Tubular Crochet
Please be patient with the animations; depending on the speed of your connection, they may run slowly. They will replay automatically, allowing you as much time as needed to try each step. You will learn to create the chain, and then you'll be taken through the five steps that make up each stitch after the chain: IN, OVER, DOWN, AROUND, THROUGH. You'll be able to return to each step at any time. In this lesson you'll learn to make a chain that is six beads around.
To participate in this lesson (for a simple bracelet), you'll need:
- Seed beads, size 8o, in six easily differentiated colors (120 beads per color)
- Crochet fiber such as #8 or #10 perle cotton (10 yds)
- Threading needle such as #9 embroidery needle
- Small cardboard piece (2 x 4") for winding beaded thread
- #10 steel crochet hook
STEP 1 Wind your unbeaded fiber onto the card and put the needle onto the end of the fiber. Thread on beads in the pattern shown below. Stop when you run out of one color because all patterns must be complete and in precisely the same order. Wind the beaded fiber back onto the card, with about one yard of loose fiber at the end. Do not knot or cut the fiber.
Two full repeats of the threading pattern are shown above. Each repeat of six beads has one each of six different colors. Each repeat after the first is threaded in precisely the same order as the first.
 
The winding card should have two holes (as shown above), one at the top and one at the bottom. You will store your work using these holes later.
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