Making Window Valances: Securing Pendant Bead

Video Transcript

"Now I will show you how to knot off if your pennant bead has a hole that runs through it to the side instead of running through it to the bottom. Here you will just take your thread and put it through your side hole and pull up about four or five inches, enough to knot it and again just a simple knot making a loop and then putting the pennant through the loop and bring the knot down as close as you can to the top of the pennant and pull that tight. That is nice and secure and now you will add on a few beads, first we want to trim off that extra thread and then add on a few beads for decoration on the top of the pennant and then we will begin again with putting our crimp on and working our way from the bottom of the pennant to the top of the string. So we have a few beads for the pennant. When you add a few of the small beads to the top of the pennant bead it just gives it a nice look, a real jeweled look and then next we will add on our crimp bead and start our next cluster. O'kay so you pull this down, decide where your crimp bead will be and you can adjust the distance of your crimp bead by just with the pliers grasping the crimp bead and just moving it up and down until you decide where you want it to be and then give it a good squeeze to crimp that on there nice and tight and then you just add your next step of beads, your next cluster and continue on until you get to the top or to the length of the string that you want it to be. "