How to Add Beaded Fringe to Brick Stitch Bead Weaving

[@47bettie]

Thank you for sharing the fringe info and tips! Very pretty earrings!!!

[@beadaholique]

Glad this was helpful, thanks for watching!

[@sue7777]

Very pretty earring design-love the colorway, it reminds me of neapolitan ice cream-yum, yum. Thanks, Kat, for sharing this fringe info with us.

[@sonalideorukhkar1913]

lovely, how u did top portion

[@beadaholique]

Full instructions can be found on our site: beadaholique.com/collections/beading-projects/products/neopolitan-fringe-earrings Thanks for watching!

[@michellewalsh5555]

I love that pattern. My question is, is there a way you can tighten up the fringe to the top part of the earring? I made some earrings and the fringe is starting to come apart from the top part, so I need to tighten it back up. Any suggestions?

[@beadaholique]

You can tighten it by running a new thread through the fringe (don't take out the old), just run a new thread where ever it needs tightening up. This should work.

[@michellewalsh5555]

@@beadaholique thank you for replying. I tried that and it worked great.

[@bettecassida]

Do you have a pattern for the brick stitch? I'm new to this

[@beadaholique]

Hi! If you click on this link beadaholique.com/products/neopolitan-fringe-earrings It will take you to the project page. Then you can click on "Printer Friendly PDF" - the pdf will have the brick stitch pattern for you (for free).

[@christinerawirih2492]

Thank you

[@jennyleigh9071]

Love the earring and your channel. I am very new to beading. Only 2 months. Can you give me some tips on Fringe and over all issues when your a new beader. Fringe this length I don’t have any gaps. But if its over 50 beads. I had to start over. I am good with the triangle part of brick stitch. I only usedCzech seeds primary. I add 2 beads in my brick stitch so when you add in fringe I see the loops on the ladder stitch row. Also adding in fringe no problems but I see my thread some times. I always added 2 instead of one.How would you position your earring so you don’t have so many tangles when your working on the fringe. When you are creating a pattern how do you now what’s beads in order to color. Thank you kindly! Jenny

[@beadaholique]

Hi Jenny, welcome to the hobby! So the biggest thing we see new beaders struggle with is thread tension. This can be especially difficult in fringe beading and it could be causing some gaps and bunching in your longer fringe pieces. Unfortunately proper tension's also difficult for us to teach because it doesn't show up on camera well. The important thing is to keep the tension of your thread consistent. As you practice you'll develop a better feeling for how taut your thread is and you'll be able to adjust how you're pulling it in order to help keep it consistent. Regarding the tangles, I recommend waxing your thread with beeswax, it acts as conditioner and helps avoid tangles: beadaholique.com/products/beadsmith-beeswax-thread-strengthening-conditioner-for-beads-quilting-crafting As far as color goes, I'm not sure I'm reading your question right but if you're wondering how to decide what colors to include in a pattern and how we choose what colors to pair together, that's mostly a creative process. There are books and videos on color theory for designers and those can give you some basic rules of thumb, but a lot of it comes from taking note of what colors you already like, and then getting creative with those through trial and error. We often make small test swatches of beadwork to see if a color combination works before we make a whole pattern. Think of it as beading for research reasons. We also have a collection of seed bead palettes with color combo hand picked by our designers to go well together. These are a great way to start building up your bead collection: beadaholique.com/collections/seed-beads?_=pf&pf_t_product_type=0-Product-Type%3AExclusive%20Beadaholique%20Color%20Palettes

[@jennyleigh9071]

@@beadaholique Thank you for your response! You guys seem like the experts. I wish I could show you my work. I will keep practicing. Your channel is awesome and I did order the beeswax from your website. Thank you Again, Jenny

[@beadaholique]

We love seeing people's work, it's really too bad KZbin doesn't do photos well. But hey we're on most major social media as @Beadaholique so do look us up and tag us in a picture if you'd like. Glad I could help, and thanks for your order!

[@jennyleigh9071]

@@beadaholique Will do. I decided to try using Fire-line for the whole project. I don’t have gaps and it’s hanging fine. I realized tension is very important. I bought this thread at Micheals and it looks just like the thread in your video. But, it frayed, separated and when I added thread you could see the fuzzy parts in between the beads. I will be buying thread from your site instead so I know what I am getting. I finished the earring in a shorter time. I added some bugle beads and crystals in the middle. FYI. I watched the Challenge Yesterday on Facebook and was rooting for you guy’s! I do better with the plastic thread. Kind Regards, Jenny :)

[@beadaholique]

​@@jennyleigh9071 That's a good solution. FireLine can make it much easier to maintain good tension with because it doesn't stretch like nylon (It doesn't separate either, yikes!). Once you have more practice nylon thread will be worth another look for fringe, because it has that wonderful flexibility that can help fringe wave, but FireLine is never a bad thing to gain experience with. We do probably 80% of our beading work with FireLine, it's foundational. Thanks for rooting for us in the Challenge, Sarah had a lot of fun doing that!

[@asabidop1302]

Porque no inicio con el triangulo inicial muy bello pero todos se inician del principio y poderlo hacer saludos!

[@shavonking7120]

Where do I find this pattern printout?

[@beadaholique]

Here is a link to the pattern and instructions: beadaholique.com/products/neopolitan-fringe-earrings Thanks for watching!

[@sagievy]

I love those earrings! Do you have tutorial for them? Thanks for sharing :)

[@beadaholique]

We have additional instructions on our direct site here: beadaholique.com/collections/beading-projects/products/neopolitan-fringe-earrings Thanks for watching!

[@DIY_EASY_IDEAS]

Wow great

[@onehandedcreations6364]

Could I still purchase the kit and if the pattern still available?

[@beadaholique]

Hi, we don't have a kit for this but we do have a free pattern for it, and the individual components can also be purchased on our site. To see the pattern go the project page linked below and click the button that says "Printer Friendly PDF", you'll see the pattern on the last page of the PDF: beadaholique.com/collections/beading-projects/products/neopolitan-fringe-earrings

[@onehandedcreations6364]

@@beadaholique thank you so much. Just saved the pattern.

[@beadaholique]

​@@onehandedcreations6364 Happy to help! Hope you enjoy your earrings!

[@onehandedcreations6364]

@@beadaholique Thank you. I am planning on making a few pairs, one for myself & a few to give away as gifts. I mostly work with one hand since I have limited use of my right hand & fingers. This is actually the first time I will ever try making fringe earrings. 😀

[@beadaholique]

@@onehandedcreations6364 Earrings make such good gifts for friends, especially beaded ones like these, people can really see the time you put in. Good luck making your first pair of fringe earrings, we've done a few videos on this sort of technique over the years so if you run into any issues let me know, we're always happy to help!

[@preethij0864]

Awesome 👏

[@beadaholique]

Thanks! 💖

[@brendafreeman8714]

Hi I just found your video , the thread your using in the video , can I use it on seed beads please ?

[@beadaholique]

Hi Brenda, yes you can totally use that thread with a variety of seed beads. It's NYMO beading thread, one of our staples beadaholique.com/products/nymo-nylon-beading-thread-size-d-for-delica-beads-ivory-64yd-58-meters

[@VioletSkye19]

Would love to see a video on adding thread or how to add a couple of rows or so of brick stitch onto a component and then fringe added to that to make earrings as it seems a popular way of doing it, but I can’t find any one single clear video on doing that and am having to take bits of information from a pile of different videos from different people on how to do it and I’m just not sure if it’s the only or best way to do it.

[@tinajeffery7151]

Nice.

[@PhillBeads]

Lovely

[@beadaholique]

Thank you!