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Mix it Up with Beads, Wire & the Jewel Loom - Inspirations with Jewels

April 05, 2024

Learn to create a pendant on the Jewel Loom or Baby Jewel Loom, using wire & mixed sizes of beads. Using the extra wire on the warps, Jewels also shows how to create decorative swirls & coils, using the Coiling Gizmo. She also shows how to attach a unique way to attach the pendant to SilverSilk capture chain. You may even consider tucking the ends of the capture chain into coils, for another look, before wrapping the wire ends aroun the capture chain.

If you would like to replicate this pattern, follow the pattern below & look closely at the photo on this page:

Row 1: 1 - 4mm Green Fire Polish, 1 - Long Bugle Bead, 1 - 4mm Green Fire Polish
Row 2: 1 - 4mm Dark Fire Polish, 1 - Green Tile, 1 - Citrine Tile, 1 - Green Tile, 1 - Citrine Tile, 1 - Green Tile, 1 - 4mm Dark Fire Polish
Row 3: 1 - 4mm Dark Fire Polish, go through the bottom holes of the 5 tile beads listed in second row, 1 - 4mm Dark Fire Polish
Row 4: 1 - 4mm Green Fire Polish, 1 green bicone, 1 - 11/0 seed bead, 1 green bicone, 2 -11/0 seed bead, 1 green bicone, 1 11/0 seed bead, 1 green bicone, 1 - 4mm Green Fire Polish
Row 5: 1 - 4mm Dark Fire Polish, 1 - Green Tile, 1 - Citrine Tile, 1 - Green Tile, 1 - Citrine Tile, 1 - Green Tile, 1 - 4mm Dark Fire Polish
Row 6: 1 - 4mm Dark Fire Polish, go through the bottom holes of the 5 tile beads listed in second row, 1 - 4mm Darkl Fire Polish
Repeat rows 1 to 6 twice.
Finish by repeating Row 1.

Jewels created this project to show techniques & to answer some of the questions beginner Jewel Loomers have.

Watch the tutorial below:

Links for products used in this project:

Jewel Loom YosiBear Pendant Bead kit (only $12, plus shipping in U.S.A.): https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewel-loom-school-live-product-showcase/products/jewel-loom-big-bear-pendant-bead-kit?aff=11
Jewel Loom, Baby Loom, & accessories: https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewel-loom-original-baby?aff=11
Coiling Gizmo Deluxe Winder: https://jewelloom.com/products/coiling-gizmo-deluxe-winder?aff=11
Wildfire: https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewelry-making-buttons/wildfire?aff-11
Jewel Loom Needles: https://jewelloom.com/collections/jewelry-making-buttons/beading-needles?aff=11
SilverSilk Capture Chain: https://www.silversilkonline.com/capture-chain
Artistic Wire: www.beadalon.com

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Transcript:

welcome welcome welcome I see everyone lining outside in

the hallway waiting for the jewel loom School Maria I hate to tell you but

Claire beat you Claire beat you to the front door

today you better figure out how to take your take your spot back in

line oh my goodness what a beautiful beautiful day welcome to JW Loom School

live I'm Juliana the inventor of the Jew Loom the blue one right here and I'm

gonna actually be working with the jewel loom today so I love love love warping

with artistic wire and especially on the plastic loom um because of the grids and

everything I do it on the wood as well but I'll kind of go with a smaller um

gauge WI maybe like 26 versus the 24 although I have done 24

as well you just have to be more careful when you're on on the wood Looms on those grids oh my goodness Cynthia and

um it's funny how Joan can be everywhere I see her I see her real name

Jennifer is here hey I want to give a huge shout out to all of the

bellacon attendees that might be peeking in here I want to make sure that we show

them a lot of love these are people that are attending the virtual bellacon event

they are Eileen Hall's Community um and so we want to give them

a big delicious hug I know a couple of them have actually joined the free Facebook group and so make sure that um

you know if you're in there and they're asking questions that you um lend a

helping hand lots of yummy people hi Zach hi

Jennifer very very cool oh I love it Melanie um and Betty and Jane everyone's

hello hello hello hey I do have a special

[Laughter] guest I

Eileen Hull and I are going to be together so listen we have been industry besties like forever I was thinking

about it earlier like we literally I think pretty sure we have known each other for at least 20 years so we used

to work um at sizzix together and eileene designed a well she has just

designed a plethora of products but um die cuts and so she's really well known

for her die cuts that are cut out of really great um like mat type board and

so they make journals and um one of her projects for Bellon is like a little sewing chest and she's made campers and

all kinds of cool stuff and of course um she's super heavy into the paper crafting world but a lot of folks over

there are stitching and doing different things as well and so I'm really

excited I'm sure elen's just gonna be really happy when she sees that I put

her on a I was like well she's got to be here to

say hi to her friends okay so here's the new Eileen

Hall Loom all right and so if you ordered your Workshop kit for the Bellon

event this is the new loom and it's so so cool eileene loves it she really does

and it comes with an awesome comb so when we're working with fibers or anything like that and her little needle

I said what do you want on your needle like what's your jam what's your saying

um and she says well how about it's not perfect but that doesn't bother me I was

like I love that so here's her little baby needle that comes with her comes with her Loom and so yeah so people um

the loom is up on the website already ready even if you are not a bellicon

attendee you can purchase a loom if you want uh just really um need to make sure

that you understand you're not that's not getting you into the bellicon event okay there's not a workshop that comes

with the loom if you're not in you know registered for the bellicon event okay I

could just like keep I should have like figured out how to somehow make a stand so that eileene

just could be here the whole entire whole entire time anyway girlfriend great to see

you we're going to be together in Texas um just in a couple of weeks even though

the Bellon event is virtual and you still can sign up um there are a handful

of us uh instructors teachers business owners that are flying into Texas and uh

we will be at Julie mcguffy's home and it is going to be a blast so I'm super

excited about that hey Carol everyone as well cool okay so let's get

to it I'm gonna I'm gon to put gosh now I feel bad where am I gonna put

her where can I put her you know what I think I could do this I could put her in

front of the wisdom Warrior for now okay let's not do

that let's not do that okay there we go I'm going to lay her down gently so that uh

all goes well all right put baby in the corner hey Robin I'm loving your your

work holy cowgirl come on now all right that is a come on now that uh piece that

you did I believe with the with the silver silk so I asked the question the other day in the uh free Facebook jul

Loom group you know hey what do you need to know you know as I'm building my

segments here for my YouTube lives and and recorded videos Etc what is it that

you need to know and so a lot of people chimed in and a couple people said the same thing so I thought well I'm going

to start with that and what that is is how do you

take different style of beads differ sized beads and put them into one loomed

project and it's literally like one of my most favorite things to do it's a great way to utilize all those extra

beads that you might have from projects and so um mixing it up is a super cool

way to bead on the jewel loom I do want to give Claire a shout out really quick

Claire was first uh in line in the hallway uh usually nobody beats Maria

but Claire was hanging out there and Claire I did see your comment in regards to your first warp strand being loose

I'm going to demo that next Thursday day we'll just like go back to the basics with the jewel loom and um but what I

want to tell you is that usually what happens is that you're losing you know

you're just losing your grip right like and it's normal it is like 100% normal

that the very first warp is loose that that's usually what

happens to folks when they're still learning okay and um and so we we will

definitely address that I also want to mention to you as Joan pointed out that

when you're done warping you know you're supposed to take your Rod out and what

happens is that the the loom extends even more and the warps become even more tight so we'll speak to all of that in a

demonstration that will be dedicated to that next Thursday but I wanted to

acknowledge you Claire I want to keep cheering you on um just keep practicing

and know that it's very normal that in the beginning that first warp is the one that's going to give you the most

trouble so just keep practicing and um and in the meantime Joan I do believe

had just found she found a link for you to go watch and um so that that

hopefully will will help you out but listen I designed um a quick little

pendant for you this is the Yogi Yogi I keep wanting to say Yogi

Yosi bear Yosi bear and why is it the Yosi bear well I couldn't figure

out if I was feeling the Big Bear Vibe or euse and when I looked at it all

together I was like it's a little of each right because right now eusee is like so incredibly gorgeous

snow the waterfalls are jamming like it's just beautiful Caroline to your

point full on stained glass apparently a couple of people were telling Joan it looked like a circuit board um I get it

I get it but I'm more on board with the whole like stained glass look so we got a little big bear we got

a little stained glass we got a little Ed going on and we got a lot of creativity I did put a kit together for

you and it's h five strands of gorgeous check glass beads four bugles which are

really hard to come by especially the uh 1.25 inch long ones I put all of that

in a kit for you it's like $12 it's like easy peasy Priced Right

throw your shipping on there and call it a day okay you will need your wire I I

know a lot of us have a ton of wire so I didn't want to like go through the labor expense of that but anyway so so

beautiful um what I'm going to do is I'm going to let's see

here so how do you get to that point right like how do you even

know what equals what what you know how do you how do you figure it out and I'm

just here to tell you like there's not like some big amazing answer okay it's just pretty

much trial and error and what I typically do is I take pieces of wire or I take my Jew Loom needles because

they're three inches long and I will just start to build out row by row

like what equals what equals a 4 mm bead round a

one and a qu inch long bugle and another 4 millimeter round what equals that

well I've got another 4 mm bead I've got 1 2 3 4 five two whole Square beads and

another four okay so then you start to break it down even more and you're like

well what equals 1 6 mm Square bead well for 3 mm

beads right or one 6 millim round bead

but here's the funny you would think you would think okay these are 12

mm pyramids okay I one time tried to do

12 mm pyramids with two 6 mm pyramids

and guess what did not equal 12 no

because see the little roundness on that 12 this is the 12 millimeter okay so the

two 6 mm pyramids were a little bit more Square so two 6 mm pyramids do not equal

112 mm so you kind of like have to just play around with it right you kind of have to just do some math sketch it out

just get your beads get little pieces of wire or use your needles to play around

with start lining things up to try to figure out like what equals what I just

gave you some examples I will tell you that two 6 MIM rounds do equal

112 we do know that okay we do know that uh I can also

tell you that uh three four millimeter wait are those

fours yes three four millimeter rounds

equal 112 okay look how pretty that is I mean that's so gorgeous very simple but yeah

I love the cut in you know how you go from the twelves to the you know to the

fours um you know here's another example where we've

got the what I was telling you earlier right here's four 3mm round beads these little

guys they equal two bugles they equal one 6 mm square and they equal one 6 mm

round so you're just kind of playing around with the idea

of what matches what what looks good together you know um and I'm going to

show you something cool because in this one what I actually did is I ended up doing I ended up doing see

these dark ones these are 4 millimeter and at first I thought oh

poopies like two fours are not going to equal a six darn it and then I thought well I'm

going to see what it looks like and I actually love it I don't think it's a problem so these are the two fours these

are my two whole 6 mm squares and all is well in the world like it's not bad at all I think it's

super cool okay so I hope hope that kind of

gives you some uh empowerment almost in a way

right like it's not like some big Magical Mystery it's just have fun with

it and definitely when you're doing this kind of mix it up and we're going to get into the demo you want to have a 11os

around and you might even consider having some 80 so like say the too 110 seed beads

too 80 seed beads this is where all that bead soup comes into play where you can just like reach into your stash that

you've not used because for instance when I did these beautiful little um oh

gosh the Rondell guys here right there's one two there's four of them that

equal the five six mm squares but there was a gap and it was a gap that would be

accommodated by an 110 seedbead so you really just need to

like have fun with it don't take it too serious but I am going to tell you the important things to know okay so here we

go I'm going to scooch everything

over and I did decide to work on my original jewel loom

definitely could have done this on my baby jewel loom especially if I wanted

to save the wire but when I took the piece off of the original jewel loom and saw how much wire especially the good

stuff right like I'm working with the non-tarnish silver artistic wire 24

gauge it it's on the higher end and I'm certainly not going to toss it and so I

was like oh my gosh what am I going to do and that that's where I was like oh my gosh I'm totally going to set up my

coiling Gizmo and I'm going to coil those long pieces of wire I'm not going

to let them go to waste and then on the shorter ones I'm going to make

swirls so no waste here with the wire all right so we've got the original

jewel loom and I do have the uh metal rod already inserted I'm going to pop it

out really quick though hold on okay so there's the J Loom here's the

rod and let me see if we can do this I think I feel like I want to stand up to

do it I I just feel weird about the process of putting the rod in when I'm sitting down okay so here's the rod okay

and we're going to take the one end of the rod put it into the hole that's at

the bottom that's closest to your body so you can see that this is my body it's not a stunt

double all right so we're gonna put that into that bottom hole there bring the

rod forward and because I am standing up oh my goodness I'm so short I'm gonna

use my belly and I'm going to pop the rod into the top hole okay so this is

your jewel loom with the rod in it and now it is ready to have your warping material now

typically all right typically I'm going to sit down make sure my chairs there so I don't fall on my tush typically we're

warping with like a beading thread or maybe even like a hemp cord but I really wanted to warp with

wire and I love warping with wire especially when I'm working with the jewel loom it's just so

beautiful and just going to grab my flats to get this out of the little hook

again this is Artistic wire non-tarnish silver and it is 24 gauge

okay so this is a spool I'm you know this could be an old school spool from

back in the day I don't know that it's a beetle on spool but it's artistic

wire we're just going to move that over and I guess Joan do you just want to make me small and then um make the

overhead bigger awesome that's like the dirtiest

Rod I bet I bet this is a rod from like 2012 when the Lo first came out

all right so I've turned my loom over okay and this area right here is closest

to my body and this is my right hand and I'm working from the spool and one of

the great things about working with the wire is that you don't have to worry about like

tying it's so cool so what I'll just do is like leave a tail what is that like two two and a quart two and a quarter

inches long and then I'm just going to wrap it around the back of that

button and then I'll just take like these two pieces and kind of twist them

together okay and then we'll just get that out of the way and next what I'm going to do is I

am going to bring the warp and just lay it on one of

the grooves okay and then I'm going to flip

it over so we're treating it just like we do whoops let's get in this shot here we're

treating it just like we do when we are using the beading thread now when you

are working with the wire it's definitely going to dance a little the warmth from your

hand whoa is definitely going to U Massage the wire and get the Kinks out

I'm just going to put this next to me but I do have a pair of nylon jaw players handy okay so I'm just going to

kind of like rub it so that the Kinks get out and then I'm going to come down here and

I'm going to just eyeball you don't have to really worry about counting too much here I can see that's pretty

straight then I'm going to flip it over wrap it around the back button and come

back up now the first warp area that I want to create is so that

the three or 4 mm bead will fit in between these two warps

and so I'm going to skip one two grooves okay then I'm going to flip it

over again wrap it around the back button and now this time this time this

area right here has to accommodate the bugle so let me flip

over I'm going to do a little guest but I'm going to bring in my bugle

bead so hold tight and then I'm going to lay it

on I'm going to lay it on the grid there let's see how close I got let me get my

let me get my fingers out of the

way okay okay so that looks about right so we've

got we've got one two 3 4 five 6 7 8 9 10

11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

20 so we have skipped 20 rows to

accommodate the biggest I don't think it's the biggest I don't think that

would be the right word let me see I want to say like the um what's the

difference between biggest and longest because this is

our in essence biggest bead longest bead and we do need the warps to be able to

be big enough right that spread there to accommodate it

so again I've skipped 20 grooves and so I'm going to

continue all the way down and I'm just going to give it a guesstimate there I think that looks

like 20 and a c oops turn it go back around and then again I'm going to skip

two grooves flip it over come back

up okay and then this time I'll turn it over and I'm going to come around the

back here wrap it around a few times again the cool thing about the wire is that you know you're you're not so

stressed out about losing the tension because it's holding um holding it now I

don't want to waste so I'm going to cut just about right

there and now what I can do is kind of just take these ends twist them

together so the million dooll question that's going to come up next is whether

or not I remove the rod the wire is pretty taut it's very

nice and strong it's not like say a Sor Ribbon or a piece of denim or something

like a cotton so I do feel comfortable in removing the rod 9.9 times out of 10

we're removing the rod because once we do that all right see how the loom

flexed and look at how nice those wired warps turned out Joan can you put me up

a little bit I want to put them to this other camera as well so I just want to show you that look at

how look at how delicious that came out so this is 24 gauge wire warped and when

I took the rod out which is very important I know there are some people out there who are teaching to leave the

rod in you don't leave the rod in especially when you're with beating thread or wire hemp cord

Etc if I'm working with a really stretchy leather I might leave the rod

in just because it's going to stretch and then it's going to go right so but

look at that now this is a perfect example of where the bed of the jewel

loom and the top of the warp listen did you hear

that Jan's funny she's like I can't get it to do

that I'm impressed with myself that I got the wire to make that strum you go

Jewels all right the bottom of the jewel loom to the top right here should never be more than two inches if your

measurement of the bottom of the jewel loom to the top of your warps is more than that you have warp too tight and

you are stressing your flexible plastic out remember it's flexible not bendable

okay so again the bottom the bed right here the you know and that could be well

with where the jeel loom logo is okay the belly of the jewel loom to the top

of your warp should never be more than 2 Ines so it's really important okay let's

go back so I already have my jewel loom needle and my Wildfire on here and I've

got about two yards I call them Jewel yards right so like I just stretch my arms and I

cut and what I'm going to do um I feel like need to kind of raise this up a

little bit there we go if you want to put my

overhead back on Joan

okay so let's just get that bad boy tight okay all right uh

oh what just happened you want to bring me back up

really quick I don't know what just happened hold

[Laughter] please I keep touching

something oh the beauty of

lives here she comes back into the studio start the camera enter the

studio put on

mute okay there we go now we have

two all right so we're just going to bring this down

and I'm going to get the end of

my wild fire and I'm just going to attach it with a tiny little

knot it's so funny the sounds and because I'm working on a

pendant I'm going to kind of focus on you know this area down here

right and then whoa and then I'm going to

bring the needle and thread and maybe if I got in the shot that would help there we go there we go okay needle and thread

are in my left hand and they're coming under the

warps and we're going to pick

up a 4mm bead the bugle

bead and I do have to tell you that my mom literally handpicked every bugle

bead so that all four of them match for you okay so you don't have to worry that

one's going to be shorter than the other um that can be a pain in the tush all

right so we're going to thread that all the way

down and then here they come okay and then we're going to guide

these beads up and in between the wired warps so the 4 mm see how it just popped

up in there and now the bugle and I'm going to bring my pointer in so that the

beads are resting on my pointer finger my pointer this is my pointer okay it's part of my body then I'm going to take

the needle and the needle is on top of the warps going through the

bead and you just want to make sure the needle is always on top when you go back through and I could see that it's nice

and shiny want to get the rod out of the way let me get back into the picture

here and I just want to help guide so I'm guiding the

Wildfire I've got my needle in my left hand guiding the Wildfire with my

right and we got a lot of wildfire to start with so it's always a good idea

to help guide it I've got my fingers on the belly of the jewel loom so that it doesn't

wiggle and I'm going to pull all right so there is our first row

yay okay so our next row

is I'm going to pull these in

here our next row is going to be um 1 4

mm and what did I do I did green no no no yes yes yes

yes okay then I got a this gorgeous um green two hole

Square another one

and brown oh let me bring some in over here oh

there's

one okay so 1 2 3 4 five so five 6 mm beads equal one bugle bead all right and

then I'm going to pick up another four okay and we're going to let that

fall and I again just always helping to guide sorry for my big old hand there

let's get that out of the way and then we can see this hanging under the warps

right so they're under the warps we're going to carefully guide

them up the four millimeter beads going to pop up into and in

between and between the warps and I'm just letting them rest on my pointer

and we're going to take the needle we're coming back through the bead and we're

coming back through the top hole of the two hole

bead that is the goal so we just got to go slow here and we're just making

sure and we scooch up so do you see how my needle is at an

angle you you don't need to fuss with fight with worry about like it didn't really

want to go straight in so I'm like okay cool I feel you you just want me to go

in at an angle which I'm gonna do and then they figure themselves out and they

straighten up and then we're just going to pull this

through and we'll get everyone nice and straight see it all works out so you

don't have to fight with it if it feels like your needle wants to go in at an angle and then very carefully we're just

going to pull that a little bit there make sure that we don't have any loose ends on the on the end now there's a

second hole on this Square bead so we got to go back through that and what

we're going to do but we also need a filler bead right here so we need another 4 mm so I have to hand feed this one right

so I'm going to come over here I'm under the warps I'm going to pick up that

four okay and scooch it down and then I'm going to take the

needle and I'm going through the bottom hole and you're like Jules this looks

really Advanced well maybe I you know I don't think it's

super duper Advanced I think it's all about the practice right and it's so cool two whole beads are Super Rad okay

now I need another 4 mm here so I'm going to feed that last one on let's try to find

the hole without poking myself are you on there awesome and we're just going to be

patient we're going to pull the needle we're just letting everything

guide and we're helping and we're helping and we're watching and we're

taking our time and I'm going to get my big old hand out of the

way and we're going to let all of this come together and that bead's going to pop right up into the

warps oops see we got to get everybody straightened here there we

go okay now is

this or are these five two whole Square

beads um well they look like a bridge right they've got like a little ump to

them they're not laying flat they're kind of suspended in mid midair right

now but what I found and I'm just going to let me finish the motion because I don't want to forget and then totally

screw up so I'm over here on the right side which means I've got to go back

through the bottom beads the bottom holes

here and again I'm just going to guide

that okay and so you can kind of see like when I went back through and I

completed the process that they laid a little bit better but let me bring in the finished one really quick just so

you know where we're getting too once we take it off you know the um the

[Music] loom okay let's see what's happening

okay so look at look at how they lay right now like so that this piece is the finished piece you can see that once it

expands once it's off the loom that little bridge is not really you know so

poofy I don't mind it I don't think it's a dill breaker I love the Look What

could you do if you're just like I'm not feeling it I want to do something

different um you could perhaps do say

one less 6 mm square and then maybe you try

like three I'm sorry Four 3 millimeter squares you could do that you could

maybe use some um instead of five but really I I

don't mind this look but the piece is going to be yours so you kind of have to decide for yourself so there's our

second row and now the third row all

right so we're back to some more math here this is going to be um

one one four 1 14 millimeter okay so I got that up here and then these gorgeous

Fern colored little um like a little it's like a little spinner top reminds

me of that game so I've got one of those and then I'm going to pick up an 11

o and I only know to pick up an 110 because when I was laying this out it didn't work and I was like oh my gosh I

need filler beads so then I grabbed some 11s um now the next pickup is actually

going to be two okay hold on whoopsie one two 11

O's come on buddy okay two 11 O's and then another

one of these gorgeous Ferns and I got a peek where are we at

and then uh wait one two y okay one two so

then we're going to do one more of these 11 O's and then another gorgeous little

spinning top Fern bead and then so that's four okay

so let me bring let me get this last one on here and I'm going to bring it up to the camera oh my gosh look how pretty that

is so we've got a 4 mm 6 an 110

6 two 11 O's 6

1106 and a four okay so that

equals the row above it and then it also equals the one with the

bugle okay so pretty okay so let's let's get these up and on

there and we're just going to pop those in and I'm going to take the

needle and we're going through I got to be I might need a little more light on

the situation yeah hold on one quickie here I'm going to turn my light up

because trying to see those whoa those seed beads is like a little challenging

okay so let's do that again so we've got them and it's resting on my pointer my

pointer is like a best tool and I'm going through I just got to make sure I'm

getting through the 11 O's they're so stinking

small okay I

think yep come on buddy let's see does it look like I got them looks like I got

them okay and then we will oh come on

now we've got we've got a jam all right so when that happens what

I'm trying to do is oh good what I was going to say is sometimes when that

happens when your needle is being stubborn and it doesn't want to come through instead of forcing it with the

power of your hand I have found that if you bring your Flats in your flat nose

and you pull carefully for some reason it distributes better so I know Dave

David's not watching today so he's not here to tell us the uh tell us why I bet he has a good

answer for for that okay so we're just going to pull that and now we have our first three

rows now Joan has a little tip that she talked about

earlier she likes to go back through the beads to kind of

help them be a little bit more taught and not have the you know flimsy in

there um I think that's a great idea my only comment would be be careful

because you don't know how many more times you can get through that tiny hole and so you'll just have to kind of play

around to see if that happens you know if it will work especially with the 11 o on this row might be a little tough to

get back through those guys Wyatt did turn me on to the ultra fine that beon

just came out with so I am definitely going to be playing around with that um to see if it helps in these types of

situations all right so now we're going to go back to um the

for and where did we do we had a green whoops we had a green and then we

had the brown and we had whoops we had the green and we had a

brown and we had a green okay and then we need a 4mm

bead Maria you're so so funny Maria says that she has amassed

quite a collection of two whole beads Maria's um a Prof very proficient SE

beater and so we're trying to bring her to the other side here uh oh hold on

yeah don't have a bunch of stuff on your table when you're beating because your Wildfire just loves to make friends with

it all okay so so again I'm going to let that rest

on my pointer and this is just a random pattern you know like I I don't have any

Rhyme or Reason I just wanted to create something to help get you know help you

to understand how you can use different sized beads different styled beads all

right so once again making sure that I'm through the top hole and then I'm just

going to put my fingers on the jewel loom to keep it sturdy and I'm just letting that

Wildfire guide its way okay and then we're just going to

pull we're not pulling too tight but we're pulling tight enough that none of the Wildfire is loose on the ends and

then we've got to come over here and hand feed or just hey hey

hey can only imagine how many beads there are on the floor okay so then we're going

to let this string

down so I got to back it up because I need to get into the um the bottom hole here so the needle's

going into the bottom hole of the two-hole

bead and let's see are we in there yep and do a little wiggle wiggle and it looks like I made it all the way through

and then I'm going to add another 4 mm pinch those with my fingers

just so that they stay get my hand out of the

way help everybody get up into their little warped

alleys get everything aligned up all right and then we're going to go

back through and

oops so anytime that there's like a struggle of you know like you're trying

to get the needle to go straight just work with it like you can see like I'm

already back at an angle and it's fine because we can we can work it all out to and get it even um what's going on

here okay so you know you're dealing with 24 gauge

wire and the needle is trying to come through these beads and then it's trying to get over the warp and back into the

hole of this bead so just be aware of the type of material you're working with

and why there might be a little bit of a struggle and then we're just going to scooch that up and then we're going to

pull and there we we go so in no time at all we've got like four

rows and we'll do one more of the 4

mm with a bugle I love these bugle beads they're

they're coveted I have a bag that I keep a close eye

on all right and then we're going to pop those up and in between

the warps and I'm going back through the bead and again just letting the bead and

the needle and the Wildfire kind of do its thing and we're just going to do

that okay and so that would be like your you know the pattern that you were

just going to you could keep repeating but by all means you could mix it up and

do something else that speaks to you but look at how stinking gorgeous that

is isn't that so

pretty yeah widest thank you her me it takes a

village no matter what we're doing in life it takes a village whether it's raising kids

beating words yeah the green is just gorgeous I mean that's how it was like

the combination of the silver by all means I could have like found a green artistic wire but I thought well I kind

of I don't want to go with like all green and the silver is just always a really great

go-to and um and then you know it was like looking at it I was like okay this is this is

not just Big Bear this is euse so okay uh we are already I don't know

let me see let me think cuz that took a little bit more time than I thought and I kind of want to show you you know just

taking it off the loom and so we could kind of do like a little um a little

patch here so I'm I'm going to just turn I'm actually let me see can

I yeah we'll just leave it like this we'll just do something fun this will be like a little little

simple simple pended it I bet we could turn it into an earring earring if we wanted so I'm just going back through um

the bugle because it's dancing a little bit and I want to secure it a little bit better so I just went

back um and I'm under the warps and then this time I'm going to

go this is kind of like what Jones talking about you know because she she

likes her beads to be a little bit more flat um I obviously with my big hair

like things to be more dimensional and poochie Okay so we've got that going on

and what I'm going to do is I'm just going to kind of come under here let me see can I

hide I don't know I don't I don't like that okay I'm just gonna come over

here and then I'll use my Wildfire burner and I don't think you're going to see this

yeah it's so minute like you're totally never going to see that okay let me get my Wildfire

burner I don't even know how I lived before I

had I had this and this is already

whoops okay all righty and we're going to scooch that over and let me just clear

the way so yeah so this is just yeah these are fun because this just really helps you

to kind of think about how your pieces would would fit together I like this

idea a lot all right I'm GNA get my silver silk out of the way and we're going to scoot this up and

out and we're going to come to the spot

here I'm going to I want to um make sure by the way when you're cutting I like to

hold my project because we're working with glass beads right and then I'll

take my fingers and like hold on to the jewel loom and in this

case I just don't want anything to bounce so whoa like that so that's a

good thing that I had my my um hand on the

beads and what we're going to do next all right we're going to take now I

thought for Giggles I would try Danielle's you know Swift move right and I was like like oh it's not going to

work but it did so let's see if it works this time so let me get back in that wait

where you at Jules okay there we are all right and what I

found yep is that the outside look at that look how it just Glides so what's

happening is the warp is pulling pulling up but I definitely keep

my hands on everything because I don't want anything to shift

it's like so incredibly magical right I was like oh that's so cool all

right so I'm gon to come over here and do the same thing and I'm just pulling I do want to pay

attention to if there's any kinks because that's not going to

be that's not going to be a happy day so just very carefully

pulling okay and so oh my gosh looks like we just need a little more pull

over here and and so you can see and I know you all like why didn't you just use the

baby Loom I could have I could have and you can you can I just you know I was

making a bigger pendant over here and I have these coils that I want to show you how I did that so I didn't like want

to you know not show you how I did did that so okay um Let me let me do all the

things let me do all the Maneuvers here

so these two really long pieces I'm just going to keep over to the

sides these guys are obviously way too long as well I'm going to trim

them don't you know this is still workable you know keep that for whatever

CU again this is the more expensive non non-t tarnish so get rid I'll I'll trim

the two ends here the two middles and then what I'm going to do

and this is like so freaking awesome hold on don't go anywhere okay so I'm gon to bring the coiling Gizmo in all

right and let me just get that set up it's like geez jeules how how many

steps girl how many steps

okay and then I'm working with the Dow that's the number two I think that

whoops I think this is the second to the largest Dow in the kit and I'm going to reposition the

camera let's see here oh no I thought we were gonna lose

it okay let me bring it in a little

here okay is that good so I'm taking this

long end whoa where is it at this long end right here and I want this to be in front of

me and I'm just going to wrap it around the handle and then I'm going to

make a coil I feel like this should be closer hold on there we go there we go

awesome and remember when you're making your coils on your coiling Gizmo you really

do want to kind of keep them nice and taut and you got to watch so that they don't snake over each other so you see

how my pincher and my thumb are holding the wire okay and it's guiding up

onto the Dow here and I'm going to go all the

way here comes the pendant

here comes the pendant all right come on now all right

cool oh my goodness Marlon Brando is dying outside all right so we're going to slide that

off and there's that coil and then we're going to bring this in

again and we're going to go to the other side where that really super long piece

was so these are the warps and we're coiling them now it's crazy I

know oh the sound is killing me okay so we're almost up to here I'm gonna just help guide it up I don't want to screw

it up here all right perfect and then I'm going to remove this

this okay and then just like that we have these two coils right look at this and I

can bend them up just like that all right and then let's get I'm

going to remove this so that I don't stab myself because that's happened a time or

two and we'll just get these back here okay so we're

just going to take these and then I want to take my um my needle nose and we're

going to find I like to get the tip so that I get

a really tiny whoa really tiny

swirl okay and where's my flats flat nose

pliers okay there they are then I'm going to come in with my flats and I just start

carefully walk that swirl into

itself once it gets going come on

buddy it's moving right I can't tell if it's moving it's like so tiny okay there we

go there we go there we go come on

now come on

now see how tiny that is whoa the camera

froze there we

go some people can do it faster but I'm super weird about my

swirls I like them to just be really nice and

taut so once you get past those first few turns I feel like it rolls into

itself a lot better and then if you even wanted to you can because we'll be here till

midnight there we go so you can pitch

them so I'm kind of just finishing it by hand because of time but if it were just

me and a pair of pliers and the swirl we would just take our sweet

time okay and um you know you could do the same thing to this one or you know

you could do some fun stuff I used to do a lot of different wire working just bring in

your you know make little oh did I

freeze we've had the fighter jets over all day so who knows what's going

on and we'll just do something funky like that okay then what I wanted to do

was I was like okay well what am I gonna what am i g to you know add this to like where's the necklace part and I I looked

over and I was like oh the silver silk drawer so I grabbed some

chain and all I did did was I came over

here and I took the end of the silver silk chain let me get the nylon Jaws where

are they at just

gonna smooth that out these are your best friends when you do wire working I

don't know how people don't have them but you know you can always use the warmth from your

hands so just kiss this to the bottom

here and you could take nea's um you know the ends that he has to put the end

of the silver silk in his beautiful clasps or you can just wire

wrap you know drape it over but look at that see how it works uh

[Music] oh

oh okay are we back it looks like we're back okay so

yeah so we'll just finish this

side and you're just wrapping that wire so you're just making like a hand connection there

oops want to be careful with those ends let me trim that before I poke

myself so now you have like a little baby pendant at how cute and you could

stretch this out if you wanted to make it look more like a that game that I

don't want to say the name of look how fun oh my gosh and look at the big one so you can have like Mommy and me or

best besy pendants so fun so fun and easy okay let

me come back up Joanie wanna W to bring me on

up I don't know what's going on with these I'm

gonna okay I don't know if I just poked myself there's not blood anyway

fun so we've got the little tiny one they're really they look like little

artsy pieces super fun I probably like I'm not sure what I might turn that

a little bit had I thought about it I probably would have put it on the Dow the second

time and then made like a chunky monkey except for that it's connected to the pendant not sure how to do

that but that would be cool all right so any um questions in

regards to mixing it up and oh I did cut myself

go any questions about mixing up the beads

and how to figure that out I mean really I would just have fun with it I would

just have whatever beads it is that you're thinking of using and then I would just get the little pieces of wire

and oror needles and start building it out even if You' like sketch it out I

think that you know that would be a great idea as well um Maria said warp to your desired

WID weft I don't know what that

means but it's an idea and I love that you have ideas dab dab dab

dab nice yeah I really love warping with the wire I think that it's just

incredible um did I bring the one pendant I don't know did I show this one

pend that this was really fun so this is wire warped with

wire and then this is just using the Sor ribbon so like you can use Sor ribbon you can use the silver silk you can use

leather chain you know whatever you might have but this is pretty simple

this is all 6 mm and a um and a bugle bead so you can see those guys in

there and so yeah so again got a k for you and so those are in the shop pretty

simple easy peasy Priced Right and I'm sure you have wire and

silver silk and that might be all you need to add so

thank you guys big thank you to all of the bellicon folks that um are watching

and the where's eile let's bring eile back in and

where's her Loom at it's a nice Loom it's so

sturdy I lean in her Loom I lean on a stick I'm taking it to Texas you know I

am it's so pretty look at her name and everything and look at what Robert did

he made the little um notches so that you can tie off no matter where you are

where you start or where you end so it really makes it easier on these types of

looms for us and I love that he did that for Eileen's

folks it's got the little so this is the same grid as the small sunweaver so

it'll accommodate like you know your like point or yeah five5 millimeter hemp

cord wire of course but you always got to be careful when wire meets the wood you know just conscious of that but yes

thank you so much Deb sideways laughing yeah always interesting and fun

thank you I mean here's just another example as we're on our way out these are Boomerang beads and so you can see

like I figured out how many 5 millimeter fire polish equal a b a boomerang right how many go

across how many go in the middle how many go side to side so you really just got to get your beads and then just

start you know seeing how they how they work out and it's really fun don't make it too complicated um it it's just a fun

way to use your beads up and to make really beautiful things like I love this I

taught this one in Tucson so okay so next Thursday we will

definitely go back we will go back to preschool with the jewel loom and uh

just talk about the ins and outs and warping and if you're brand new to the jewel loom I cannot encourage you enough

to just practice don't be so hard on yourself that you think you're just

going to make some magical piece the first time around you're learning a new technique those warps are the most

important thing somebody in the group posted a picture of what she was doing

she ordered a bead kit from um another company and the beads are all irregular

they're just all irregular and so your piece is not going to look flat and

defined and delicious but that's okay because in the beginning use those beads

so you can practice and you can get your warps down they're the most important

part of looming of beating on a loom and just please don't be hard on yourself

you just need to practice so next Thursday we're going to like I said go back to preschool with the jewel loom

and um yeah going back to school going back to

school right so you got to have nice nice and Tau warps I've been doing this for a long time so don't be hard on

yourself you'll get there easy peasy pumpkin squeezy all right thank you

everyone thank you thank you thank you I spelled your name as my sister spells

hers that's okay all right so again another huge shout out to everyone there's still time to buy your bellacon

tickets um I don't know if we have that link or not but you can still I don't know if there were any Swag Bags left oh

my gosh they're like amazing so congratulation to those folks who got

one and um Nilda says absolutely need next Thursday's class I'm so a

beginner yeah and and you're going to be for a while like it's okay like I

couldn't even remotely start to do off Loom work like it would take

me a hot minute to figure that out and I'm a beater on a loom so every you know

like T tip techniques are just different and so it's

okay yeah I'm so happy you're here with us Nilda I really really am it's so cool

Jenny says she's a beginner too yeah so we'll we'll definitely we're going

we'll Post in the group if there's something specific my first thoughts are how do you set up the jewel loom how do

you insert the rod how do you warp what's that you know the distance

between the belly of the jewel loom and the warps what should the warps look like removing the rod um tension how

tight should I pull you know there there's a lot of things a lot of notes a

lot of technique and it's not always about you

know right fabulosity because you got to get you got to get up to that point right you

got to get up there so we'll get there there's a whole bazillion amounts of

people who are who are weaving on the Jill Loom so we're all good all right I

will see you Joan will see you we appreciate you so very very much please let me know if you have any questions

Post in the Jew Loom group if you have specifics that I've not mentioned and I will see you one quick note I'm going to

be on Monday April 8th Eclipse I'm going to be on with the total eclipse creative

Soul kit for April those are going fast and the new Mini Moon Loom which of

course is on the other side of the room I will be demoing I think I'm going to start like

at 10:00 in the morning and I'm just going to keep going I'm going to make rings I'm gonna make a lot of rings I

want to make rings so Monday I'll send out an email if you're not on the

newsletter list please sign up for the email and you will know what time I'm going to start for sure but it's with

the creative Soul total eclipse kit and the new Mini Moon Goddess Loom she is

gorgeous she's just gorgeous maybe Eileen will join

me ien on a stick she's gonna die all right I love you guys we'll see you

later

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