On 18 Apr 2004, at 05:27, Weronika Patena wrote:
I've seen beads in wire jewelry pieces, and I tried to put some on my
linen pieces - is this sort of thing done at all, or am I committing
sacrilege of some sort? ;-)
Of course not. If you want beads in your lace put them there.
And how do you do it, for either wire or linen? I tried putting them
on
a pair in the same way that's used for sewings, but then of course I
have thread on the sides. I tried adding a single bobbin with beads on
it to the normal bobbins and moving it around the pattern to where I
want the beads to be, but it's hard to do if I want beads in different
sections of the lace which are made about at the same time - hard to
get
the bead bobbin across to them. Are there any good methods for this?
The usual way of adding beads to BL is with a sewing. You either need
a crochet hook fine enough to pass through the hole in the bead or you
can use a lazy susan. Either way, when you get to where you want the
bead to go you pull a *pair* of threads through the bead and pass the
adjascent pair through the loop and tension. That works well if you
want the bead to be at a pinhole - if you want it to be in the middle
of an area of cloth or half stitch you would use two single adjascent
passive threads.
Brenda
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/paternoster/
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