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SilverSilk Cuff With Beading Wire - Jewel Loom School with Joan

August 19, 2022

Beading tutorial with 2-hole tile beads and SilverSilk Chain

Let’s mix things up a bit! Joan is using SilverSilk Capture Chain & beading wire as warps. She weaves some 2 hole & fire polish beads to make this beautiful cuff, besides showing how to use a slide connector. Plus she shows a different way to add more thread when weaving.

Items Used:

Beading Wire
SilverSilk Capture Chain (can use Pearlesque Chain also)
Wildfire
6mm Tile Beads
6mm Fire Polish Beads
3mm Fire Polish Beads
Slide Connectors
11/0 seed beads
SilverSilk Jewel Loom

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SilverSilk Capture or Pearlesque Chain: www.silversilkonline.com
6mm Tile Beads: https://jewelloom.com/collections/beads/6mm-2-hole-tile?aff=11
6mm Fire Polish Beads:https://jewelloom.com/collections/beads/6mm-fire-polish?aff=11
3mm Fire Polish Beads: https://jewelloom.com/collections/beads/3mm-fire-polish?aff=11
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Transcript:

hi i'm jung dice and i'm the jewel loom school concierge besides being um like a

background assistant social media um um for jules juliana jules avalar and also

for um the silver silk so um social media ambassador

so this is so i just found this so cool when um this came out because it's kind

of like um you know emerge between my two um favorite people

and um so um julie um jules came out with this um to use silver silk on and

the grooves in it is bigger to hold the silver silk and then also you can even use thicker

cords on the back side so i imagine like you can also put in um

leather into um hollow mesh and also

you can maybe even fill some beads with holo mesh and put it on the loom here with the thicker side so if you want to

straight string some more beads between them so it's pretty good and you can even make a longer bracelet

or even a necklace by wrapping all the way around so i just wanted to show you um

a necklace that i got inspired by this one it's one we made in

the jewel loom school monthly workshop

and i was really inspired by it so i tried it by putting a similar version between

silver silk so that's what i'm going to show you today now last um

recently trish did a project with soft flex and i got

really excited for about it so instead of using s-lon for the warps where i did in this

one i'm gonna use soft flex and the soft flex i'm using is the

champagne extreme flex wire i was gonna use um

some of the blue i got a trio of blues um about a week and a half ago in the mail

right before i got went on vacation and i misplaced it

and so i arranged all this and that's when i found found it because i was gonna make it in blues so um i'm hoping

that this will show up as looking like grout between the tiles

um you know that's how um the original design for this one jules put

um used um hemp in between to make it look like grout

but i changed it to s on something just kept telling me to try that because she teaches us to make it our own she shows

us the techniques and her designs but then we change it up to make it our own

and the other thing i'm going to be using is [Music] oh i lost a little bag for it

it's some capture chain i think i believe it's called is it shimmering copper i had the bag

right here and um well actually it's a copper that has

some dark chain in it so since i couldn't find my tan wildfire

i'm using some black because it'll blend in with the chain and you know the ball chain in the um

in the capture chain so then i'll show you my design which is

really similar to um this design you know just different colors

and so let me go down to my workstation now hold on okay the beads i'm using are laid out

here i mean it's kind of sloppy because of me moving it around but i'm using

six millimeter tile beads three millimeter fire polished beads

and six millimeter fire polished beads i like the fire polished beads because they are usually pretty uniform with the

tile beads and um i like mixing them up because it gives you a lot of texture

you can find most of these beads on jewelry.com

i do have some extras in that was left over from previous workshops so too

and just some of the there are some three miller meter fire polish i got from my own stash too that's been in

there forever so and then i did find it it is shimmering

copper for the um for the silver silk

i don't know if i can put that under the name but shimmering copper i have all the links in the um

in the video under description

and just to let you know i like using

the big eye needle because when i make mistakes i just find it easier to thread an end thread since

the you know the needle is still white wider than the project

okay so there's a couple things i want to do first

and sorry i forgot that

um i like using the the um

bead stopper for the ends of the silver so i mean for the um

soft flex because when i tied it i couldn't get it tight enough on here only because i was afraid of breaking

the wood so i found if i use the bead stopper at the end it worked out really well because i'm

only using two strands of the soft flex

so this is so to show you how to string it

i take an end of the silver silk it doesn't matter which groove you put it in we're only going to be using four

grooves but i place one

trying to find the video sorry i'm not used to doing this but i place one at one of the end

grooves and put it in the groove under above it

and then i go across to that groove that's directly across them and put it in the next one and i

skip i skip the next two grooves because that's what i'm going to use for the

soft flex because these grooves are about six millimeters apart too and so that's

perfect for my beads that i'm using today

okay

oh i turned off my silver sock i have enough hair left for a bracelet

or even part of a necklace and now i'm going to use my soft flex

i hope they still carry this color wire i i found it in my stash

you know looking at all the um different soft flexes i have in my stash to see what would go good with this

collar and i really like this so i did the same for the soft flex

you'll see it'll sit a little bit lower

let me show you the end what i'm going to do now now for the ends just to make it tight

i'm just using the bead stopper there and pushing it again up against it

show you what i did

okay and so it's it's let me tighten it a little more

Beading

okay now just to let you know that the soft flex does sit a little bit lower than the um

beading wire but um

the but you know we'll correct that when we take it off it might be a little bit longer now i have a seven and

three fourths inch wrist and i measured trying to figure out what i'm gonna use for the ends and things

and i think i came out to six and a quarter to make the beaded section

so um this is eight and a half so i'm going to take

start about one inch from the end for beading

so just a little bit under oh since i have this backwards let me do

it this way

so about a quarter inch under the jewelry name

oops i forgot to trim my soft flex

okay now i usually take about two yards of the um

wildfire or fireline whichever you choose to use

so that's like stretching my arms way out while pulling that

just for the front of it

i got these special scissors at my local bead store that it's great for um

wildfire or fireline so i use it only for those

okay now if you're using a jewelry needle

just um do it as you normally would thread it as

you normally would

sorry

so i'm gonna string my tie my um thread

to the sock to the silver silk

i like leaving some so when i'm done i can kind of thread the ends into the beads too just so you know it just

protects my knot a little bit more

sorry about that

i may have to turn my board around so you can see

better

this is our first time i'm doing a beating video on my own so please be patient with me

and i gotta tangle this

now if you run you know if you're worried about running out of thread i'm going to teach you a trick

Adding Thread

about adding on thread that i've learned you know when i run out of thread i'll teach it to you

um then i learned from gail deluca who owns the local bead shop

white fox beads here and she taught it during bead weaving and i use it in looming also

because that's what we should do figure out ways we can use some techniques in with

others it makes our lives a lot easier and you might come up with some interesting

creations too that way

okay i got tied

and i'm gonna push this thread out of the way

so in this one i i start with three i mean

six throughout three millimeter fire polish

so it's really interesting um using different size beads

when you're using them on the loom you want to make sure that they all equal going between the warps

in this case we're using the six millimeter fire polish in this um six

millimeter tiles um do uh work together

but um i had when i went to the smaller beads i had to use three millimeter tiles um fire polish sorry about that

so i could so it they would um i could fit two between each warp so it would

equal you know one of the other beads so when you're mixing beads keep that in mind when you you know you when you're

putting between warps look at what i did i got one too many

i'm always told this is a no-no when doing it in bead weaving but

i don't always follow the rules

okay and the first row is usually harder and to be honest with you i like locking

it in place so i go through i go i do the um under and over

twice so i went under with the beads and fit them in between the warps

now i'm going over the warps with while going through the beads so my

needle is going over the warps

because of the thickness of the wildfire we're going to be playing with this but we'll smooth it out when we take it off the um

off the um loom too so it might look a little wonky so now i'm going just for the first row

i'm going back through again but you know but most people don't do that it's just for me it just makes my life easier

so you go with the techniques that you is easier for you

yeah so when i'm learning things i usually like watching two or three artists how to do things and then i adjust and take pieces of each one

and come up with a technique that's best for me

okay

okay now i'm not gonna make i'm gonna i'm gonna put in on

three six millimeter fire polish like i said lay out your design and do what you think is best for you this is more about

technique than anything

i love this some soft flex because i think it's really going to make the bracelet even stronger

because i'm not like when i've been bead weaving before

i've had you know after i've been wearing a bracelet for about a year i've had it break in a certain place

usually around the clasp i think it was but i'm going uh i don't want to redo all that or try to fix it and this um

soft flex will give you a lot more strength so you know it shouldn't happen

then i'm going to put in um six more

three millimeter

okay

and if you haven't checked out the um monthly workshop for um jewel loom

Adding Beads

you want to check that out it you know you pay for the workshop and you also get the kit

and we get a lot of surprises in the kit but jules always gives us

um extra beads you know especially when they're colorful like this one

so i should say always almost always and so um

we could um make it our own and change it up and then also it's usually a lot more to

make two or three more items like this month we're making two pair of earrings

or last month we made two pair of earrings this month we actually got another loom

the um baby i'm calling it the baby wisdom warrior

so it's about the same size as the um baby jewel loom it has that beautiful

wisdom warrior on it and so we can make like pendants or earrings on it without um wasting a lot

of our threads

and wires now i know jewel says oh

let me go get back to this part now we're going to go for the two hole beads

i do have a case where one of them is two-sided it's not the same on both sides so um

i'll show you that but otherwise just throw it on the um

beads you know if you do have it works two different size you want to make sure they're facing the same way let's see if

i can show you this

okay see i put my needle underneath

you can thread it

oh i see some of that you want to make sure that your thread is pulled tight enough but not so

it warps the everything and i had some extra that i just pulled out there

so i went back through now i'm going back underneath

i was thinking of something pretty cool last night too like if you had this and you wanted to edge it say maybe

um it'd be hard to edge it in um six millimeter you know like if you wanted to put extra rows on the sides it'd be

hard to do it with six millimeters because the holes wouldn't match up right um so like if you want to edge it three

millimeters so you can line them up with the holes the two holes so you see what i did there i i just

went underneath i went through all three holes now i'm going to go back you know on the bottom of those beads

oops

so yeah you gotta keep up the um keep in mind the alignment of the holes and whether they'll align too if you want to

mix up beads that way and i love these beads they remind me of

malachite see the darker green a lighter green i don't know if you could tell that but it's got lighter

green let me see if you can see it

i guess my camera is not wanting to focus but it's got lighter green lines in between them and i love finding um

beads like that that um you know for bead weaving or looming

that look like um that remind me of gemstones

because i love gemstones [Laughter]

okay you see that loop sticking out so i'm gonna pull on my thread to tighten that part

i have to keep an eye on that because i'm pretty bad about that i think i tighten it up and i didn't now

see we're going underneath and i find if you just let them swing under like that and go find the bottom hole

try to line them up so you can just go right through

so now they're not stringing anymore not to get under my silver silk

Congratulations

um oh i just want to congratulate um both jules and

nilay on being chosen like jules was chosen in um

as one of the top five innovators for um by

um interweave and uh and jewelry making

and nelay was chosen as top five trendsetters

you know both are really big honors um so i want to congratulate them and i'm really proud of both of them

because they both work so hard

and they both have wonderful custom companies with great customer service

and they're both one-man shows

as far as their business goes locally

i'm not going to make you sit through all this i just want to show you that two-sided bead

and then you know i'll come back on when um

i get to adding the thread and then also come back on when um

i get done so i can show you how to take it off i have a couple ideas for this i

want to try

okay

neely's coming out with a making his silver silk stronger you know coming up with better

ways and so you know he's been updating his

um inventory so if you haven't tried silver stuff in a while you really need to try out some

of the new things i know he updated um the flat mesh

and he's coming out with new um capture chain well it's probably all of them

plus i was really want to use the blue on here like i said i misplaced my um

my soft flex but maybe it would have been too much glue by the time i got done because i am such

a blue freak lose teals and turquoise

give me those and i'm in love with the project

so and i always thought um green and copper look great together so that's why i went ahead and went to this

okay

i have to get stuck back up on my soft flex it's getting pretty low and the blues i actually bought it to do

some um braiding and other beautiful bracelets i saw um sarah makin

a couple weeks ago two or three weeks ago

okay

Making the bracelet

that soft flex is so flexible too so i made i knew this that would make this bracelet so yummy using that you know

just all easy to put on because i did have some of the seven strand and i thought uh

in green i thought about using it but then i again i thought i don't know because i've made seven strand bracelets

before and they're harder to put on but i like using them like maybe

if you're just using like a little center piece in between some wires you know so it gives a little a tiny drape

that would you know good for that okay now see what i'm saying

messed up because i one of my ends was um

i need to strengthen my i move my hands down

on the um or move my needle down on the wire

you know one time i tried making it because i i just hate okay i have to figure out this design

just a minute

okay i see what i did okay

no i'm sorry about this this is part of the design got all mixed

up i think i did it that way okay

so see that's my double-sided bead so that's why i wanted to make sure i had it fixed that way

so put my needle back underneath

sorry i keep going off screen

okay so i'm going back over the top

and now i have to go underneath the silver

silk and underneath the um warps for the bottom

you know i like this bracelet because it's full of texture with the silver silk and the um

you know the like the six millimeter raise it raises up higher than the

others six millimeter fire polish does

okay let's see what we did here

okay now to go under

we're getting close to halfway down with this bracelet

so you may have been freaking out when i used my scissors to cut the silver silk

and my orange scissors the silver silk and the um

the soft flex but the scissors are guaranteed to cut anything so and since i forgot my

cutters i just went and grabbed those instead of making you wait for me to run into the other room to get my cutters

okay now this is the one where see that this bead

is double-sided it's green on one side and that really shiny um

dark copper coppery color on the other side so i want to make sure that coppery color shows up

so when i'm laying out the beads let me make the holes

i want to lay them out in the direction i'm going

and then you want to make sure you go through the top row once you lay out what how you want it looking on the

on the

loom and when you go to put on your class you also want to be mindful of that so your class is facing the right

way you're not showing the bottom of the of that bead or beads because i did that on another bracelet so luckily

it's the plain side of the clasp showing up but because i didn't really want to remove it that's what i did on that

black one i showed you earlier oops i see that little black loop again

let me tighten it

and then all you have to do is go um back through the bottom then

again where they're swinging so they don't have to swing

Running out of thread

okay so i'm going to stop here and get caught up until i'm starting to run out of thread so i could show you

how to add thread without having to feed through a bunch of beads and tie knots and things

i'm gonna and the thread burner's gonna help me quite a bit on that so it will return when i get to that point

Adding more thread

okay i'm gonna show you how to add um more thread to your um

thread on the loom i'm um and let me feed this

right back through here i like to try to make the thread that's

already on the limit as short as possible so i don't have to fight with it a little bit later

okay so what you do first is you get some more thread that you're

using to weave you know guess about how much you need i'm just going to be on the safe side

and get about another yard

then you tie it to the other thread

i just kind of make a square knot or whatever tie it down

and then you need your thread burner so

and my thread burner

here i'm sorry i forgot to get it okay

what you want to do is make little balls at the ends of the threads that you tied

this might be harder to do with size 15 beads but i have done this before getting them through

you just take some more tugging

so once you get the balls on the end

um grab the threads not the ends and just tug and see you got that little

ball there let me see if i can shave a little ball

so but you know it's where the threads met there's a little ball

so then just thread the extra thread now on the needle

on a bracelet i made yesterday i was able to hide that little ball into the silver silk

which made it lucky okay and then just go ahead with your stringing

like normal

i got like a little sunbeam bead there only had one left so i'd make it at the center piece of

of the bracelet so now when you get down to that ball

it's gonna have to tug a little bit that one was easier to go through oh what did i do i forgot to go

underneath

so until you get the ball you know past the ball you're just gonna have to do a little bit more tugging

but it's not really hard and i've never broken a string yet doing it now i have

made the strings come apart because i didn't make the balls big enough

at the ends of the threads

okay oh i was lucky i got that hidden inside i think that last bead

and you just go on from there and then i'll come back when i'm done

with the um weaving okay i'm almost done with the beading

Adding seed beads

i forgot that i am planning on using um slide connectors i only have silver

and gold so i'm going to use the gold um in which case i need seed beads 11

size 11 or size um eights for these to go over

and actually i had some it and it doesn't matter what color the those seed beads are because they're going to be

hidden by the slide connector they're going to be inside it and i had some ugly

black wonky ones that i bought years ago

when i was just grabbing things up from my stash so and they're size 12 so just

slightly smaller which i'm hoping to make some more room for the crimps when i crimp together the um beading wire

so i'm going to add it down here and as you can see it's kind of because the silver silk is wider and i got too close

to the end it's got a little wonky here but it'll smooth out when i take it off the loom

and um you know what they say you know i said i'd start a quarter inch below the

jewel loom named up here where i'm really bad about estimating sizes i mean somebody could tell me

four inches is six inches and i probably believe them so okay so let's get started just

finishing up this last row

so um at the top you know when it was where it's smoother i added um 12 seed

beads so even though it's a little tight here once it smooths out i'm um it should be about the same

amount of room so i'm going to add 12 down to the bottom two 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

8 9 10

11 12.

sorry about this it's almost as bad as some doing a the first row

because it's kind of tight they're all just kind of wanting to go all over the place

so i'm putting four in between each warp set of warps

and if you didn't know it the length going down up and down like this are called warps

and the other ones that go across right now i can't think of it beginning

to the w-2 so i just call it weaving

knows that might be the name of it i just don't remember okay

okay i'm going to do the cheaters way

get that back here

okay i'm just pulling all the thread from the other side from when i went underneath

and

now i'm trying to hit the very last bead before i go over the silver silk

now i want to do this actually what i'm going to do now because i want to strengthen it to

make sure that you know when the um the slider clasp doesn't come out i want

to make sure that strong in between so i'm going to go through the second

row again and by the way i did add thread like i

showed you so i can no i didn't add thread i left enough but you can add thread if you don't have enough thread

at the beginning to um do this i just want to make sure that

it's really strong in between the rows that it's still not going to pull out

i'd rather be safe than sorry after all this work i don't want it falling apart [Music]

okay

it doesn't help that my needle's slightly bent i should get my um

um my nylon jaw pliers and smooth them out

see this could have been done at the beginning sorry about this or no i guess this is my ending row but

that could have been done as the first row at the other end if i would have thought about it you know like joel says

always think about how you're going to finish it i sized it for the the um

um it's like um connector but i didn't think it through for some

reason i was thinking of um using something else

i'm just going to slide it through the silver silk i'm going to slide it underneath then and then i can tie it off

Removing from loom

okay now we're going to remove it from the loom and we want to do this carefully it shouldn't be too hard to do

um i'm removing the one end you know i took took off the bead clip

and the silver silk and the other end should be able to

slide off pretty easily then

okay

now what i want to do is i want to make sure it's spread um

you know because it was all wonky down here i just want to make sure it's smoothed out

that um you know it's not gapping or anything we're trying to be on top of each other

okay now

i want two clipboard no no one there that one has a wire cutter on it

Slide clasp

okay i'm going to show you how to finish this off with the slide clasp

just to let you know that i did this once before and i made a big mistake i said to cut

it too short and so that meant that it wasn't working

right so i unraveled some of the ends and put on some um

plain black nicer size 11 so i could um

work through this and get it through the line and bleed me it's a lot easier to do it on the limb than to do it laying

out weaving those things so now i found the easiest way

to um

and these is i'm going to just put a seed

bead on each silver silk now i did tie them in the one that i um

scrapped in that tutorial because um and i glued it the ends and it seemed to be

really strong you know this is a couple of days later but um

you know so you could tie them but mine now are cut too short to do that

so if you tie them i suggest putting glue on the ends because the ties will go through the um you know if you tie

them enough tight enough to the um seed beads they will go into the clasp

and this like connector now since i did this too short once we

we get done with it i'll measure and see what risk risk size is for but you know if you do make yours too

short you can also have the option of maybe um attaching you know wire wrapping some

um beads to the end or even attaching some

you know to these take removing the clasp and um

wire wrapping some beads or um attaching some chain there

okay so i'm just gonna let's see i got the black seed bead and there's my crimp it

doesn't matter what color crimp you use too i'm using a size one just

i mean if you only have size two just put another strand of um soft flex in it

i tried that and it just wasn't working so you know i was i mean i was having a hard time and i wanted to get this done

so i just switched over to these size ones i don't know how neely doesn't

okay so i'm just putting in the back and making a little noodle out of it and

putting in the front slot so i'm just using a traditional crimper and i just broke my seed bead underneath but i'm

not going to worry about that crimson still stay in place

okay now the part where i i said wrong

is i had you just cut right above the seed beads before but don't go up to

they will fit in if you know two above the um your row of seed beads it's going to go

in the connector that way all your strings won't start

falling off oops

sorry one of my connect one of my crimpers has a cutter at the end

and i should still get another cutter there

and i'm going to cut these right above the cramps

down

so i put that first ball in there i don't want to wrap that make sure the wire the

silver silk is kind of wrapped around there

now you want to make sure these this slot is open enough it's not

i found if i found something flat like i ran these um so there's a third to open it up more

because you can always kind of crimp it close you know with chain nose pliers or something

afterwards

now the size i'm using here are size 25.4

so that'll give enough room for these you know to move those around

i'm going to open that up a little bit more in the end my other end went through really

smoothly

make sure that wire ends are in there

Attach slide connector

let me turn the other and make the other end work better

there's room in there since i'm using size 11s and these cl these

slide connectors can use up to size eight so see i'm just sliding it right through

and i know there's room in this because my first bracelet i used a size um

18 i mean it was old silver silk you know 18 millimeter slide connector it

was old silver silk so it wasn't as thick as the really nice quality silver silk i mean by saying old it was pre

kneeling so i mean i just pushed the last in and now we're going to just close this down

and then i'll just kind of tighten these ends

okay so let's see do i have a

measuring thing

from connector to connector

this measures six inches but you know i had taken off one section

of these fire you know like that on each end of the red ones

so um and my class is going to add another inch so you know if

if you have a six inch wrist and then your clasp for six and a half that's going to work beautifully

but you can also find like um a a bigger clasp put on this

or a wire wrap like i said before that's it for our tutorial thank you for

Wrap up

joining me just wanted to show you the bracelet on my wrist um as you could see it was a little too

short so i um wire wrapped a couple beads the back you know i might have liked to have bigger beads to make a

little bit wider here or you could even use like links and wire up some um some

of the fire polished beads and the links and then i just use the magnetic clasp

you know there's even some clasps like i used one in a project that was like one and a half inches long and that might

you know as a toggle clasp and that would fit in here and look like the decoration so you know there's a lot of options for

when you make the um bracelet too short but like i said there's a lot of people that could still

wear it when it says size i just couldn't um so thanks again and um please read

the description for any um links or um you know you may want to have and

i'm in chat posted links too we decided right before i started recording this that

the links that we would treat this like the jewel school video

joe loom school video this week since jules and trish are at

bead fest so um and also remember to check out our blog um which you'll find a lot of um

the past tutorials besides the current ones in there um and just by looking at the picture

you'll find quickly what you want to look for so i hope you all have an evening a great evening and thank you for joining

me take care

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