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Tubular Lattice Netting

Used in Project Three

Tubular lattice netting results in an open-work bead fab-ric. A new row is woven by taking the needle through a bead of the previous row at regular intervals. This tech-nique is usually worked over multiples of four, so the total number of beads in the base strand should be at least 40 and divisible by four.

To make a sample. String a dark bead then three light beads. Repeating this combination, pick up a total of 40 beads. Allow a one-quarter inch space between the last bead and the knot. Tie into a circle. Place the circle over a support (see Lightweight Supports for Beading, page 7). Working from right to left, take the needle through the dark first bead to the left of the knot. Pick up a light, a dark and a light bead and take the needle through the fourth bead to the left of the knot — a dark bead. Again pick up a light, a dark and a light bead and go through the next dark bead to the left of the last con-nector bead (figurę A-12). Continue beading around the base strand.

When you reach the knot, it is time to do the step-up and merge the boginning and end of the row. Take the needle back through the first bead to the left of the knot and up through the first two beads in the group of three that began row two (figurę A- l 3). You should have exited the dark middle bead. This second pass through the connec-tor bead of the base strand and the first two beads of the row is the step-up.

To begin row three. Pick up a light, a dark and a light bead and again take the needle back through the next dark middle bead of the loop of the previous row (figurę A-l 3). Try practicing using a single color unlil you're surę

of the stitch.

Figurę A-J3

Connector Beads

Figurę A-12

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