Now -- Your favorite spangling tips, please.
After spending many happy hours trying to match beads to some pretty
bobbins with painted stripes across their middles, this would be my advice:
- Pretty bobbins are good but so are bobbins that are practical.
- After threading beads on the wire, loosely loop it onto the bobbin
and then check the weight/feel of it in your hand. Because I often use
small old necklace pendants, I have this horrible habit of mixing a very
heavy pendant with a very light bobbin.
- I find that I can have sticky-out bits on my spangles if they'll fold
over into the rest of the spangle when I try to do a sewing-in.
- I may be an anal-retentive freak ;-) but all of the bobbins I use on
any section must have the same sort of weight in my hands. All light is
fine, all heavy is fine but I don't like mixing them.
Basically, if you're anything like me and get distracted by playing iwth
the pretty coloured beads, remember that there's a point to what you're
doing!
Helen in Dorset
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