That's just one way to add beads and would take the place of a ground
stitch/pin hole.
Earlier this year at Lace Guild Convention I did a taster workshop on
adding beads to BL. Go to
http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2006.htm
scroll to the bottom of the page and you'll see my sampler.
At the top (left) the beads were threaded onto the passives and pushed
up randomly as required. The bugle beads that look like ears were
pre-threaded onto a worker and pushed up as required.
IIRC the large crystals were added with a hook, as per Jean's
instructions on the Lace Guild website and the seed beads either side
were threaded as before, also the beads either side of the spider and
along the sides of the lace.
There's a gimp going around the spider and the cloth stitch which
doesn't show too well because I used clear beads, but it's the same
thread as the rest of the lace with beads pre-threaded and pushed up
into place, one between each pair.
The bugle bead over the cloth stitch was tricky to do; it required
pulling a long loop of passive thread through the bead with a crochet
hook and pinning that loop back, working down a few rows and then
passing the partner passive through the loop and tensioning!
Because we had threaded beads onto all the passives and there were
still some threaded at the end of the work I just tied them with reef
knots and cut off close for the tassel.
I used a linen thread (Goldschild Nel 40/3, Nm 66/3) and I'm glad I did
because it has so much more 'body' than the samples made with cotton
had.
Brenda
On 29 Nov 2006, at 14:01, Helen Ward wrote:
Lenore, if you go to the Lace Guild's website
http://www.laceguild.demon.co.uk/
then go to Young Lacemakers, under Techniques there is "Adding a
Bead". Don't know if this will help or not. As I'm *very* new to
lacemaking - will be a while before I get to that stage - I don't know
if there are other methods or not, although I assume there would be.
This way sounds pretty easy and straight forward.
Helen in OZ, where we had 104F (40C) today, and it's 78F (26C) now at
midnight!
>
Pene, Your icicles sound beautiful, especially the one with little
beads in the honeycomb diamonds.
Can you tell me how you plan to add the beads to your bobbin lace? Do
you add the beads to one pair, or do you add the beads as you work?
Lenore in Michigan
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