Russian snake stitch
Japanese cylinder beads frame round crystals or fire-polished beads in an easy variation of a daisy chain. 1 Center a needle on 2-4 yd. 1.8-3.7m of conditioned thread Basics, p. 10 . Working with doubled thread, pick up eight color A cylinder beads and eight color B cylinder beads, leaving a 6-in. 15cm tail. Go through all the beads again figure 1, a-b , tighten them into a ring, and tie a surgeon's knot Basics . 2 Sew through five As, pick up a 4mm fire-polished bead or crystal, and sew...
Basics
Position the crimp bead in the hole of the crimping pliers that is est to the handle. 1 Holding the wires I apart, squeeze the tool to compress the crimp bead, making sure one re is on each side of the dent, j Place the crimp ead in the front hole I of the tool, and posii it so the dent is facing outward. Squeeze the l tool to fold the crimp in half. Plain loops and jump rings opening and closing ring with two pairs of chainnose pliers or To open the loop or jump ring, bring the tips of one...
Basics 1
To make a turn without having thread show on the edge or adding an edge bead, sew down through the end bead in the previous row and up through the second-to-last bead in the previous row, and continue through the last bead added a-b . Pick up two beads, sew down through the next bead in the previous row, and sew up through the following bead b-c . Continue adding pairs of beads across the row. Using this turn will flatten the angle of the edge bead, making the edge stack look a little different...