Skeins of embroidery thread always have a loose thread.
This thread is one of the ends and if you pull gently, it will come out without tanglin you dont even have take off the paper wrappers, so your skeins of thread will stay tidy.
Threads scissors adhesive
Lay one end of the thread across your palm. Let the very end dangle off the side of your hand between your thumb and index finger.
This is the path of the thread: across your palm, between your ring finger and you little finger, around your little finger, back across your palm. Between your thumb and index finger, around your thumb. The thread criss-cross in the centre of your palm. Youre making two sets of loops like the wings of a butterfly.-one set around your thumb. Hold the threads in one hand and hold the loop in the other. Hold the circle of threads together at the cross, and slip it off your index finger. Now put the free loop end of the thread through the circle and start to pull the end tight. You can move the loose knot up the thread to get a smaller loop at the top. The loop is part of the fastening of
the bracelet, so you must be able to slip a braided end thought it easily.
Hold the knotting thread thread 1- in your right hand.
Pick up thread number 2-the first base thread- whit the middle, ring and little fingers of your left hand. Leave your left thumb and index finger free. Make a sail shape with your knotting thread. The sail shape points to the left. The sail thread crosses over the base thread. Use your left index finger and thumb to keep the threads together where they cross. Feed the end of the knotting thread up through the sail shape. Hold the base thread tight and straight, and pull the knot up to the top of the base thread.
Note: your knot should always be the colors if the knotting thread.iif you hold the base thread loosely, and tighten your knot by pulling on both threads, your knot may be the color of the base thread. Tie another knot with thread 1 around thread 2. Make the sail shape, feed the end throught, hold the base thread taut and pull the knot right up to the top. Keep the knotting thread in your right hand. You dont need to let go of it until youve knotted all the way over to the right side. Put a side thread 2. With your knotting thread, tie two knots around thread 3, thread 4. Remember the order of your colours, and dont let your work flip over.
Pick up your new knotting thread-thread 1-in your right hand. Remember you can hang on to it until youve finished knotting over on the right. Start you next stripe by making two knots with your knotting thread on each thread from left to right-threads 2, 3 and 4. The thread on the left is always thread 1. The thread on the right is always thread 4. Pull each knot in this second row quite tightly. You want each knot to be tucked up against the stitches in the first row. When youve completed a couple of rows, the knots will keep the threads apart and youll be able to see which thread comes next in the knotting order. The fourth row will start to repeat the color order. If your first row was red and you have three colors, the fourth row will be red too.
As you knot your bracelet, always remember to start with the thread on the left, and tie two knots on each thread all the way over to the right.
