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1. Introduction: Hi, and welcome to part four of my beaded jewelry
making series. In this class, you'll create a stunning pair of
waterfall earrings, a modern, elegant design that's perfect for everyday wear
or special occasions. Along the way, you learn
the brick stitch technique, one of the most versatile and essential
beading techniques. Once you master it, you'll be able to use it in many other jewelry designs and expand your creative
possibilities. I'll guide you through
every step of the process, making it easy to follow, whether you're just
getting started or already have some
beating experience. If you're enjoying this series, be sure to explore the previous and upcoming
classes as well. Each project introduces a different design
and new techniques helping you build
your skills and become a more confident
jewelry maker. Let's get started and create a beautiful pair of
earrings together.
2. 1.Starting the Upper Triangle Section: Hello, today, we want
to beat this earring, which is also famous as
a waterfall earring. The middle earring is made
with Japanese uke seed beads. Delica model with size 11 that as you can see
it has a cylinder look. The earrings on the
left and the right are made with check set beads. Size ten, as you
can see this model, this check model is circular. The seed beat size ten
is bigger than size 11. As you can see,
the side earrings which are made with
the set bits of size ten are obviously bigger comparing to
the middle earring, which has been made with
the seedbeds of size 11. Considering all three of
them have nine strands. And the beginning of our
bedding is right up here. So it starts from this beginning of this black row
and it goes up. Then we attach the earring ring. And then we come down and
attach these rows Alright. Now, if you want our
work to be softer, use Nylon thread or silk thread. You see this bracelet is soft. So for this soft bracelet, we use silk thread
or Nylon thread, which gives us a softer
and more flexible work. But if you want our work
to be more rigid and it would be firmer like this
bracelet you can see here, we use the invisible
monofilament thread or the fier line thread. Now, Nylon threads
are in these brands, Sloan Nimo Ko one G. And ki are very good
threads that you can use. And for silk threads,
Piolin silk, which is made in America
is a very good thread, and Griffin silk
thread is a German. So each one of them you can acquire and use them
in your beading. And for beading, for set beads
as the size of ten or 11, the thread should
be 0.2 millimeters, and that would be compatible. Now, silk threads are
usually not waxed. So for easier use, that it wouldn't just get
knotted during your work, and you can work with it
easier or your thread wouldn't get torn apart or be
shredded during your work. It's better if you
can acquire or buy thread wax or bees wax and
then apply it to your threads. You can basically fly
it on your thread, and this actually makes your thread more
resistant to abrasions. And it also makes your thread
more softer and smoother. You can also use thread heaven, which is an artificial
and clear wax, and it doesn't get your
thread just like greasy. So acquire each one of
these that you can or any other wax you're able to get and apply
it to your thread, so your thread would
be a wax thread. Now, look at this earring. It has a very soft
and flexible shape. So I want to use a silk thread in order
to craft it and bead it. You can use either a silk
or a nylon thread for this. So we need thread. Set beads in different
colors. Earring cooks. You see, my dear
friends, you can do it two ways. Just like this. I mean, just like it
can be either like this that this upper triangle
and the lower triangle, which shapes a diamond would be both in one color,
just like this one, or either like this other one, which the upper triangle is in a different color from the lower triangle,
which is in yellow. Now, I want to work
on this style. So as I said before, the beginning of our
beating it would be here. We would be beading
upward toward the top. Then I beat this seed bead loop, and then we come back down
and we add these rows. I take almost 1.5
meter of thread. I want the diamond shape part
of my earring to be red. Therefore, I'll take
four red seed beads. When I take them to
the end of my thread, I keep 15 centimeters from
the end of my thread, and then again, I pass my needle through these two lower
seed beads one more time. You see, my work should
look like this now. Then I pass my needle through
these two and I go down. And from these two
side ones, again, I come back o This would be the
shape of my work, two rows of two set beads
right next to each other. Okay, now from here on, I take seabeds two by two. You see, now my thread
has came out of here. Go through the back
of these two beats. So as you can see, I added
two setbds on the right. Then again, I pass
my needle through these two set beds
that I've just added. Again, I take two
other set beds. And you see, my thread has
came out of this part. So I pass my needle through
the backup my beats. And now I pass my needle through these two seedbeds
that I've just added. So just one more time.
I'll take two seedbeds. My thread has came up here, so I enter my needle from
the back of the set beds. And then again I pass
my it off through these two seed bids
that I've just added. So just remember to
pull your thread in each step so your work would just be
tightened up together. Okay, how long I
should keep going. You see, we have started our beating from
this upper triangle. So it means it's
just right here. These earrings that I've made
here are all in nine rows. So as many rows as you want, you should have a group
of two seed beds. For example, if I
want nine rows, I should have nine group
of two seed beads. You say, for example, mine
right now are one, two, three, and four and five, five pair of seed beads. So if I just want to have
nine rows like this earring, I should continue, so I would have nine pair of seed beads. So right now I've got five. I should do it four more times so I can get it
up to nine pairs. You can increase or decrease this number based
on your own taste. You should just be
careful that you should use odd numbers. It means it should
either be seven, nine, 11, or if you wanted
to have more width, you can have it on 13. And why should you
use odd numbers? Because if you can see in
the middle of these rows, there is one row which is
taller than some others. You see, this is my middle row, which is the tallest. I've got four on one side
and four on the other side. So my work would be symmetrical. Or this is my middle one here, and we have four on each side, and they would be
symmetrical, too. Just two by two with each other. So you should just
continue beating as much as you want
the width to be, and then I'll tell you the rest.
3. 2.Completing the Upper Triangle Section: Okay, I've beaded this for
nine rows and nine pairs. Okay, now, right here,
I turn over my work. You take two beads and pay
attention over here, guys. You see these threads
above my seat beads. I just skip the first one and I pass my needle through
underneath the second one. Now, I come back up from this sea bed from the
one I've just added. I pass through
toward down from the next one, the one next to it. And then, again, from
this one, I go up. I pull my thread
tightly and strongly. See, these two seed beds are actually sitting on
the lower seed beds, and they've created
the third row. Now, from now on, I
only take one seed bed. Only in the beginning
of each row, I take two seabeds. But for the rest of the row, I only take one
seedbed each time. And you see, just
from the next thread. We've passed through this
thread the time before. So this time, we're going to pass my needle through
the next thread. Then again, I come up right from this seed bed that
I've just added. So just like that, I take another seed bed and I pass my needle through the next
thread, which means here. And then again, I go up
from the same seed bed. I'm just going to do
it one more time. I take one seat bead. I pass my needle through the next thread,
which means this one. And then I go up again from the same seat bead
and I've just added. So I'll just do the same thing until I get to the
end of the rope. Okay, I finished this rope. Now again, I turn over my work. And as I told you before, in the beginning of each row, I use two seat beads. Just pull the thread tightly. As we said in the
beginning of our row, we just skip the
first thread and we pass our needle through
underneath the second thread. And then I come up from this Cp. These are the two CPs that
I've just added to my row. I go up from this one and I come down from the other
one, the next one. And again, from this
seat bead, I go up. And from now on, I just continue with adding
one seat bed at a time. I pass my needle through
the next thread. See this thread. In
the previous step, I pass my needle
through this thread. So now I'm going to go
through the next one. Then again, from the
same seabed I come up. I take another seabed and I pass my needle through
the next thread. I go up from the same seatbd. And I'll continue until the
end of my row. All right. This row is also done, so I'll turn over my work again. Obviously, for the
beginning of my row, I take two set beads. I skip the first thread and I pass my needle through
the second thread. I go up from this seatbd. I come down from the
other seatbd next to it, and then again, I go up
from this set bed again. I also put my finger on the set bid so they
wouldn't move too much. You should pull your thread strongly so it could tighten up. Then again, for the
rest of my row, I'm going to use
only one set bed. I take one ipD and I go
through the next thread. Okay. Now I think you've actually got a handle of how we work
and the steps of our work. So it really in the
beginning of each row, I use two iPeds and for
the rest of the row, I take one ipD and I go
through the next thread. This is actually
called brick stitch. Have you seen how bricks are put on top of each other
in building a house? I'm not talking about
the first two rows here, but look at the rest of it. You see these two are
next to each other, and on the top row above them, one set bid is
between these two. You see this one is exactly
in the middle of the two. See, this one is exactly between these two,
just on top of them. Or you see this one is exactly between these
two just on top of them. Okay, and you see in each row, you see in the beginning, we've started with nine
seed beds, right? In the first two rows, we've used nine seed beats. The row above them, which means the third row has
only eight seed beds. The next row, which
is the fourth row has seven seed beds. And other row that
I'm beating right now would be six seed beats. It gets just reduced and
reduced and I continue my bidding until I get
only to the two seedbeds. So I'll continue
the bidding until I get to the two set beats.
4. 3.Starting the Strands: Okay, now I got to the row which I have three
set beds in it, and now I want to do
the last row here. I take two seat beads. And as you can see
on top of here, we only have two threads. You see, I pass my needle
through the second thread. And they're in place. And this would be our last row, which we only have
two seed beads in it. Now, I want to
create a ring with my seed beats so I can
attach earring hooks. Now, this time I take
five seed beads. Now, you see the thread has
came out of the left set bed, so I go through the
right seat bed. I come down through
two seed beads. Alright. And then from the
next two, I go back up. And then again, I pass
my needle through all these five set beds
that I've just added. Now, my thread has passed through these five
set beds twice. Just pass through
two or three times. And then through
these side set beads, just take your needle to
the bottom of your work. They say, I'm going to
show you what I did again. I'm going to pass
by needle through the side set beads right
on the side on the edge. And then I take my needle to the first seabed on the right, or even the left one. It
doesn't matter, really. See just you should never
just pull your needle out. By force, if you think
that it's stuck, you should do it gently. By twisting it. Now, this is my ring that
at the end of my work, I'm just going to
add Earring hooks. Okay, now I've taken my
needle to the bottom part, and now I want to add these vertical rows
or the waterfalls. And as I told you before, the upside down triangle can be in a different color
from the upper one. Or like this work,
the lower triangle would match the same
color as the upper one. It totally depends on
your own personal taste. No, I just want to do
the same color for both. Okay, you see, now
what colors that you want to choose and how many
of them you want to choose. I totally depends on your own
basically personal taste. And as you can see, each
color has a shape over here. For example, look at
this purple color. I've got five seed beads. For green, I took
six seed beads. If you want the width of
your color to be more, obviously, you should
use more seed beads. You should increase the
number or the color that you need the width to be less I
want it to be more narrow, you should choose less numbers. S, my dear friends, I got this combination, five of red, five of yellow, two whites, five greens, five purples, two
whites, and four orange. This would be my combination. Just like that, I
would attach it to the end to the tip of
this triangle part. Now I take one set bead with the same color as
the end of my rope. It can be different, but I want I prefer it to
be the same color. I keep it on the
needle and now I pass my needle through
all of these set beads, you see all at once. So I pass it through all
of these size set bits and plus two of my red set
bits on the triangle. See, my dear friends. I pass
my needle through two of these red set bids on
my triangle as well. See, my dear friends, if I hold this last seat within my
hand and I pull my thread, my work would be
totally stretched and tightened and properly placed. Now again, from the
next two side beats, I come down saying I want to make the second waterfall
or the second row. Now, you see for the
second row because I want it to become a
shape of a diamond. On each row, I add
to the number of this seed beads which have the
same color as my triangle. You see, over here, I have
three white seed beads. But in the next row, it became four set beds. And in the next row, it
became five seed beds. You see, each row that
I'm moving forward, I add one more seed bed as the same color of my
triangle to the whole shape. So the set bed of
the first color in each row would be added one number until it
gets to the middle row. This is the central middle row. And then from the
middle row on, I mean, as we move forward
from the middle row, we just decrease one seed
bed as the first color. I'm only talking about
the first color set bed. It would be decreased by
one until I get to the end. The number of the neck seed beds are definitely not changing. You see the rest of the seed
beds are just like that. Golden, white, golden white. Then again, two golden white, golden white, and then
several black ones. And at last, again, I didn't
choose the black set bed. I choose a different color. So it totally depends
on your own taste, how many of them
you want to use. What colors do you want to use? So it's totally personal. You see? For example,
look at this one. Overall, it has two colors of seat beads that they
come in parallel lines. Okay, now you see my thread has came out of the second row. So I'm just going to add to
my red sea beds one number. In the previous row, I had a five red sea beds, so now I've got to
get six red sea beds. And for the rest
of the set beds, I go exactly the same as I
did in the previous row, the same number in
the same order. So I bet all the seabeds just like that with
the same order, and then I attach
it to my earring. Then I keep one orange
seed bed in my needle, and now I pass my
needle through all of these seed beds all
the way to the top. Just pay attention
that your needle goes through all of
these seed beds, not from the side of them. I keep the last seat
bid in my hand, and then I pull my thread. So I keep moving
up, and as I said, I pass my needle through two of these triangle
seabeds as well. I hold the set bed on the lower part and
I pull my thread. Then I return my needle
through the next two seat beds down so I can beat the third
rope, the third waterfall.
5. 4.Completing the Strands: Okay, if you remember, as we talked about it, we said the first color would be added one
more seed bed to it. So in the previous step, I used six red seed
beads, so now this time, I should use seven of them, and the rest of the
colors would remain in the same order and
the same numbers. So I've just applied and beaded my seed beads
into my thread. As I told you, I keep one
seed bed in my needle. I come up through all
these seed beads. I pass it through two of
the triangle set beds. And then I come down from
the next two seat bets. I come down from the
next two set bits. So now we've got
to the middle row. This would be my
fifth row which was actually the middle and the
central row of my work. As we talked about it, now we should from
the middle and the central row
we're supposed to decrease the red color seed beds by one number in each row. So in my fifth row, I have nine red seed beads. Therefore, for the next row, it would be eight
red seed beads. One after that seven, the one after that six until
I get to the last one, which I use five red
seed beds in it, and they become symmetrical
two by two exactly. It means my last row
would be symmetrical to my first row and identical. My dear friends, just don't
forget that in each step, just hold your
seat bids and pull your thread as hard as you can
to tighten up your things, not too hard to rip
the thread apart. So the row would be attached to the triangle part completely. So, my dear friends, I just continue this work
until the end. And in Itro I decrease the red septs by the number
one. Here we've got eight. The next one would be seven. The next one would be six, and the last one would be fine. And as I said, the rest
of the colors would just stay as the same
number as they were.
6. 5.Attaching the Earring Hooks: Okay, my dear
friend, so I finish these rows and these
waterfalls shapes. Now I go up from some
of these sea beds. Then you see over this
thread which I have here on the edge of my
work, I tie my knot. I tie 2 knots, and then I cut it from the end. Even after you tie the knot, you can actually move through
several sit beds forward, and then there you
can cut the thread. Okay, now about the
10 centimeters thread that we've apt in the
beginning of our work, I thread the needle with it. And I also take it
a few ibts forward. See, my thread is
here right now. I go two beds up
For two of them, my needle is moving hardly, so I would not risk it, so seed bed would
actually break. I just go up from one of them. I passed a needle through the seed bed next
to it on the side. I pull the thread very hard, and right here, I
tie another knot. Again, I pull my thread
strongly and I cut it. With one jump ring, we attach the earring
hook to the earring. Now, before I actually
close up jump ring, I use one drop of E 8,000 glue on this
open part over here. And then I close the
jumping ring very strongly. So this glue actually helps
me to close jump ring firmly, and it wouldn't open again. And also, my silk
thread would not come out of this
bridge we have here. We pushed the two ends of our jump ring
towards each other, so they would stick together and the thread could not get out
of the jump ring anymore. So it would be totally closed. Now, I should give
it a 24 hour time so my glue totally dries out. And it actually closes up
my jump ring, totally. It's kind of like
I've melted these two together and fused them. Obviously, it's not as
strong as fusing something, some metals, but it's really
close, and it does the job. And it avoids the
thread getting out of jump gring my dear friends, even clear epoxy glues or clear UBI glues can
be used in jewelry, and whichever one you can
get and acquire is good. Like these brands that
you're watching right now. Now, these are reusable
earrings in different colors. You can see different patterns
in the video right now. And also, if you just play
with your hands with them, they would totally
be straightened out and they would
get a better shape. But this one is obviously a bit different comparing
to the other three. I mean, the rest of
these three RV shapes, but this one has got a
steep and parallel lines. So I've got every
other color black and gold, blank and gold. I also uploads picture, so you can use it
at a pattern map. And you can beat the rows
exactly the same way. For example, on the first row, we've got five gold, three blacks as we move on. In the second row, one black, five golds, and so on. So I upload this picture for people who would like
to do this pattern. You can also see
this. It contains three colors, black, white, and gold.Thise kind of waterfall
earrings have a lot of variations and varieties and are really beautiful
on your ears. And if you've got any
questions, please do ask. If you enjoyed creating
these projects, don't forget to leave
a rating or a review. The next work which I'm going to teach you
is this beautiful, attractive piece of art. Well, you should be definitely
with us so you can learn the techniques and its hints
completely and thoroughly.
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