> Hi Alison I did a beaded lace workshop at Lace Guild convention four years ago - there's a picture of my sample at http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/lace/arachne/convention2006.htm and would you know the sample is actually right beside my computer as I type. I was having a tidy up a few days ago, found it at the bottom of a box and it's not gone back yet!
We tried a variety of techniques. IIRC the seed beads which act as picots and those in the cloth stitch were threaded onto passives before winding the bobbins and pushed up into position as and when required. The bugles either side were threaded onto one of the worker threads. The big crystals were added with a crochet hook as you describe but the seed beads either side of them were more of those threaded onto the passives. The beads around the spiders were threaded onto a gimp thread (actually the same thread as all the others) and pushed up into position as the gimp was threaded between the pairs. The bugle over the cloth stitch I remember was very fiddly to do, but I'm not sure how it was achieved as it seems to cover about 3 rows of cloth stitch. It may have been that a passive thread loop was pulled through the bead with a hook, a couple more rows of cloth stitch worked and then the same or a different passive passed through the loop and the whole lot somehow tensioned. The beads at the bottom of the tassle were just tied with a reef knot and cut off. > > > I've been playing about over the last few weeks with different shaped motifs > in bobbin lace. Having found one that I liked I decided to make it again and > add some beads. I put these on using a crochet hook and drawing one thread of > a pair through the bead and threading the other bobbin through the loop as in > a sewing. 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? Brenda in Allhallows [email protected] http://paternoster.orpheusweb.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]
