How Do You Brick Stitch Using All Bugle Beads?
The brick stitch, also known as the bugle stitch or Cheyenne stitch, is a beading basic. Native Americans like the Comanche and Iroquois used this stitch with bugle beads to decorate bags, hair bands and wrist bands. Most beginners use seed beads as they learn to brick stitch, but bugle beads will work just as well. Thread your needle and add one bugle bead. Tie a triple-knot around the bead at the tail of the thread, leaving 2 inches of thread free. Push the needle through the bead again. Add another bead to the thread. Don’t worry about creating a color pattern, random colors are fine. Loop the needle around and, again, through the first bead, from bottom to top. This loop should enclose the second bead. Make sure the bugle beads are lined up next to each other. Lay the threaded beads in a straight line on a table with the needle on your left. Form a loop with the thread by turning the needle to face the beads. Push the needle through the second bead, from left to right. Add another
