How to sew on beads
Single beads and rows.
Step by step
- Secure the thread where the first bead goes.
- Pass through the bead and back down beside it.
- Secure single beads on the wrong side.
- For back stitch beading, string 3 beads, go down at the end, come up one bead back and go back through the last bead.
- For a long line, string beads and tack between them with a second thread.
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