Beaded harnesses have recently become fashionable. Especially attractive are large ornaments crocheted from small beads and covered with patterns. The creation of such harnesses is painstaking work, it takes a lot of time, but it is worth learning by yourself. At least for the pleasure of the process itself and the opportunity to make a gift to yourself and your loved ones.
Before you start knitting a string of beads made of small beads and with an ornament, you need to learn the basics of creating such strands and practice on larger beads.
You need to understand what an air loop, a half-column and a single crochet are. No other special knowledge is required to create a crocheted bead braid.
A set of beads on a thread
The first step in creating knitted plaits is a set of beads on a thread. This stage sometimes takes longer than the actual knitting.
Choose beads: any size and shape will do. Even uneven beads will look good, but truly high-quality beads will ennoble your jewelry. If you need to make a tourniquet with an ornament, you need to choose one of the numerous dialing schemes that provide the desired result. The scheme must be followed exactly, otherwise the pattern will turn out with errors. If you use alternating beads of different sizes, the crocheted tourniquet will look embossed or even bend in waves.
When collecting beads, remember that you should never cut the thread from the ball. In total, you need to dial about 1-3 meters of beads to make a bracelet or beads. The length of the set depends on the size of the beads - the smaller it is, the more you will need it. You need to take the thread for knitting of medium thickness, preferably thin Iris without lurex. Hook size - 1 - 1.5 mm. You need to collect beads with a needle. Thread a thin thread through the needle, tie it around the main thread for knitting, and then draw the beads moving from the needle along the thin thread to the thick thread towards the ball.
How to tie the front rows
The second stage is crocheting a bundle of beads collected on a thread.
The first row consists of air loops, each of which is tied with beads. The thickness of the bundle depends on the number of beads in each row. A classic plait is usually knitted from 6 beads in diameter. When making an air loop, you need to grab the bead, moving it closer to the hook.
The second row will consist of the same number of beads as in the first row, each of them must be located strictly above the “own” bead of the first row. Without removing the last loop of the first row from the hook, insert it into the first loop of the first row, move the bead to the right of the hook, move the new bead on the thread to the loop. Crochet a new bead and insert the thread through the bead loop of the first row and the loop that was originally on the hook. This is a single crochet crochet that is suitable for narrow beaded strands. It is more convenient to knit a column with larger bundles in diameter.
How to finish knitting a string of beads
The third and subsequent rows are knitted in the same way. The main difficulty at the very beginning is not to confuse the loops and not to knit two beads over one or not to skip part of the loops of the previous row. Carefully count how many beads are in each row, follow. To match the number. After the 5-6th rows, it is easier to knit a string of beads, it is almost impossible to get tangled. Knit in a circle. Until you get the result you want.
If the collected beads run out too early, you can continue the tourniquet. To do this, collect more beads, and then tie the remaining end of the thread and the end of a new one so that the knot is located inside the bundle.
It is simple to finish a bead harness: tie a knot at the end, fasten a pin ring inside the harness for its walls, put on a metal cap, bend the second end of the pin into a ring and attach a lock. Do the same with the second end of the tourniquet.
