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Step 6Ready your LEDs!
Using your pliers, take an LED and bend the leads so that they are at a 90 degree angle - this will help the LED will lay flat against your fabric. Bend the leads so that they are facing opposite each other.
Then grab a hold on the end of one lead and twist into a small loop. Spiral it around until you are almost all the way to the bulb (we leave a little room at about the dent in the lead).
Do this to both sides until you have what looks like a bead-type-object. You will be using the loops to sew the LED onto your fabric. We mark our 'power' lead with a small dab of nail polish to make it easier to identify which loop to sew to the power line. "To help you identify which lead is power and ground: the anode (power or +) is the longer of the two and the cathode (ground or -) is the shorter and is on the side of the LED that is flattened (when viewing from above).
Make a bunch to play with!
Then grab a hold on the end of one lead and twist into a small loop. Spiral it around until you are almost all the way to the bulb (we leave a little room at about the dent in the lead).
Do this to both sides until you have what looks like a bead-type-object. You will be using the loops to sew the LED onto your fabric. We mark our 'power' lead with a small dab of nail polish to make it easier to identify which loop to sew to the power line. "To help you identify which lead is power and ground: the anode (power or +) is the longer of the two and the cathode (ground or -) is the shorter and is on the side of the LED that is flattened (when viewing from above).
Make a bunch to play with!
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