How to Hide Stitching on Hand Beaded Garments

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My name is Julia Barbee and my clothing line is Frocky JackMorgan. On behalf of Expert Village, this is a tutorial on Recycling and Deconstructing Old Clothes. So, here's kind of the finished product thus far of this shirt that we're embellishing with this other part of a T-shirt and some leather buttons. And I'm going to do some hand-beading on it now. So, I'm trying to lay out the beads that I'm going to need as I want to embellish. If I use a sequin, I need to use a little tiny bead in the middle of it to secure it. So, I'm trying to be sure I have enough of those as I go so that I don't have to fish through my pile in the middle of beading. I have some long beads, and just kind of a variety of different things. So, I think this will be enough to start with. And, I'm just going to kind of make a little pile and then grab from it as I go. So, I'm going to thread another needle. I may need to change to a beading needle, which is really, really thin because a lot of the older beads have very small holes and a regular hand-sewing needle won't fit through those holes. But, I just attach all of the beads with a needle and thread and it's very similar to hand-stitching. You just add a bead with each stitch, rather than no bead. So, I'm going to start with my needle and thread and I'm just going to thread the needle through this piece and pull it taut. And then I'll kind of lay it down to see where it naturally falls and then I will raise the needle back out and that's stitched on now. Then I add this next, pull that through and just continue down the line until I think it's gone as far as I would like for it to. Then I tie a knot in the same way I have along the back side, running through the loop of the needle. So, this is the finished product for our T-shirt. We added some bead work down the side and around the button. We added this patch to cover some stains and added the buttons just to make it a unique garment. It might not be something you would necessarily would make yourself, but you can use the principles in a lot of different ways.

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