How to Easily Rope Stitch Beads
If you are an avid beader than you are used to wearing your creations and having people walk right up to you to admire your handmade jewelry. Create a rope stitch beaded chain and people will be standing in line to ask you how you made it. A beaded rope stitch looks complex but is really very easy to create. Pick up a couple packages of beads, grab a needle and thread and you can have the start of a beautiful rope stitch beaded chain in just a few minutes.
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Instructions
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Cut a yard and a half of beading thread. Thread it through a needle. Run a needle and thread through a green bead two or three times to establish the anchor for the beaded rope. Thread on three additional green beads and then five blue beads.
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Come back around and push the needle and thread through the three green beads again and pull the thread tight. The string of blue beads will be pulled back along side the three green beads.
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String on one green bead and five more blue beads. Bring the needle and thread back around and pass them through the last two green beads added. Pull the needle and thread tight.
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Pass the needle and thread through the last green bead added and pull tight. Rotate the last series of blue beads over to the right.
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Begin again at Step 3. Repeat Steps 3 and 4 continuously until the bead rope is the length desired. Add one last green bead passing the needle and thread through it three of four times to anchor off the end off the beaded rope.
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Tips & Warnings
Consider changing bead colors as you work to add interesting visual change to your spiral beaded rope.
Attach a toggle clasp to finish off the beaded rope necklace.
