down through the previous column, then back up through the bottom of these two beads.
pick up two more beads and go down through the next column as before, and up through the next.
repeat these two steps from the * to the end. do your step up as before so the thread is coming out of the top of the last column.
now you will have a thread bridge between each bead along the top!
we have to make this end match the other end, so for our first row of brick stitch, we're going to make it 2 beads high, and do an increase so that it's 6 beads wide.
pick up 4 