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<[email protected]>, "Gray,
Alison J" <[email protected]> writes
Of course, when I took the lace off the pillow the beads were now
on the 'wrong' side of the lace. I have been wondering, is there a way to put
beads on a piece of lace so that they end up on the 'right' side of the lace
without sewing them on afterwards?
I had this problem with Giles (my dog bookmark) and ended up either
pushing the beads through to the other side, or, as Clay said, accepting
that wrong way up was to be the right side!
In the jewellery pieces I've been doing recently, I've threaded the
beads onto the threads at the time of winding the bobbins, and slid them
into place when needed. With only using a few pairs, and beads on each
thread, you can do this easily. In a larger piece, you need to plan
carefully. From your pattern, if you enlarge a photocopy, can you draw
in the thread paths so that you can work out which threads will need to
carry the beads? Using a different coloured pencil crayon for each pair
will help you see which thread is going where - not always easy if you
do it all in one colour! You then need to think carefully about how many
twists you will put on the worker at the end of a row of half stitch,
(ie whether or not the worker remains as such, or swaps with a passive)
which ground stitches you are using, and any other factors that affect
the thread path.
If the motif is small, without a lot of thread on the bobbins, or only a
few beads are to be added in the piece, you could unwind, thread a bead
on and rewind, but that would be tedious!
--
Jane Partridge
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