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Shallow Bead Tube Pupa

Nick Thomas
Easy
  1. Run on the thread behind the bead and take around the bend in touching turns.
  2. Taper the end of a piece of tube at a shallow angle, tie in and bind down up the hook.
  3. Wind the tube forward in overlapping turns, tie in and remove the waste end.
  4. Dub the thorax.
  5. Tie in a partridge and a CDC feather by their tips and wind a couple of turns while stroking the fibres back.
  6. Add a little more dubbing against the bead, smear the thread with varnish and whip finish.
Materials
Hook Hends BL554 #8/10
Bead Iridescent glass seed bead
Thread 12/0 olive brown
Abdomen Green bead tube
Thorax Get Slotted hare and squirrel dubbing
Hackles CDC and partridge

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