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You'll find many more instructional beading videos on our website, ranging in difficulty so that novice and expert beaders alike can learn new skills! After you've finished the Learn to Bead series to get down the basics, pick up some more beading fundamentals with our Basic Beading Techniques videos, and browse our How-To Projects for instructional videos that will teach you how to make a project from start to finish.įeatured Video: Learn To Bead Video #1: All About Beads Additionally, you'll learn how to properly open and close jump rings and create simple wire loops-both vital skills to many jewelry projects.
Watch our Learn to Bead Video Series, and you'll be beading like a pro in no time! This video series introduces some jewelry terms that are essential to know, and will teach you some fundamental skills necessary for basic jewelry making. Read on and find instructional videos, project tutorials, and product recommendations to introduce basic skills and techniques and get you started on your jewelry making journey. If you are following the pattern and the word, you may want to trim the pattern from the top of the page and turn it to the side so it sits the way that the word chart is set up.Welcome to Beadaholique! If you're new to jewelry making, this should be your first stop before exploring our other techniques and guides, which include valuable "bead-ucation" resource pages such as Stringing 101, Bead Weaving 101 and more. The word chart works from the bottom left-hand corner up. Like the other patterns, the Love two-drop peyote stitch pattern is available for download at the link. It makes your patterns much more fun when you can center designs! Note that the difference is very slight and it will only take one project to learn odd count peyote, so never avoid learning the odd count version. Even count peyote stitch is always slightly easier than odd count peyote stitch. Since the first row of the Love affirmation pattern uses six columns of two beads each, it is an even count peyote stitch. Like regular peyote stitch, there is an even count version of the stitch and an odd count version of the stitch. The basics of two drop peyote stitch are the same as regular peyote stitch, except you pick up two beads per stitch. The Love affirmation bracelet peyote pattern uses a variation of flat peyote stitch called two drop peyote.