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Step 1
Choose a crystal color. | | Step 2
Cut a piece of thread about 3 feet long, and thread your needle. | | Step 3
String 4 beads. |
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Step 4
Bring the beads down toward the end of your thread, leaving a 3-inch tail. Go back through bead A. This will create a ring of beads. | | Step 5
Pass your needle back around the ring of beads (B, C, D) and exit again from bead A. | | Step 6
String 3 beads. |
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Step 7
Go back through bead A. | | Step 8
Go through bead B and bead C. | | Step 9
String 3 beads. |
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Step 10
Go back through bead C. | | Step 11
Go through bead D and bead A. | | Step 12
You should now have a strip of right angle weave that is 3 sections wide. |
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Step 13
Fold the strip so the two ends are next to each other. Bead C and bead A should be side-by-side. | | Step 14
String 1 bead. | | Step 15
To connect the strip of right angle weave into a bead, go up through bead C. |
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Step 16
Pull the thread taut. | | Step 17
String 1 bead. | | Step 18
Go down through bead A. |
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Step 19
Pull the thread taut. This should now be a four-sided bead. | | Step 20
The bead is not stiff and needs to be reinforced. To reinforce the bead, go through bead B, bead C, bead D and then bead A again. | | Step 21
Rotate the bead. |
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Step 22
Continue reinforcing each side of the right angle weave bead several times to make the bead stiff. | | Step 23
Once all sides of the bead have been reinforced, cut the thread. | |
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