Adding thread in beading?

[michelle]

I am working on my first beaded bezel. My 4th try. I think I’m going to need to add thread. How do I do that?

[Sophy]

Michelle, Cat and Caroline are more expert than me, but the way I do it is to weave the thread through some previously worked beads, zigging and zagging, and bring the new thread out where the old thread is waiting.

I tie off the old thread by weaving it back into the earlier stitching, again zigging and zagging. You can tie a knot at the end and pull it into the last bead, or zap it with a threadburner if you have one.

[caeterle]

What Carole said.

I guess it's a peyote bezel? Here's just one video if you want to see it, there are a lot of those on YouTube.

[michelle]

Thanks to you both, ladies! So it’s kind of like we do with the yarn tails in crochet. 😄 But I will also look at the video.

[lotty64]

I think Jill Wisemans videos are among the best for learning how to do basics of bead weaving. If you watch her you will not go far wrong.

[michelle]

Thanks so much, Caroline! I appreciate the recommendation!

[Irith-Rita]

These videos remind me that every now and again, I would like to try beading again, a small break from metalsmithing. I have actually began my jewelry making with beads and beading many years ago, but then I fell in love with metalwork. I still own books with beading instructions before U-tube took over, which I keep.

[lotty64]

Irith it is funny that you say that as I am at the stage where I would like to try metalsmithing.