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    Double CRAW: Basic Instructions English Version

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    1) Double CRAW is a 3D beading stitch that builds upon the RAW and CRAW stitches. It involves making cube-shaped units with core beads surrounded by edge beads on all sides. 2) The instructions walk through how to make a single cube unit, connecting multiple units together to form rows, and adding more rows on top to create a sturdy stacked structure. 3) Examples are given for making bracelets using different patterns of cube units, and combining Double CRAW with traditional CRAW stitches for variety. The stitch offers opportunities for creative color combinations within and across the cube units.

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    1) Double CRAW is a 3D beading stitch that builds upon the RAW and CRAW stitches. It involves making cube-shaped units with core beads surrounded by edge beads on all sides. 2) The instructions walk through how to make a single cube unit, connecting multiple units together to form rows, and adding more rows on top to create a sturdy stacked structure. 3) Examples are given for making bracelets using different patterns of cube units, and combining Double CRAW with traditional CRAW stitches for variety. The stitch offers opportunities for creative color combinations within and across the cube units.

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    1) Double CRAW is a 3D beading stitch that builds upon the RAW and CRAW stitches. It involves making cube-shaped units with core beads surrounded by edge beads on all sides. 2) The instructions walk through how to make a single cube unit, connecting multiple units together to form rows, and adding more rows on top to create a sturdy stacked structure. 3) Examples are given for making bracelets using different patterns of cube units, and combining Double CRAW with traditional CRAW stitches for variety. The stitch offers opportunities for creative color combinations within and across the cube units.

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    Double CRAW: Basic Instructions English Version

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    1) Double CRAW is a 3D beading stitch that builds upon the RAW and CRAW stitches. It involves making cube-shaped units with core beads surrounded by edge beads on all sides. 2) The instructions walk through how to make a single cube unit, connecting multiple units together to form rows, and adding more rows on top to create a sturdy stacked structure. 3) Examples are given for making bracelets using different patterns of cube units, and combining Double CRAW with traditional CRAW stitches for variety. The stitch offers opportunities for creative color combinations within and across the cube units.

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    The key takeaways are that the Double CRAW stitch creates 3D cube structures by combining core beads within edge beads and connecting adjacent cubes. It offers possibilities to combine colors and add other stitches or beads for customization.

    The Double CRAW stitch creates 3D cube structures by using core beads surrounded by edge beads to form walls and floors. It is similar to the CRAW stitch but adds an extra dimension. The 'Super RAW' stitch is the flat version. It gets its name because it doubles the number of axes from each unit.

    To construct a Double CRAW cube, you begin with a floor of core and edge beads. Then you add the first wall by alternating core and edge beads. Additional walls are added in the same manner, connecting to adjacent cubes until a complete cube is formed.

    Double CRAW

    Basic instructions english version


    The whole idea for double CRAW started when I embellished a RAW
    strap with some filling beads, this strap became a multi row band, this
    one morphed into a zipped tube and then I thought, why not make it as
    some kind of CRAW version in 3D.
    Where this technique is neither very complex nor complicarte, I don‘t
    think I am the first one to make it, but I did not see it as a systematic
    stitch, so I wanted to introduce you to it.

    My research for a stitch like this brought me to Gwen Fisher. She named
    SRAW (Super RAW) which is the flat version of this stitch.

    During a workshop weekend in Floirida I introduced it to


    Marcia DeCoster and she really liked it (in other words I think I got her
    hooked on it ;-) ). Her husband Mark suggested to call it Double CRAW
    and I liked the idea. You will see later on why.
    This stitch offers a multitude of possibilities to combine with other stit-
    ches and it doubles the number of axis you have to continue from it as a
    base.

    I suggest to try the stitch with size 8° seed beads in two colors.

    Step 1
    String 4 beads in color A and make a ring by reinforcing the first bead.

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    Step 2
    String one bead in color B and pass
    through the following A. Repeat three
    more times. The thread will exit from
    one color B bead.

    The inner beads (here mint/A) are your


    core beads, the outer ones, (here purple/
    B) are the edge beads. This first comple-
    ted unit is the floor of your cube.

    Step 3
    String four core beads and
    pass again through the edge
    bead you exited from. Pro-
    ceed into the first core bead.

    Step 4
    String one edge bead and
    pass through the following
    core bead. Repeat two more
    times.
    This is your first wall.
    Proceed into the second
    edge bead of your floor and
    exit here.

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    Step 5
    String four core beads and pass
    again through the edge bead you
    exited from. Proceed into the first
    core bead.

    Step 6
    String one edge bead and pass into
    the next core bead. Repeat once
    more. In the third position pass
    through the edge bead of the adja-
    cent unit instead of adding a new
    one. Pass through the last core bead,
    the edge bead where you started
    from and from there onto the next
    edge bead on your floor.

    Step 7
    Make the third wall exactly
    like the second one.

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    Step 8
    String four core beads and
    pass again through the
    edge bead you exited from.
    Proceed into the first core
    bead.

    Step 9
    Pass through the edge bead of the adjacent unit. Proceed into the next
    core bead, string one edge bead. Pass through the following core bead,
    then through the edge bead of the adjacent wall, then into the last core
    bead.

    Now the four walls of the cube


    are connected. Proceed through
    the beads and exit from one
    edge bead at the upper opening
    of the cube.

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    Sgtep 10
    String four core beads and pass again through the edge bead you exited
    from. Reinforce the round of core beads and pass through the adjacent
    edge bead, each time you exit from a core bead.

    Now your first cube is completed. Add a second one on top of the first.
    As you know from CRAW, the lid of the one cube is the base of the next.
    After the first couple of cubes you will see how sturdy the structure be-
    comes. As you can see, you will add FOUR core beads in each wall. The
    outside beads instead are acting as you know from CRAW, as they share
    with the neighbour wall. Where the core beads are separated, you can
    play with colors by using a different one for the core beads on each side.

    The bracelet on the title is a simple zig zag line of three cubes in the
    short row and 5 cubes in the long one. On one edge I did put 4mm
    bicones in between the edge beads.

    You can also start a classical CRAW unit from one walls‘ core beads. A
    line of alternating DCRAW units abnd CRAW units looks quite nice.

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    I hope you have fun playing with this stitch!

    This is a free pattern, you may


    share it just as you like.
    Yours
    Sabine Lippert
    www.Trytobead.com

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