I did a search and found someone selling that pattern booklet on etsy … and better still this seller was in Canada. I never knew where the original pattern came from but then a visitor to my site let me know it was originally by Qualicraft. I have a pattern available to print that is my version of a pattern shared with me many years ago on a crafting bulletin board. This has proved to be one of the most popular posts on my site … an old craft that is becoming popular again. You could use long strips of material or even extra wide ribbon. I’m not available in stores, but it does turn up in thrift stores from time to time. You may find you need to switch to a thinner needle.Do you remember the old craft of braiding long strips to make a cover for a wire coat hanger? The original material was Nylotex or Phentex, a stretchy, nylon material. Weave the thread ends into the loom-woven bead strip. Working from the center out toward the ends, move the beads to fill in the open space on the ends where you can see the warp threads. This isn’t easy – kind of like the beginning rows but this time you’re really fitting the beads into place against other beads. Work your pattern and make sure to squeeze in the last row of beads. Continue adding beads following your pattern. Repeat Step 2 but this time use the sharp end of the needle as you work back across the beads. Note: This is not easy the first time, the fifth time, the fiftieth time! Take your time. Thread on your first row of beads. Press the beads up through the warp threads. Pass your needle, eye end first, through the beads working from right to left, making sure you are above the warp threads. Pass the thread, from left to right, under the warp threads. Anchor the end of the thread to the loom.
This design at 6-1/2″ long takes about 5-6 yards of thread I work with about 2-1/2 yards at a time. Add a needle to a comfortable length of thread. Repeating all the way across so every other thread is above the separator. Insert the warp separator, passing it working from right to left, over the first warp thread, under the next. I’m using a clasp that slides over the end of the beadwork and, determined with Delicas, the design needs to be 12 beads wide for this size clasp. Once you establish your warp threads, you can’t change the length.Įstablish your warp threads.
Set up your beading loom according to manufacturer’s instructions and based on the length of your design.
It took me me right back to those hot summer days. All things I remember well, along with being really hot and thirsty! (We didn’t carry water bottles around with us “back then.”)įast forward to today, looking at all we do and create during the summer months, how many of us still draw from those early experiences? I know I do and I know it gave me a thrill to sit down and create a new loom-woven bracelet on the new Little Ricky Beading Loom. During summer break, my sibs and I would bounce from one park to the next to attend various “camps.” Nock Hockey. Growing up we had a lot of public parks in our area.
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