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Jewel Loom 101 Ginger & Joan Style

January 23, 2023

Welcome to Ginger & Joan's first tutorial. We're taking a different approach to most jewelry making tutorials - Joan Dice is teaching Ginger Branch how to use the Jewel Loom & we want you to learn along! We're making a very easy bracelet for beginners. This 3 part tutorial is done Ginger & Joan style, with the friendly chatter & laughter.

Part 1: Joan is showing Ginger how to warp with hemp. The warping techniques are the same for any material you chose to use for the warps.

Part 2: Joan is showing Ginger how to weave with beads. Ginger is using large beads for a quicker project. But any size bead can be used, as long as the warps are spaced apart correctly for the beads.

Part 3: Joan is showing Ginger how to remove the bracelet from the loom & finish it. Joan also shows the bracelets she was working on as Ginger made hers.

Please shop Joan's affilliate link from the Jewel Loom shop (don't worry about Ginger...we share everything!): https://jewelloom.com?aff=11

Links to similar /same items used in this series:

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hemp & buttons: https://jewelloom.com/collections/accessories?aff=11
Fire polished beads, plus more: https://jewelloom.com/collections/beads?aff=11

The Shield Bead Board is can now only be received when buying the Large Wisdom Warrior. Check out the Crown Bead Board & the SilverSilk Bead Board. A Jewel Loom Bead board will also be available soon. All can be found at the following link: https://jewelloom.com/collections/accessories?aff=11

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Transcript - Video 1:

hi i'm ginger and this is joe

i don't know i think you get a stroke

okay you introduce us okay

i'm just

okay today we're doing something we've

never done before we're doing a tutorial

and we're going to be doing it with them

on the jewel loom and we're going to try

to be serious

you know we can't stay serious all the

time but you know we're we're going to

teaching you and what we're going to be

doing is i thought we're going to take a

different direction from other tutorials

i'm going to be teaching ginger on

camera how to use this

[Laughter]

and i'm putting the um all the links to

like how you can buy

um jewel limb because you there's you

know the original june room baby ulum

and other jewel looms and this thing and

this thing we'll show that another one

when we get the beads off

because i already got it loaded with

beads

[Laughter]

show me show me okay so first of all we

got to get our little buddha bellies or

as um jules calls it her

goddess bellies and we're gonna

press one in into uh

this or this okay here just and then um

well put one end into the one of the

holes okay yeah get the one by your body

and then slightly bend it okay let you

get in there

slightly bend it

and then put the other end in the other

hole

okay and this is to help you with your

warps because um i mean you should

strive for tight warps while you're

putting it on here but sometimes when

mine's just a little bit loose i know

it's gonna tighten up when i take that

rod out

well i'm gonna chase it i tried this

and i called joan and i said look at the

back of mine i said it looks like a cat

has been in the yarn barrel it was all

over the place i had it

all over the place and then i thought

i'm gonna pull

that's the other thing why what probably

happened was when you get a new jewel

loom sometimes you have to slightly bend

one of the ends and you don't want to

bend it too much just very slightly you

know i just took it with my pliers

because it can break can it jump

this can break and i'll tell you more

about that in a second but like just

take your pliers and just slightly bend

the angle just slightly just work on it

opening that slightly bend the angle

you know like right now i got it here

that's perfect for me because i did it

before the show and that way it'll you

know until you get it where it it pops

in and i can't see it

well come on okay let me use my breasts

and just slightly you then that way

work on it so you can get it in and out

easily they can see your cleavage well

it's gonna show

i can't help that

she's jealous

okay so then later on you're gonna be um

you know taking it out after you warp

so um

okay

she's got me laughing too much now

the other thing you want to do is before

you bend it if it's in a cool place like

your house is cool like in the winter

time or something

before you bend it and put the warp in

kind of warm it up with your hands

because a lot of times cracking is done

i mean this is

i can't remember if they say flat

flexible not bendable but any case you

can't it's not made to bend really far

just enough to get that um wire in

what if you stuck it in a pot of boiling

water that would do it no that would

melt that that would work

yeah and it's remember use your little

goddess belly to help bend it you know

so that way you're not bending it too

much i've got a big gutted belly that's

my second booty belly

okay so now next we're going to do is

warping it um and we're gonna today

we're gonna use twine and leather would

work do it just as well but just

remember

if you use leather

don't

take the rod out because if you get use

a nice leather especially like leather

cord usa

it's gonna stretch out as you when you

take the rod out and then you're gonna

end up with a flat loom

so leave that's the only time that i

know of that you leave the rod in so

where did you get this cord down

don't you don't show the brand

[Laughter]

i got it out of my stash

where did you get this chord john jewel

sells these wonderful cords

i just had this in my stash i thought

we'd use

some of this stuff i've had for years

[Laughter]

and she has a lot of different colors

it's probably break when we start

warping it anyway yeah

yeah well

i'm trying to make that yeah

so what i usually do is i unwind a bunch

you don't have to but it just makes it a

little easier on me

so go ahead and unwind the patch that

way you don't have to do it while the

image is a bunch

okay so what we're doing is we're going

to be making three um rows of beads our

bracelet and so whenever uh the easiest

way to know how many warps you want to

make is take how many rows of beads you

want plus one and that's how many warps

you need

because the beads have to go between the

warps okay so since we're using three

rows we're going be um

we're gonna be making um four warps

okay now what

i'm sorry this is like take four and uh

and it's raining here and ginger's

arthritis is really getting to her so

we're trying so i'm going to warp this

for you so you can see what's going on

and ginger will comment and ask

questions okay

so yeah don't go to the other room and

start playing with your phone okay so

you want to um

closest to your body you want to tie a

knot

on this knobby whatever you want to call

i would call it a little tit but that's

i thought of that too but

[Laughter]

there's a little nipple yeah

okay now um i just taped it out of the

way because i don't like things hanging

down when i'm working

we need to make four warps and the way i

came up with four warps is we're going

to use three rows of beads and so just

think of it

through

the number of rows plus one equals the

number of warps

so we got you know three rows of beads

plus one equals

four warps

so i'm just picking a groove to put it

in you know

don't worry about

you know just make sure you have enough

space for the four warps because there's

going to be some space between here

so you want to keep it tight

and put it in here

and then you're going to flip it over

i'm going to eyeball this just a minute

i'm trying to make sure i'm in the

camera sorry

now

okay now i'm going to flip it over again

i'm going to put it around the knobby

make sure you don't get on that um

wire

and we determined that the um when we

were um

are you on the wire you're on the wire

yeah we determine there's seven space i

don't want to go in the seventh space

when i put the bead up to the um grooves

one two three four five six seven

and try to keep your warps tight

one two three four five six seven

and once you get used to this you could

start eyeballing it

and um

you know i mean i i

counted forever until i got used to

seeing it and every time you put it

around that knobby on the back i put it

on the knobby each time so you can see

how i'm warping it around them knobby

so we're going a little bit slow here

because like i said we're not used to

showing things on camera

joan is really a whole lot better

showing this stuff than me i'm just kind

of long for the ride

but i do want to teach her so she can do

things on her own and she you know she

is learning because we have already done

this like four or five times our very

first video we didn't like the quality

of it so we're redoing it

so see now i got four warps

i got four warps now yeah

and um

i bet you could play a guitar on that i

could play you want to try it

it does sound like a tune when you're

using like wildfires so yeah yeah it's

more tweeny

so okay so now um

can you do me a favor

right never mind

i cut the string off to get it out of

the way because i don't like

pre-measuring when it comes to warps

now i'm turning it over

and i like

wrap it around the knobby

and then i'm going to feed this through

underneath

and i'm going to tie knot in it

i like doing it a second time too

i'm checking my warps to make sure now i

got out of place just a minute

they shouldn't have

but i saw that one shift them

then what i do then i just like doing

this for my own security you don't have

to do this

and then i just tie a knot here too

you know that wasn't wildwood flower i

was playing i was playing that song from

deliverance

[Laughter]

okay so now you could see that um now

the next thing we need to do

is um

put your little um pitch the jewel loom

to your buddha bailey

and then you know you don't want to bend

too much but enough to get that

if it won't come out easily one way turn

it the other way

i hold on to the warps while i'm doing

this too

and then just snap it out

now you got a nice tight um

loom to work with

and now

so we're going to go on to the other

part okay

okay so that was warping um and we're

we're doing this in three uh a series of

three videos the next step is um

oh first we gotta remove the rod i

forgot that's part of the warping uh oh

so now you wanna remove the rod

let me grab mine

once again you want to use your little

goddess belly

and then you just slightly turn it

i mean you don't want to bend it too far

your warps are going to go out of place

and then you remove your rod

i'm going to bend to that

just slightly not a lot see your warps

are okay because your warps can move if

you bend it too much okay okay i did it

i did it

okay so now our next video is going to

be on um

looming we just figure i mean on weaving

the beads and we're using big beads i'm

using like eight millimeter she's using

ten millimeters so we can make it faster

did you fall asleep or get bored as she

if i get bored i'm going to sit on the

couch while she tells me and then she

tells me

[Laughter]

we'll see you in our um the second part

of this video um bye thanks for joining

Transcript - Video 2:

hi this is ginger and joan again i'm here for part two of our um jewel loom

series just to remind you this is our first time doing a tutorial

so i hope you enjoyed the the last one

okay so now our next day aka warping for a dummy

[Laughter] um our next step we're going to be doing is um

actually beating the warps since we already walked we're going to be the warps now there are some things you're

going to need you're going to need um jewel loom needles can you see that

but there i got a couple suggestions i don't know if they still make these i found them in my stash

big eye needles on big eye needles because i'll use when i'm not using a really wide um make not

a real wide brace that i use which i don't have anymore in here but the small big eye needles too

so when i saw the long ones that are longer than the jewelry needles i thought i'm going to try that today

ginger's using the jewel loom needles and then another thing is um

ginger is using what the black wildfire which goes with her no not smoke

well smoke oh yeah okay well anyway she's using the wildfire and i ran out of red wildfire and i

didn't realize it so i'm not going to show you what i'm using

who's that because we're our beat along girls and sometimes we have to cheat to get things

done because no stores here sell it i have to order it on the red line have you ever used

fishing line that's what this is [Laughter]

not far from here remember i told you you bought some too yeah

okay so um so we're going to get ready to get started so just a minute and we're going

to flip over to the other camera

okay ginger do you have your needle fit threaded yes i do

okay what you want to do is um what we did was um we took um

we took our um thread and um you know we took an arm length and i

always do like plus four for four inches four to six so i have a

tail later which i'll get on my way i'll show you so then we've

threaded it through and we're going to take one end

and you want to tie it the end onto here tie it

tie it tie the end yeah so and make make sure you have at

least a four to six inch tail i mean there's a reason for it i'll show you you know later that's towards the end

try it one night or two

i do too i mean but you can do one but i do too just to make sure it's tight because it's gonna kind of hopefully go

into the um oh gosh and plus it's gonna hide since you got black on black

black on black i want my baby back

if gray was gray see this is what i'm doing just do it like this

i'm having a hard time see my fingers i tell you what my fingers just

don't work hardly anymore i will be you know different people use

different techniques i'm showing you what i like to do because um

like when i learn different techniques i usually watch more than one person do them because i usually find ways that

i like that's easier one way than another

oh there's one

okay i got two now what okay so then what i do next is i take

just to get the tail out of the way for right now i tape it onto the back

you know so not getting in my way

okay so just wrap it around to the back and tape it on there

i lost my needle lord okay now what okay now now we're ready

to bead okay so just pick up three beads well no

first you put your um first we're gonna have to pray

okay first um we're going to be working left to right which i forgot to tell ginger let's move

this down because we want the first row to line up with this hole for your size show it show it

well i had to line it up see this is where see the whole ginger needs about uh we're figuring about six and

three-fourths bracelet yeah and so ginger's um

is going to line up about near this hole so that's where she's going to start and so you pick up

put your needle underneath the um warps to the other side

okay so this might be easier to have for you to have some

beads on the other side okay okay so the

wait you've got mine hooked in with yours look here

we got her we got her our fishing line and their

can you get it down i just wanted to make sure it's getting out the right way

i'll have to uh i'll have to hang it okay there it went there it went oh my god

[Laughter] so instead of warping for dummy we're going to do

beating for dummies being for dummies okay so now i'm going to put

my three beads

no that's not it if you can see the holes just poke at the holes and slide it through what is

it three beads i'm gonna stick on here yeah three beads you have four warps so you can only use

three beads because they gotta go between the warps

okay now what okay now

you're gonna slide them all the way to the end all the way to the end

okay okay now this now i'll show you i have

to fix my oh i know how you do this

now i'm gonna stick it okay yeah you've done

a little bit like this before yeah so you stick the beads in between

um the warps and then you feed your needle back in from the other side from where you started

oh i gotta go under that end of that warp each time no no you go above the warp so you make sure

your needles see see how you can see the needle above the warps in between yeah yeah yeah

make sure they could see it on yours see you you can see the silver part in

between so you know that the needle's above the warps and you want to you go underneath the warps the first time and

then above the warps the second time so that way it locks it into place

okay otherwise if you go underneath again you're just going to be threading your um

your beads and the beads because y'all see it i wish i'd gotten another color thread so everybody can see it now we're going

to go in under it again okay now what i do yeah but now i do something different

i like locking my first row into place so i go underneath that first row again

and go through the beads go through the beads while you're going underneath the warps

this helps meet my beads from sliding around

my gosh it's a good idea

because otherwise my beads were sliding all around when i was trying to do it you know before

uh-oh what happened here

okay so is this the second time going through yeah but then there's a mess right there

at that end oh

you got wrapped around now give me your needle get it over here so that they can see it

she had it wrapped around the loom so we're just trying to untangle it

this is the part that i get my phone and i go in there and sit down on the chair so

some reason this is really loose

can we see it okay now

i'm just feeding it back through i'm going to put it through again i want to tighten it because that's really loose

and i don't know why it's in the first row and you want to make sure that the strings are hugging

the you know your ends when you wrap around they're hugging the um your warps because but don't you think

the first row is the most important it it holds it in place and that's why i

like you know strengthening it so it holds it locking it in place

because otherwise i was having problems with it sliding all up and down when i was weaving you

know the whole bead thing yeah if i can lock the first row in place

or it is in it you've got it tangled in your fishing line again shut up

it's tangled in my flyers too you know if we were getting paid for

this it'd be a different story this is ginger and joe

that's our best but you know our stuff turns out really pretty

okay now my fishing line i forgot to get it out of there let me just unstring

take it off the hold that i think we caught a carp

we caught a loom with your fishing mine

yeah now pull it off it okay

now back on that yeah i'm just gonna lock it in place so i did this twice just to get the

beads locked in place

thank you joan okay another way you could have done it which we're going to get at the end but when you have smaller beads to lock into

place you could use that tail right away and to lock them into place okay below now what

now we're going to do the second row we go under it uh-huh

okay and then i'll put three beads on

uh-huh

okay see everything's the the strings going under it now we're going to go over it

well this big i kneel is a little bit too flimsy i'm going to have to switch the jewelry needle

okay i had to keep on threading it jules jules did this for a reason

i know and you know me and you do the same thing we gotta try it our way first to

see now this is going to kind of hang around

so if then i go in under are you just going that one that one you

go under across when you pick and then you go over when you're coming back this way yeah but i'm not going to tack it

down anymore this is nice you could start your next row okay then i go under

put three on i'm just not good at teaching because you're just messed up you're doing good

i mean well i've tried to work too it's just you and your fishing line you

[Laughter]

now this is getting easier the first true rose i thought i was going to have a two row um

bracelet now i even make them one row the same

way so it's two warps in one row and i made a really cute um

charm bracelet that way so i had the beads and then um jewel sells these really cute charms

that you can paint or color you know with like aren't they yeah and i colored those and i did it for um

with flowers and i um made up you know with

and i hung them on there and it was really cute so i had a charm bracelet that i made on the loom

that was neat okay now see my my what's this is it's called string

what is this called wildfire wildfire okay

uh my wildfire and i'm using the six pound

you can use four pound and that's what i did one yeah she's using the point zero zero six inch

i couldn't tell you what the difference in the poundage is except it i guess the only thing i could figure out it'll

catch a six pound fish without it so strong i'll catch a six pound fish without breaking is the only thing i can

figure out but don't quote me on that oh my god you know you don't catch fish with

wildfire wildfire is originally a fishing line was it really yeah

see that's how that company started see we're not in wires and stuff we know something new every day

martha stewart said that she said you need to to learn something new every day she

ought to have learned how not to get into prison didn't she

can you imagine though why if he's watching this he's probably shaking his head at us

yeah i have to tell him we want to do a tutorial with him oh lord he come running the other way

he does anyway but he sees us especially ginger we're talking about white white yeah from being alive and

famous we love him today

these are buddy [Laughter] [Music] i hope you all see what i'm doing

you know what

wonder how many inches i need for my my bracelet right here

inches of these beads

well i was thinking six and a half to six and three-fourths can i tell them where i got my beads

or no no

i got mine out of my stash i have no idea where they came from

you know like if anybody else sometimes you have beets in your stash for like 10 years i don't remember we got it

it's like i'm getting ready to make 16 bracelets for my aunt and um

and i told her some of them some of the seed beads i need i said i bought those

eight years ago and i've never used them since don't worry about it

that's crazy make 16 bracelets but if you're doing it for a family

member i figure if i make one or two a day it won't seem so bad um okay well i'm gonna

call you in the wait and see how well i'm not gonna start him until after you go home

go back to georgia

i'm not watching what i'm what i'm recording here so i hope you all can see this

if not tune in to jewels and shooting

well some of this we're not going to show the whole thing oh we're not going to do it no not you beating all the way we'll pick up towards the end i'll chop

part of it out you know because that's a boring part how much of this do i need um for you

well we're gonna have to measure cause i don't know about ten like on this one it was like how many

rows but it's eight millimeter here's the ten millimeter one two three four

60 beads can i show this to everybody look at this this is jones that she made

we did the i did the ending differently than what we're going to do it i think but there's all different kinds

of ways you could do endings um and i figured this is like the easiest braid to start ginger out with

the loom oh yeah so pretty

okay so here i'm going back again i like experimenting on endings coming up with different kinds

my back's starting to hurt i think i might let joan finish this

i'm getting the hang of it now this is fun

so um that's at 16 rows we'll check and see how long yours is or even 15 rows just

to see okay 16 or 15 one that one's four five six seven eight

here let's see how long it is right now it

okay

yeah that's about three little three and a quarter so i got about three

you got about halfway

so what's the funniest thing that ever happened to you can you say it on air

i'm sure i got a lot of clean ones and

um well

one time back in the 90s when i was younger my girlfriend and i

took some of my clothes to the salvation army box

and i dumped them all in and then she says

oh my gosh my niece could wear some of those clothes

so wait a tucky dunk though yeah so and it was night time it was at a shopping center parking lot

so i said now i only weighed like 100 pounds

and i said well stand here and grab my ankles

and i'm gonna you just told me you just hold me

and i'm going to get that stuff out now it was darkest pitch in there

so she was holding me and i was throwing the stuff back out

and about this time these two old women like my age now

was coming down through there and thought that we were stealing so they parked their car right there

and she let my feet go oh no so you're inside i'm inside that box

and we're right on a creek and i thought and we've you know notorious for rats down there and i thought oh my god

i am going these rats are in here so when i finally jumped out

i jumped out of my out of that box and got in my car [Laughter]

and i chased those poor old women now i know i wasn't gonna do nothing to them

but i just wanted to scare them like they scared me and they went flying

they went fine they were scared to death they thought you're coming after them yeah yeah

i mean i was like 24 or 25 years old but um

don't you think that my wrist is well i measured seven inches but i know

i've measured seven inches before but you keep saying your wrist is eight inches well total so you know the beads are

going to be so it'll be six inches but since these are bigger beads we need to make a little bit bigger you know longer

so i think if you do six and a half inches

okay so warps aren't going to be right against your skin it's going to be raised up because of the bigger beads that's why i'm saying you want it a

little bit longer you know just like when we're okay i'm stretchy breath okay let me ask you this

the where's that where's that bracelet you had measure

i i measure that well because you're not going to macaroni measuring macrame too

am i going to macrame this no you're going to use you're going to use one of these

she's going to use one of these oh

well total that's about six inches okay so i'm saying six and a half just

because these you know they're not so this is gonna see how the warps not really against you well yeah mine but i

guess this is like four and a half what did i just say that was six

yeah sure but now you're talking about rats i had

a dream last night about rats oh lord

i don't know so we're just saying i forget why all my family was in a hotel

and i went down to visit my youngest brother and his wife and there's other people in there

their room was infested with rats and they kept staying there

and so and there was even like a nursery school on the other side of the wall but they

were it was the cleanest nursery school you ever saw but that room was messy with rats so i went off about my way and i came

back a couple weeks later and they're still staying around but it's the cleanest room you ever looked at they had to get rid of the rats themselves

i don't know what brought that where you got that stupid dream on did you eat before you went to bed

sometimes when i eat right before i go to bed i'm i have a

crazy crazy dream and especially if i eat chocolate before i go to bed i've

noticed i had a dream about nela you know jules

baby daddy and i wrote him the next day and he and

it was really weird i dreamed he was doing a workshop with um flat mesh and he was weaving

clothes with them can you imagine expensive that workshop

would be because your dreams are awfully detailed but they are i always have the most detailed dreams

i mean now my my threads come off now i'm going to tell y'all something if

you've got if you have a hard time um getting your thread through that eye if

you'll take your flat nose and just flatten it flatten it just a little bit

it will go this it will go through like a charm

i still need bright lights for it to go through so like if i'm working the living room just with my little lamp i come in here

where i have bright lighting to thread my needle again see how

i don't know if you can see it see how flat that is

i think the only way i can do it

i am lord i watch it not go anywhere

now okay so now i'm taking this center

you haven't seen this but i'm making actually kind of a replica of jules love

cuff she did a shorty video of it online on

youtube you know like 15 seconds long that thing got

over 38 000 hits in a debt in a 24-hour period and then she looked at the

analytics of it and it was all men so we're thinking can you imagine what they probably thought it was the love cup

[Laughter]

i hate it when i get that okay one more row and i'll have six

i got a bunch of rows to go but we'll stop when you're gray

when my husband goes on motorcycle trips joe comes joan comes down to see me

and i'm working at the thrift store now i'm oh what am i gonna do when you're at the

thrift store that week you can come down help me cook i'm in the kitchen

and it only took two days though yeah three oh you do three days

but um i find the best stuff down there in that thrift store

oh my gosh and that's it some of the thrift stores around here they have the prices of antique stores you know like

furniture and stuff yeah and then i go down to her house and we go to the thrift store oh my gosh they're so cheap

i want to take a u-haul to buy some of that in the really nice furniture for dirt cheap it's unreal we've got

two high-end communities that's in the gated communities that's in the

uh mountains and so one day a week is one of them and they take the truck up there and have

deliveries i mean that pick up stuff okay now i've got my six right here okay well i can switch over to my other loom

okay okay so now what we what you need to do then

i swear i think it's gonna be too big but maybe not look at it

maybe not in the class okay let's go for it okay you can fix it if it's messed up

there's different ways i do it if i'm i've made mine too short before yeah and but now some of yours

like they're loose do you want them tighter yeah they are no i'm fine they don't fall out

we're doing okay go ahead and lock the last row in place like we did go underneath through and then over the top

and through i just like at least lock in the first and last and then i'll show you how you can end it well you did

pretty good let's see this is one we'll fix that with this thread quit aggravating me okay

so i'll keep doing this while you're fixing that

when you make me you know i love you

okay i'm walking it

okay okay now i've locked it okay now wow

tie it at the end like you did down there

i can take my needle off cana yeah if you want to then you have to put it back on well no i don't wanna do that

is this maybe i need you want me to do it for you and show you what i'm talking about

yeah let's um and then i'm going because i'm going to have you go through some needles to hide we're switching places

you finish it off john no yes i won't i don't want to pull with it you do okay

so all i'm doing now is just tying it

see i took the needle underneath and then through the loop here to make a knot

i mean others do a lot nicer than me but this is the way i do it

and now i'm going to i want to hide some of the thread

and i'm gonna come through here i just gotta make another knot up against there but you

know this just straight strength

come on

see i'm trying to be nice usually when i make jewelry a cuss

i think

so i just feed it through a few rows that way you know it's not going to come undone you can see i did a couple knots

too um

wait just gonna let me do this okay

yeah that's good that's through three rows um and can you give me my blue scissors in

that little box yep talk about those scissors joan

these oh yes because jules is looking for a pair of scissors these are oscar fisker scissors and to

me they almost look like little kids scissors but uh a lot of bead shops sell them as

wildfire fireline scissors we got them for five dollars and i they've gone up a tiny bit in

price but this is i mean so i imagine any fiskars would work but these are awesome

and plus they fit in my tool kit you know i could easily throw them in my little bag with my wildfire

so i just trimmed off right against the bead and now we gotta do the other end with

that tail i told her to take

so if you ever want to be friends with ginger you got to know how to finish her jewelry

i'm adhd

i can only sit for so long okay

so this one was kind of droopy so i'm going to use the tail to try to fix it

so you always want to try to pull your line so you know when you don't want like a

little um sticking out you want it to hug the warps but you know you don't want to get too tight but

you want to do it tight enough so uh the wildfire hugs the warps

okay this is short oh gosh i'd never be able

to do that practice

you'd make a good surgeon [Laughter]

you let me say that next time yourself you can tie that liver right up

and say oh i supposed to paddle liver i've got a kid in here

and what you could do is get my little burner out of that box it's probably underneath those bags here

it is don't look at this burner don't look at it it's another brand

i've got three burners but this is the one i have near me

you could use a cigarette lighter couldn't you yeah but i'm always afraid of burning the warmth

there so i just made a little ball so it won't get untied

okay so that's um this is

i don't know if i have it on screen yeah you do i can okay so this is um

uh we got it all um threaded and now um the next step is going to be finishing off taking it off the loom and

um adding on our closures so that will be part three the our final part

so um you know i'm gonna mix these up

ginger was talking about our little bead board look at our little bead board isn't it so cute

jules has those for sale and doesn't she yeah

and on jilloom.com they're um they're 19.99 and she has this little

thing you could stick your needles in i know when you like you have to walk away for a few minutes just stick your knee

needle in this little cork it's really pretty so and it actually goes with one of her

other limbs though how much are they they said 1999 1999

1999 is there five easy payments

you have to talk to jill's about that but i don't think so like qvc is just five easy payments

i got my smart watch for five easy payments and i'm putting links in the looms and just to let you know that i do

um help jules and i do have an affiliate link so that's what i'm gonna use on there

so you get a kickback yeah

the only way anybody don't want to give me a kickback that was jill's idea yeah that's good so order from these

um those links yeah what do you get five dollars each time i

don't know i don't think you did no not five dollars i'm just kidding there's a percentage i just don't know what it is

so uh okay so um we'll see you next time then we'll be

right back bye

Transcript - Video 3:

welcome back to um the um jillian's

beginner lesson with ginger and joan

ginger joe

questions for dummies

if you can't make a bracelet from our

instructions there's something wrong

with you

yeah yeah

anyway uh in this part three we're going

to be showing how to finishing off your

um project um which is just a simple

large bead um

bracelet

and so we'll be taking it off the loom

and then um showing how you can finish

it off we're using 10 millimeter beads

and look here

yesterday our hair looked so good we

were talking about this and then it

stormed last night we both got natural

curly hair look at this mess

look at this mess we're hoping

we're hoping it looks good a minute

later yeah it looked great yesterday

no it's not frizzy but earlier but

there's something i mean this is it

is really curly oh i know it currently

on top but i've been out in the rain but

the thing about it is you can't do

nothing with natural curly hair so it

just is what it is

yeah it is

at least

joan is going to

finish this off because if you can see

my hands i've got

osteoarthritis and with this rain

i'm just i can't do it so okay

um now i'm going to show you how i take

things off the loom and the reason why

i'm showing you this way

is because you know if you have a larger

wrist you're using that more room on the

loom

then um

and which means it shortens these

strings

and that means you have less to work

with for whatever you want to do to

finish it off so i'm going to finish

this one off with a button

this is what the button looks like

and so

okay so what i do

is i ain't tie the knot so i could have

longer

because when i start cut normally most

people just cut these but then i find i

don't have as much room to work with you

know when i want to use a button for a

bracelet

um there's been times that like when

i've used leather or something like that

i'll use i've made um

barrel sliding barrel knots and barrel

knots that i would um glue onto the

string to hold them in place so i didn't

have to use any of these

but and this one i've already tried it a

few times

i'm just going to untie the knot

has anybody taught you this would you

just figure this out i like figuring out

things myself that what what will work

for me because i've done oh even like

macrame ends onto rings so i could use

um well i guess this isn't going to work

so we'll do the best we can i'm just

going to go ahead and cut it as close as

i can

probably because i knotted it

yeah this was the original um that

ginger knotted

so now i'm gonna look at it

i just want to make sure

sorry for the pauses we we're having to

watch this to see if it um everything

keeps showing

but

um didn't take

uh camera production in high school did

we jump

so the first thing we want to do is

gently i mean you want it tight but you

want to gent gentle you don't want to

make these so tight that it starts

pushing the beads down because then your

beads are going to be all warp you know

this part will be all warpy

so i'm tying the ends right now

yeah see what i'm doing i see everything

you're doing okay

we're supposed to get snow here saturday

one to three inches

last i heard it was just possible

flurries well i hope so cause i'm

leaving for jasper saturday with my

granddaughter and dog

tom

how's old tom doing he's a mess

he's

heart poodle and part too and i

tell you what

he can look at you like you have no

sense whatsoever

he's full of shits yeah

okay so i tied the ends now i want to

figure out which part is going to go

into um the button now a lot of people i

just want to show you a lot of people

put like two strands in one buttonhole

and two strands and another one

and they'll tie a knot and have like a

little fringe that's not me or ginger

ginger hates tassels and that's a

tassley look

so what i'm gonna do is i'm going to see

if i can

take this

and feed them through one buttonhole and

then back through the other

you need a

little needle or something

that's why i got these pliers here yes i

can grab them

okay

so i just now i got

these in it might be easy to try and

twist it to try to hold them together

just so you can feed it in

now i'm feeding it into the other

buttonhole

i like that a lot better

and then what i'm gonna do

and this is where glue is your best

friend

i'm gonna get um

some cord here oh here's some no let me

get you some glue

i got blue over there

i think i did it for you well i won't

use it until the very end but yeah thank

you it's right next to that

black box

so i'm going to just tie a knot here

because this is going to be kind of

hidden anyway

and this is our favorite glue

g is hypocement but i'll use whatever is

closest

yeah

except for don't

except for uh

except for um

super glue on stretchy bracelets oh my

lord oh my lord we've got to take a

break and let me just explain this to

you about what we're seeing just real

quick i'm going to be tying not just

watch me while she talks

okay

decided to do a stretchy bracelet and we

were

uptown knoxville and we were sitting at

the table and everything and so

we put all of our beads on

stretchy

and

glued it

with

super glue super glue well we didn't

know that super glue

ate up the stretchy so don't never do

that

and we had all of a sudden i put it on

my arm and those beads went everywhere

the restaurant was really crowded

and so we were picking them up well i

counted them joan went to the bathroom

i counted them and came up with one

short

so and we just had just enough beads so

i looked under the table and there was a

priest sitting right next to a swear i

swear on the stack of bibles this is

true

a a priest was sitting next at the next

table and under his foot was my bead

so i got down by

195 pounds of me got down on my hands

and knees

and

and i thought oh god please don't let

the priest know that i'm underneath his

foot and i grabbed it i grabbed that

bead but getting up

was another story well about that time

here come joan and she said what are you

doing i said i found my life's bead

put your hand here yeah so i come out of

the restroom seeing let's see

see it's not too big you're worried

about that yeah so i'm going to make a

knot here and then another knot that it

can go in between yeah okay

but that was our story and sticking to

it we just

so we learned a very valuable medicine

and uh so don't never use

super glue

with stretchy cord yeah so we did write

wyatt and

white white right white guy i can't talk

today and he said that uh really rubber

c mint's the best for stretchy cord and

the second is the hypo mat yeah

so what i'm trying now is to tie a knot

here because her bracelet is a little

bit too small

she was worried about being too big

yesterday and we didn't add any more

rows but when we put it on it's a little

too small what are we going to do about

we're going to do a little stretch thing

to make it work

it's just a design thing sometimes

could you couldn't you put that knot

just a little bit farther up well what

i'm doing is putting this knot at the

bottom then we're going to do another

knot

towards the end oh okay

there's always a way in here yeah

wait here not the watch

see now i could put the knot there

okay

ta-da

and ginger doesn't like tastely look so

this won't be too much of a tassley look

for her

i don't know there's something about

that and gypsy rose lee

with tassels

hanging down off her boobs you know i

mean there's just something that

which i'll do yeah

john's got the boobs and she's got the

tassels

yeah i've done it on well not on

facebook live on a zoom call

[Laughter]

okay so i'm just now feeding it because

i want to make sure the button can go

through this

let's try it before i tighten everything

now will that um hemp cord give any

i don't know

because i've never worn a lot of hemp i

just started using hemp when i started

using the jewel loom i just started

doing looming about a year ago so i've

used a bunch of different types of

material

yeah that's a lot better oh that's

fantastic and so then the last step i do

this for security

i knot all my um

i glue all my knots

so i just stick that little bigger right

in there and give it a little make sure

that each of these strands coming out

has some glue on it

is it coming out

it is now

that stuff stinks don't it

i can see how people get tired

now you're going to start sniffing it no

i'm not

i'm 70 years old i don't want to have

causes of brain damage but i've got

enough brain damage uh but i'm 70 years

old i want to live just a tiny little

bit longer

and she's already telling me to come

down to her house with a u-haul for a

funeral

you got to get all those beads and all

those tools out of there i tell you

[Laughter]

that for her husband

yeah gary said tell joan come down here

at the u-haul get all this mess out

[Laughter]

oh lord

something that costs five hundred

dollars gary

sell for 50 cents 50 cents get it out

get it out

so i have to sell it and then split the

profits with them

no you don't

just keep the profit

i hate sticking that back in i did too i

can't hardly get it in there sometimes

i i had a clean next year i was wiping

it with a kleenex

can you get it

can you get me a paper towel over there

yeah

in the meantime while i'm waiting for

the paper towel i'm going to trim some

of this um knots off

you know just to clean it up and then

we'll see what

if ginger likes what she likes on there

what she doesn't i'll trim it off some

okay

okay thank you you're welcome

okay now let's put it on you

this is the first time i know ginger

wants a tight bracelet i know it usually

i like them i can't stand anything

confining or tight or

boots or anything like that oh i love

that joan now let's see about the

tassley look are these okay or

or do you want them shorter no it's all

right okay sure yeah

it's pretty oh i love it

it's a another ginger and joan

collaboration oh yeah

okay

just a minute we're going to flip around

again

well that's it for our tutorials um but

uh yeah look at ginger's bracelet on

isn't that pretty i love this and see i

like mine that kind of hangs down like

this you know i just wanted to thank

them

and

while she was making that i was making

uh you know i mentioned earlier in the

series

and

this um i want to show you well first of

all remember i said that made a shorting

video 15 seconds

[Music]

in that one day

i did my version what i think they

thought it was

[Music]

beetle on shade everybody

baby

and so i um i used some of her plain um

buttons and i um

did it in uh paint them in gold and put

hearts on them

because i couldn't find anything that

would go you know good and i thought

that was real pretty so

and that's the love calf my version

i hope you all enjoyed this oh also

you know i we showed it upside down

before but this is the um

the b board that's in

jewel shop

you know the cork for the needle

and um

in the book of esther

and it says perhaps this is the moment

for which you were created isn't that

beautiful and we created

[Laughter]

so that really strengthens you as you

beat too so you might consider getting

that um you don't put the links in the

in the video

description but i enjoyed this didn't

you yeah i sure did we always

[Laughter]

sometimes

oh well then you if you have to you can

head home monday yeah just to have it

you heard your granddaughter still have

a few days with horses i know it she

rides horses

okay yeah ginger planned on staying uh

for 10 days but her doc her

granddaughter is out of school and she

wants to go down and play with the

horses yeah

my daughter-in-law takes care of two

barns so they ride trails and i never

thought that she would like anything

i think this is fire polished beads

eight millimeter but i'm not positive

hold up your your little wooden thing

real

so they can see it

i'm not that best at painting

where is it

describes us

okay well until next time

it's been a pleasure and i hope you did

learn something from this

and it's get your jokes sign it up love

you guys

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