Free bead crochet instruction

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Please be patient with the animations; depending on the speed of your connection, they may run slowly

.Theywill replay automatically, allowing you as much time as needed to try each step. You will learn to create the chain, andthen you'll be taken through the five steps that make up each stitch after the chain: IN, OVER, DOWN, AROUND,THROUGH. You'll be able to return to each step at any time. In this lesson you'll learn to make a chain that is sixbeads around.

To participate in this lesson (for a simple bracelet), you'll need:

Seed beads, size 8o, in six easily differentiated colors (120 beads per color)Crochet fiber such as #8 or #10 perle cotton (10 yds)Threading needle such as #9 embroidery needleSmall cardboard piece (2 x 4") for winding beaded thread#10 steel crochet hook

STEP 1

Wind your unbeaded fiber onto the card and put the needle onto the end of the fiber. Thread on beads in the patternshown below. Stop when you run out of one color because all patterns must be complete and in precisely the same order.Wind the beaded fiber back onto the card, with about one yard of loose fiber at the end. Do not knot or cut the fiber.

Three full repeats of the threading pattern are shown here. Each repeat of six beads has one each of six different colors.Each repeat after the first is threaded in precisely the same order as the first.

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Free bead crochet instruction

The winding card should have twoholes, one at the top and one at thebottom. You will store your work usingthese holes later.

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Tubular bead crochet tutorial

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STEP 2

Start with a slip knot as shown in the photos, then crochet a chain of six beads. Positionthe first bead close to the slip knot, then wrap the thread over the hook from back to front, towardyou. Catch the wrapped thread in the hook and pull it through the slip knot. Adjust the resultingchain stitch so it is about the same size as the bead. Make six chains all together with the first sixbeads; flip the chain around and position it as shown in the diagram on the right, in preparation forthe next steps.