chain

which I love these and they're going to be the outside warp so it's going to be like a frame

to my beading stuff it's so easy to use and yeah after

my tutorial last week I discovered

I am gonna try to do this just remember too now I'm putting it on

either side of the pegs sorry about that you can see I'm putting it on either side

and I'm wrapping it around here and I have the other one I'm holding we want to make them oh crap

okay we want to make them tie I it doesn't

matter which pay goes on the bottom I'll just keep doing this totally in place I'm going to use one of these

good thing I got two of them here to hold these in place and tighten them up because when I used them last week

on last week's tutorial it really held in place and didn't bother my beading so I'm holding the silver silk tie

and I'm pushing this up against this making sure it's tight and I got that in

place I'm pushing it down so it makes that

tighter so it's nice oops and I made a mistake and went in the wrong warp over here so

I gotta fix that so I want it on either side of the other

two warps

sorry about that foreign

place

open my bead stopper put them in I want to get tied up against this and

down

I end up using two of them just to make sure they stay in place and I think I will

my bead Stoppers aren't flying across the room so I'm gonna

go on and get it all the way down I clip this one on so I'm going to use

this tiny binder clip to keep it in place because I couldn't find one of the

bead Stoppers

okay now it's nice and tight and

okay let's move my camera a little bit

I'm going to move the bead board back

I'm just leaving the rest of that silver silk on there so I can when I trim it I can make it as long a pieces as I can

and then don't worry about the shorter pieces you may get because I've seen some cute designs like somebody wire

wrapped it to some hoops to make look like a little hoop on a pair of earrings

and it was really cute I mean there's all kinds of ways you can use it or you can use it like a bead frame you

know wrap it around okay now

I am going to take

yep two yards so that's about the longest I can go a

wildfire

okay I put a cardboard here I folded it up just to tighten up my strings here I do this with the large wisdom Warriors

sometimes um um so yeah don't worry about if you have

to do that as long as you have tighter strings here I'm gonna make my beaded air about

um six and a quarter long because my clasp area from income one end cap to

the other with the clasp attach is um

is about um um one and a quarter long and I want a

seven and a half inch bracelets so this measures from Peg one peg to the side to

the other um eight and a quarter and size so we want to start about two

inches in so I'd say halfway between the s and

jules's name

okay just want to show you what I did I went ahead and changed it to a black

.008 because when I started this I did not like how the blue was showing up

against this dark river color and um this 0.008 Blends in better

uh I don't mind what the warp still being blue I also want to point out I'm

um with warping they're just days I can't tighten a warp uh very well as far

as the um um wildfire goes so what I did here was

I folded up a large business card in three to raise it and then you know I've

said that my painter's tape is my best friend I take painters tape to the end so it

doesn't ruin the loom and I went ahead and did my fire pot I mean my fire line

and I saved nine inches for the end and I did to get out of my way I just taped

it to the back here so so you can see it because the light's

not on that part so I just like all those extra strings

getting out of my way and I forgot to thread my needle when I was starting this

um so um we're going to start with the the

blue and we're going to do three I mean nine um seed beads in blue first

because this is where I need for the longer bracelet and if I make it too long I don't mind I'll either give it to

somebody or I like I don't mind wearing loose bracelets I don't mind if they go

around flop around their wrist because to me bracelets are and rings are for me to

look at earrings and necklaces are for other people to look at

heard that on a jewelry show on top of it I thought hey that's pretty clever it's true

and I do fidget with my bracelets a lot

and my rings

I like following the designs of them you know when I'm wearing them

find seed beads on here

and I want three seed beads between each Warp

and when did I do oh okay I need to flip that over okay there we go

I got the three seed beads between each one I really should start the other way

on the other side it's just more comfortable for me

and I'm not looking to see if you can see what I'm doing

sorry about that it got flipped to the pattern and I

have the pattern printed in front of me and I can't see if you can see what I'm doing

so with mine I'm going to except for the clear I'm going to put a row seed beads

here like I said I'm trying to start a tiny bit past the halfway mark between the F and

The Jewels part for my sizing okay so now I'm gonna um

glue the McAllen gold and I love these metallic gold beads I wasn't going to

use them but they pop out so much in the design they're Japanese bead they look

like metal but they're glass

and it really makes the design pop so I decided you know because I used it in my prototype and I just love how they pop

so I you know I thought well and maybe I shouldn't you shouldn't use

them though and so you can I got these at my local bead shop

and I actually have them in 15s 11s um

15 11's eights and sixes I even have a couple sizes in the antique gold and I

have all those sizes in the silver too I just love them so much it just adds a

way to add metal to your some of your projects without actually using metal

because sometimes the metal can cut through like the threads and stuff

usually I'll go through this row and lock it in place oh I gotta fix that

but since I got all that thread to tie at the end I'm not going to worry about

it on this design but if you feel safer go through the um you know back and forth twice

I don't know why I'm having so much time getting getting them even between each Warp

so after this one I'm going to do the um

another row of that um Gold Line bead that's a little bit

clearer and then I'm gonna then I'll start the

check glass I'll check back with you with the Czech glass okay just uh so this video doesn't go on

forever okay I got my three rows of seed beads now I'm going to put five runs of fire

polish and I'm going to make the same pattern three spots on the bracelets so the first row you know like when you cut

you might if you have to cut down to make your sizes you know just eliminate rows you know make the design that you

want or the pattern you want but each row is going to contain three of the same color bead

now for the gold I've got the light blue then the gold

so I'll come back when I come to the pattern okay I'm just going to put five rows of seed beads and I'm gonna start

the pattern or five rows of fire polish and I'll start the pattern

okay now I'm going to start the seed bead pattern I'm going to have my um pad right here

I'm going to use the handwritten one like I said you can use the drawing I made adjustments so please make sure you

read the notes on the drawing because I changed one of the colors like um within

the diamond where it shows white which you'd send clear I actually used the like Jonquil which is the Gold Line bead

and then I added a row of beads on either end

just to try to tie all the colors together so um

so I'm going to pick up four of the gold wine rainbow junk all I'm going to pick

up nine of those

three

four five

sex

I'm gonna see if I can scoot all these together and scoop

I got nine here so I'm gonna

um you know before I start getting into the pattern just to save some time I'm

going to make a row of the um well I just made a row of the light rainbow junk wall then I'll make a row of the um

a metallic gold a row of the blue and then a row that um clear

so and I'll be back when I get those rows done and then we'll start um where you know the lines start

changing okay I got the first four rows of the

seed bead pattern done which is all solid colors and then um

now um you know after I do the clear now I'm going to start adding the actual pattern where each row is going to

change but my needle is getting a little curvy I usually get my nylons off pliers

I try to straighten it out some

I do that Until It Breaks or it just doesn't work very well because I was having a little bit of problems

um picking up seed beads so in my um first row

um you know after the four solid colors I'm going to pick up four clear

one two three four one blue

more clear that's pretty good

so what we're doing here is kind of forming a diamond and I'm calling it

um diamond and Fire and Diamond I can't remember which word I use first fire and Diamond

um bracelet because of the fire polish and then the um the pattern that the

seed beads for

I originally was going to make this like a um Chevron but when I was doing the

Prototype and did the Chevron I thought you know I kept looking at it and it would just have the fire polish right in

the center and the rest would be Chevron and I just I kept thinking of that diamond pattern and I just went ahead

and made the diamond pattern and I liked it better okay so now we got first edge of one of

our diamonds now we're going to increase it and then we're going to make three clear

I am because it's probably because it was curvy

my needle was curvy I was having problems picking it up in the tray and it's just one of those days sorry about

that so I laid the seed beads out on me on the mat because I usually can do a

little bit faster from a bead mat

okay so I got three clear three blue three clear

some of you might be able to figure out this pattern um you know just remember you know it

increases and then gets the other side decreases um you know just you know drops off

colors just to form the diamonds and I have each diamond

wall double

okay

he's going to catch on the silver sock the way I'm doing it and

okay see it's kind of falling because I don't think I got it

around the under the warp over the warp that time so I'm gonna just go back through this thing went

back pick it up again

Maybe

gotta watch that so I don't knock those beads off the table

I'm gonna raise it up and make sure I go over each warp when I'm going back

yeah I see the silver of the needle over the warp so I know it's over the

warp

okay now I'm going to do two silver

I mean too clear two blue

one gold in Reverse to Blue

soap I mean to keep going to call these clear silver

now I picked spark I like sparkly I did pick sparkly don't be afraid to change it to what you like like for instance

you can use clear but not used to Rainbow just use the regular clear or you can even make it like a pearly color

make it white or white beads or whatever

pearly be the Pearly the lemonas are really pretty

yeah now I need to pay attention to make sure I'm going over the warps

and I'm going back through

okay now I'm gonna one um clear

two blue

three gold

two blue one clear

foreign

okay you can see where it's starting to form a diamond pattern pretty good

now we're gonna have two blue we're done with the clear right now

two blue two gold

I'm just going to call this yellow okay now

one yellow two gold

two blue

oops oops I gotta my coordinate it so I gotta move my tail

down in my needle

okay go underneath

okay

yeah no so if you don't like a lot of sparkly like there's versions of these

colors that aren't sparkly too that's um I I don't want to mention the

colors too much because you can find your own version Jules has all kinds of colors in her

store now we got one

and then two gold three light yellow

too cold

one blue

I know I always put that in my hand when I there

I'm gonna get the needle back over there

I have to get the most awkward ways

the silver silk looks so delicate but it's really strong

okay okay

now we're down to

we're almost to the center of this pattern two gold

two light yellow then we're gonna go to Blue back to Blue

one blue to let you know we just work our way

backwards again to light yellow to gold

see I had glue on the bead mat I keep forgetting to move my projects off the bead mats while I'm um you know gluing

the ends

okay

this pattern is in the description of the video

and it's also um will be in the blog too

okay now here's the middle row we're going to do one clear I mean one gold

two yellow three blue

and backwards again to Yellow and one gold

[Music]

oh you know what I put in four blue oh I hate that

get rid of the blue maybe I'll let you feed back through the other three

will that work out just fine

line them up

[Music]

come on [Music]

[Music]

okay all right that's the halfway point another pattern new verses so it's you

know like the color is going backwards go this way and once you get to the um

gold and then the light gold then you're going to do this repeat of the CB I mean

these fire polish again and then you're going to pick back up

with the pattern just like it shows here like we did here

I mean when you do the fire polish you ignore these because that's just for the ends um

but do the pattern here again and then you're gonna

um after you do the CB pattern you're going to do this again and um I'll come back

just to keep the video go you know not being like two hours long I'll come back when I um get

towards the end again okay as you can see I um finished the beading

I would you know I had stopped down here and then I just went and reverse the

pattern to here and did my extra rows of solids five fire polish

um and then I did the seed bead pattern again with the the Rose three row four

rows of solid fire polish this is actually going to end up bigger than what I've been for it to do just

remember when you're sizing your bracelet you can cut off the ends and maybe just if you want leave a one row

of seed beads at the end um and yeah if you have an extra small

bracelet you can cut out some of these solid rows and even make a smaller section of fire polish depending on what

size bracelet you have you know wrist you have or who you're making it for

so when I finish this I taught you know um I tied off the end up here

um around the silver silk and then I pass through here because I left nine

inches of cord I passed through here 12 times and then I tied it off again just

for some um support to make sure you know security

and I'm going to do the same thing here this is where I started the pattern I

tied it off when I started and now I'm just going to go under over under over

back and forth like that for 12 times

and this is getting ready for our ribbon crimp and make sure you keep going under over

under over because you start out over you're going to do your last row okay two under over under over three

whoops and we could tighten this up some too

since we're going to be um using a little bit smaller ribbon crimp and my I just want to make this a little

bit tighter sorry this

fell out earlier the one I was using

I just want to hold it in place I don't keep getting loose while I'm doing this

okay I started this and made a boo-boo so I'm going to go ahead and go through I noticed that what I was doing was off

camera so I'm going to explain what I did when I finished this row

um you know and I it's already explained that you know I passed through here 12

times and then when I got to do this and actually I already glued it too when I

went through this end um when I got done with the last you know this is where I started and I had

tied a knot so um just trying to fix that blue bead

okay I kind of not and now um I'll go go going through the under

over I'm going through 12 times you know each way so one two three and I already

did six rows and I realized I was off camera so you just do um each way under

over under over that's seven because I already did

yeah six rows okay under

over under over eight

under over under over nine

under over under over

10.

let me shorten this under

over under over 11.

under over under over 12. okay and I want the rest of this I'm not you know

some for tying off so it's going to be a kind of a tight

tie I love 12 inches I probably should have left um 15 maybe to make it easier

so um I'm gonna tie my knot but remember all this is going to be

glued too together just this is just going to make a little

bit harder to tie my knot okay so I'm going around the silver so I'll

come back that and I wrap it around so the um

um wrap it around so the end of the cord goes inside the

loop I just pull tight see if I'll let me get one more time

and just remember this Knot's going to be hid inside the crimp bin

okay I'm gonna take my

bread burner and then push it in

yeah I got my handy GS hyper cement

and remember don't squeeze this tube

let your hand warm it up

so I'm kind of spreading it back and forth across trying not to get any on the beads

I have cool hands so I get a little bit impatient to warm up come out

so I try to keep myself not to squeeze because you know they're not all come gashing out

okay now I'm going to show you a real quick secret I learned this from Myra Banks

um if you want when you want to put your lid back on if you try to get in the frame for your hyper cement

well I'm trying to get adjustment because it's finally warmed up it keeps coming out hold both at a 90 to a 45

degree angle and as you lift the needle slides right back in

thank you Meyer for teaching me that okay

now um now we can take it off the loom

[Music] I always say my painters tape in case it

can has enough sticky to be reused I'm going to take these off

remember you don't have to I mean I use them for the silver so because I think I can get a tighter warp than that

um now get my handy scissors I could save just

for my Wildfire

I guess I'm not to cut it on this side I don't know why I'm being real careful

there because I don't need all that cord okay now I see I kept the leap on that

because when I trim it down I always have a good piece of the um chain left

because I'll just cut it straight across and that way I can use it for something else

okay now I'm gonna um

I am going to put a little bit of glue on the other side

all right see if that works I want to kind of double this

or maybe make a little extra so that way I can wrap it around because

that's why I'm going to glue over those sweet what thread weaves I did

okay

okay so

let me do another one right now I'm gonna have to trim it down once I get it I just want to make sure I

have enough to work with got this

when it comes to ribbon you know I'm using 1 8 because it usually works out better usually they say you use like a

satin ribbon or a Velvet Ribbon or something um I saw somebody else use something

else so I'm just gonna try it I haven't had a problem so far

because I would think just so long as everything's glued it should be okay

so I'm gonna put some glue across this

and I'm using I I also picked up the gold sparkly because I wanted to kind of blend in with the

clasp

I'm going to lay the weaving without getting on the beads

I'm going to squeezing the slower Circle a little bit

a little bit of more great work to relax

and I'm going to hold on to it um to let it dry some and then I'm going

to do the other end and I'll come back when I get both ends done okay I got everything glued on so I'm

going to trim up against the ribbon um this is a little bit wider oops

that's good so I kind of folded over the ends to hide them in the clasp so

um and like on the other end of the silver silk see I stud the loop so they were cut this much off so I could use

that to wrap up on something I use it as a bead frame and I probably can do it against this so cut your um

cut your cords right up against the ribbon

I have to use two colors different Cutters for this since I'm using both silver silk and the

wire fire see that can end up being a nice piece

too that I can just smooth out so quickly that Smooths out

now I already got the other end done and I

got my clasp attached to this so it gee since I'm using magnetic class if you're using a magnetic glass you might want to

wait so um when you're crimping it instead of using flat nose pliers with

some tool Magic on it some people I've used um nylon gel pliers I used to use

that but they'd slide a lot so I really like it with the tool magic so be careful not to

get it over your beads and then crack in them since they're glass we're breaking them so I do both sides

and I just crimp over it

so for the measuring this is where I'm gonna find it's pretty big

but um just a minute when our mind still has an old

got it yeah there it is okay

so there we go so like I said this would even be cute having this in the center maybe skipping

this all together and maybe making like three sections of the seed bead or in

with some in the middle or maybe like one one to three rows of um

of fire polish in between to break up the sections but this is a good pattern

if you're learning seed beads and how to make a pattern with it but you know you don't want to go with a whole length

so or you can just make this in the middle on these big beads on each side all the way just to get a little

practice with the seed beads okay thank you for joining me with these tutorial this tutorial and I hope you

enjoy making it don't forget the um the pattern and descriptions to help

you out with this bracelet are in the description of this video plus I'll be

including it in the blog which I'll be posting around various places tomorrow so I thank you again for joining me and

have a

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