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Summary: Make your own handmade window valance. Learn how to use a center bead for the focal point of your design in this free craft video about making beaded window valances.
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"Now we're ready to string our center bead. This is our, we're using a nice big focal bead for our center. And this is strung with a hole in the top so I'm going to put my string through that little hole in the top. And I'm going to take both want to have, you know, it?s a pretty long length so that you can have what to work with and what to not with, pull the two pieces together and just do a simple knot like that to attach that nice focal bead and pull it nice and tight. And then we'll string the rest. Oops, where's my scissor. Cut off the excess. And again we'll add another crimp bead to that. A little teeny crimp bead. And we'll bead our clusters up to the top."
eHow Article: Making Window Valances: String Center Bead
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